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Do Poles watch Turkish soaps? [6]
Isaura The Slavegirl was shown late at night on Channel 4 in the UK when the station first started in the 80s; nobody really watched it there, except for novelty value, since there isn't any need for dubbed soaps when there's such a quantity of low quality output from Australia to keep small minds absorbed in pap. Sometimes the UK shows American ones on the minor channels, however most of theirs are usually too poor quality even for daytime cable TV channels with a handful of viewers.
As I recall, it was hugely popular in Russia a couple of decades ago. There was a scandal about the show because in the original nineteenth century novel (actually worth reading, as are Guimaraes other novel, The Seminarist and his poem The Origin of Menstruation), the character was black however the TV version unfortunately changed the character to a white woman.
Turkish ones seem a step too far in Poland and I'd doubt that any of those Egyptian ones would be popular. It's amazing that they show the grim South American ones; I wonder what the viewing figures are.
