Small screen: reality TV gets oriental twist in Turkey
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ISTANBUL, Sept 14 (Reuters Life!) - Turkey has its own   version of "Pop Idol" which produces stars overnight -- a   belly-dancing competition with text-message voting which has   stormed to the top of Saturday night ratings.
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As Turkey gets a former Islamist as president, writer Elif Shafak says women's bodies are a battleground for competing national ideas.
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For the moment at least, the antistrike strategy of replacing scripted entertainment with so-called reality series seems inspired.
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Turkey's Calik Holding is talking to  foreign media companies about selling part of newly acquired  ATV-Sabah, sources familiar with the situation said, as Ankara  plans raising a foreign-ownership limit in the sector.
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In the world of bug-eating, bungee-jumping reality television, here's a twist: Christian missionaries living a travelogue life while viewers watch their aches, pains and trials trying to spread the Gospel.
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Three political parties are set to win seats in Turkey's new parliament, Turkish FOX television channel reported on Sunday as votes were being counted.
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China plans to let foreign companies take stakes in local television production companies, in a move giving international media companies better access to the world's biggest market.
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Prime-time TV seems more and more like a carnival. It's not so much a schedule of shows as, well, a sideshow hawking reality fare.
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Missy Elliott's reality show probably won't debut on UPN until sometime next year, but viewers can expect the program to be a candid glimpse into what it's like to be Elliott and to try to make it in the music industry.
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Los Angeles Times - ISTANBUL, Turkey &#8212; Is Turkey this: a man in baggy pantaloons, farming as it has been done for generations to support a large family that includes four wives? Or is it this: a bustling business center where skyscrapers share the horizon with the spires of some of the world's most majestic mosques?
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As a travelogue and an exercise in improving foreign relations, the History Channelâs show on martial arts is charming and, despite its subject matter, harmless.
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It could be a scene from a reality TV show as a young Syrian entrepreneur pitches her team's plan for a wheelchair factory to a potential investor.
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HOSKOY, Turkey  - As harvest arrives, Cem Cetintas tends lovingly to his vines, hoping they yield wine popular with foreign palates to boost his exports in the face of a harsh climate in the Turkish market.
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Politically charged drama, comedy, and reality fare is coming to network and cable TV.
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Television networks are learning a harsh lesson in reality -- too many reality shows are a turn-off for viewers.
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BUCHAREST, Romania -- Romanian television has an unlikely hit on its hands, a sitcom with a cast of racy characters who sit in a country pub and get laughs discussing the fine points of the bureaucracy and regulations of the European Union.
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NEW YORK | Just when it seemed that reality television was set to take over the dial, scripted shows have come roaring back - at least for now.