Where to watch the Oscars
0 Comments Published by Steven Friedman on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 12:39 PM.
Holland is basically a third world country when it comes to enthusiasm for - or even general interest in - large international (televised) showbiz-events, such as The Golden Globes, Emmys and of course The Academy Awards-ceremony.This may have something to do with our so-called Dutch calvinistic take on life (which sort of comes down to: be as normal and down-to-earth as you possibly can be - it translates very well to: boring as hell), but whatever it is; it bothers me because... well, as a film-geek and Oscar enthusiast, I want to watch that crazy Hollywood-baloney. And the fact is I'm not the only one like that over here.
Now this year's Academy Awards-ceremony actually will be shown live on a Dutch channel called Film1, but that's a subscription-only service (and I surely don't want to pay for a year's subscription just for the awards, I'm not that crazy), whereas the same show can be seen for free (on ABC) in the United States. Yeah, it's an unfair world sometimes. Then again, it's just the Oscars, right?
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