On a suggestion from someone on the Crusader Kings forum, I watched the pilot episode of Magnificent Century. I was impressed; high production values and complex characters (at least in potential). Then I found the next episode online... and discovered that only the pilot had been captioned in English.
By this point, the show had either finished its run or was about to, and was wildly popular all over the former Ottoman world, being translated in almost a dozen languages, including CHINESE. Translation's hard even just for captioning; I couldn't do it, but if you can go from Turkish to Chinese, you can go from Turkish to English. If the studio had some grudge against the English language, I could respect that, but then the pilot wouldn't've been.
Years later, farting around on the internet, I discovered the news that the show had been picked up by an American network! And that network was... Telemundo Fox. So from Turkish to Spanish. And I'm just... come ON. Sharing cultural things like TV shows may seem unimportant, and I suppose in the grand scheme it IS unimportant, but it can give us a look into one another's cultures and make us see we're not really all that different after all.
We don't have Fred Rogers anymore, so we need every reminder of that fact that we can get.
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The situation in which languages it will be translated into is entirely dependent on demand. Since the Spanish are huge fans of Turkish TV series, most Turkish TV series are translated into Spanish anyway.
Yeah. I mean, with the possible exception of China, we're the biggest market in the world, and even if they ARE a little bigger, we're still huge. And yes, translation is work, but if you've got contacts with a translator who knows Chinese, you can do English; seems like quite the oversight to neglect the market. If no one else is doing it, then you've got it all to yourself...
everywhere I go (her yerde sen) Senden daha güzel Aşk yeniden Sen çal kapımı No:309 Kiralık aşk These are romantic comedies and seasonal TV series that usually do not last long.
Below are the drama ones *Yasal elma *Çocuk *Masumlar apartmanı *Medcezir *kardeşlerim *Söz *Mucize doktor *Kırmızı oda *Yalı çapkını *Aşkı memnu *Yaprak dökümü I'm going to write a few historical TV series now. Muhteşem yüzyıl Muhteşem yüzyıl:köşem Mehmet:bir cihan fatihi I wrote all their Turkish names, they have different names in English.
Heyyy, by the way started watching "you are everywhere " and it is fantastic and just finished one episode but those movies are in vacation list this November can't wait to continue watching them all, thanks a lot girl
A little information: The two leads in that series really fell in love with each other on the set while filming the series, and their relationship still continues.
Among them, I only watched Muhtesem Yuzyil. I knew Çukur, but I didn't watch it because I don't like mafia TV series, so I don't know about Kara Sevda either. I generally like summer TV series
Maybe some episodes or parts of episodes, but not a full eason. Swedish Television actually buys a lot of Turkish material, one show pere year it seems.
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