Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:46pm IST
By Marc Frank
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will air the award winning U.S. television drama
the Sopranos and ongoing series Grey's Anatomy beginning this week, the
Communist youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde, said on Sunday.
HBO's The Sopranos depicts the life of a New Jersey Mafia boss and his
family and will be broadcast by state-run television Tuesday evenings,
while ABC's Grey's Anatomy, which follows the lives of doctors working
in a hospital, will be broadcast on Thursdays.
Juventud Rebelde said the new offer demonstrated the state television's
"proven rigor in the selection of dramas of high ethical quality and
powerful presentation."
Despite Communist Cuba's 50 year ideological confrontation with the
United States, its nemeses's movies, music and television programs
remain wildly popular and U.S. movies dominate the television and
theater offer.
The Sopranos, which concluded in 2007, and Grey's Anatomy are not the
first U.S. television series to be picked up on DVDS, brought to Cuba
and broadcast.
House, Friends, and Everybody Loves Raymond have entered Cubans' living
rooms, and the forensic series CSI is a huge hit on the Caribbean island
where programming is weighted heavily toward educational, variety and
children's programming, propaganda, Latin American and Cuban soap operas
and sports.
Cuba has four national television channels and various provincial
stations, all government operated. Satellite television is prohibited
and a cable system provides some international channels, such as CNN, to
the tourism industry and foreigners.
http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-33138620080420
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