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...Making it their own, in fact, is the newest trend catching on among U.S. television studios trying to find new ways to push their programming in foreign markets. From local music tie-ins like Larage's to new versions of American hits produced overseas with local casts, studios are thinking globally but acting locally...
...bonanza for studios, which count on sales to international markets to recoup the high cost of producing episodic television at home. In the 1990s Sony Television International pioneered reversioning with local productions of hits such as Married With Children and The Nanny as a way to counter a trend of scheduling U.S. shows in undesirable time slots far away from primetime. Today, Sony is expanding its productions throughout the world in markets as culturally different as Russia and China. "We want to provide a full array of product as each programmer looks for solutions in a very competitive marketplace," says...
There are various explanations for this trend, from the skill of evangelicals in marketing religion to the charisma of their leaders. But their success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause. Each day, it seems, thousands of Americans are going about their daily rounds - dropping off the kids at school, driving to the office, flying to a business meeting, shopping at the mall, trying to stay on their diets - and coming to the realization that something is missing. They are deciding that their work, their possessions...
...country-music world seems pretty conservative and Republican, but you've bucked that trend...
...risk of sounding like one of those smugly insipid moralists who extrapolate from isolated incidents a widespread societal malaise, these two cases signify a worrying trend of moral abdication. The alcoholism excuse is a way of denying human agency, of viewing sin not as a choice, but as a pathology...