r/AskBalkans • u/Starfalloss Greece • 2d ago
Culture/Lifestyle The average morning show in Greece everyday: Is it similar in your country?
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u/Character_Hamster890 Turkiye 2d ago
In my country they solve murders, reveal sex scandals, find missing people.
I am serious.
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u/the-joatmon 1d ago
more interestingly, they solve the cases better than the police as they come to the studio and detain the guys.
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u/eferalgan Romania 1d ago
In the morning?
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u/Character_Hamster890 Turkiye 1d ago
Yeah, productivity is better in the morning.
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u/eferalgan Romania 1d ago
In Romania, in the mornings there are usually news on TV, plus some sort of entertainment like in this Greek example, but nowhere near of this scale
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u/beijee Greece 1d ago
What TV show you talking about bro?
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u/kalac77 Bosnia & Herzegovina 2d ago
Almost all the Blondies? So much Blondies in one place you cannot see even in Helsinki ...
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u/Novel-Mission-1920 1d ago
Statistically 80% of Finns are blonde, but watching Greek TV would make me think 90% of Greeks are blonde lol
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u/Beneficial_Iron3508 Turkiye 1d ago
Apparently, this is from 2000s. Fake blonde and blue contact lenses were pretty much every in Turkey around that time.
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u/BurazengijaTebric Serbia 2d ago
I was about to say no then it occurred to me that I haven't watched morning show or any morning program airing on domestic tv channels in Serbia for years.
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u/Vegetable_Radio3873 2d ago
Why all blondes? Inferiority complex?
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u/LettuceDrzgon Greece 2d ago
This is from the 2000s when we used to have a big inferiority complex over our coloring and blonde hair with blue eyes was being pushed everywhere. My dad has a colleague who had a whole conspiracy theory that they are intentionally pushing news anchors who don’t look Greek. It has died down a bit though. I am out of touch with the tv industry but in real life dark hair is being appreciated again.
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u/sjedinjenoStanje 🇺🇸 + 🇭🇷 2d ago
Same in the US: less Britney, more Kardashian.
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u/LettuceDrzgon Greece 2d ago edited 2d ago
I hate the Kardashians but their global fame did one good thing with the beauty standards in countries like Greece: they ended the super thin and blonde trend. Most Greek women are dark-haired and curvy and they look way better if they don’t mess with it. We used to own a second house before the Greek crisis back in the 2000s and we were renting it to a family whose daughter was a very thin (probably anorexic) fake blonde. I was a child back then and I remember her saying that she was trying to get rid of her butt. It stuck with me because I thought it was weird.
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u/Suitable-Decision-26 Bulgaria 1d ago
Thank God it is going away, Dark haired Greek women are among the most beautiful around imho. Especially when that "olive skin" comes to the equation, too.
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u/Starfalloss Greece 2d ago edited 2d ago
This shot is from the late 2000s where it was a trend for practically every woman to dye their hair blonde here lol. But tbh not much has changed as far as Greek TV is concerned.
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u/Stverghame Serbia 2d ago
I was about to ask if this is from the 2000s, because back then girls here were coloring their hair blond. Now they color it darkest possible black lol
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u/Starfalloss Greece 2d ago
Yeah idk what it was? Brittney effect? Idk lol but it’s still very common for women to dye their hair blonde here, but many also dye their hair jet black as well unlike say 10 years ago where literally everyone was blonde like in the video lel
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u/YummyCat49 Montenegro 2d ago
No. But its maybe a little bit weird since the intro is just a small sun moving around famous places
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u/Tasty-Thanks8802 1d ago
Its similar, the only diference is in my country they use old women , not young and hot .
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u/eferalgan Romania 1d ago
Greek friends, please help me find the name of a Greek singer. He is older, dresses in flashy clothes and sings fairly traditional Greek music I guess. Younger people tends to speak ironically of him mainly because of his flashy clothes. He is appearing in this sort of TV programs
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u/cosmicdicer Greece 1d ago
Do you mean Floriniotis, he's sadly gone, here one of his famous hits:
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u/eferalgan Romania 1d ago
Is either this guy or someone similar to him. There is another Greek artist similar to Floriniotis?
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u/cosmicdicer Greece 1d ago
No that I know of, he was one of a kind. Very flamboyant, dressed like a disco ball and that's exactly why he was like a cult figure, mocked and also adored. The song I posted, lyrics goes like "is there a problem that I'm an idol, no there's not"
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u/eferalgan Romania 1d ago
Thank you! I was playing some online games with some Greek players and some of the characters in the game had flashy, sparkling clothes; and they were saying that looks like this artist. Unfortunately I don’t remember the name of the artist that they were talking about, but they were fairly ironic about him and I was intrigued to search him and see what is all about.
Like I said is either Floriniotis or someone extremely similar (if that exists)
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u/cosmicdicer Greece 1d ago
If they make again same comment try by typing "pirazei pou ine firma, pirazei?" See what reaction you get
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u/1024thKilobyte 1d ago
I'm not sure about fairly traditional greek music, but Giorgos Mazonakis kinda fits the bill?
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u/Starfalloss Greece 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think I know exactly who you’re talking about lol: https://youtu.be/VSQ9aXYB7RI?si=OmErDyjf-LkzjMdB
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u/narisha_dogho Greece 1d ago
Giorgos Magkas? He is a clarinist, not a singer, though. Another one is Floriniotis, but he doesn't sing traditional.
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u/Hephaestus-Gossage 1d ago
It reminds me of one of those czech porn orgy apartment videos I'm absolutely never seen but only heard about.
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u/lajoiedeletre Turkiye 1d ago
There used to be similiar things i think this looks like Seda Sayan's programs lmao. Nowadays as someone else has also said they solve murders on morning television.
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u/SpyrosGatsouli Greece 1d ago
Man that was like 20 years ago! Surely Greek TV has outgrown that phase . /s
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u/Suitable-Decision-26 Bulgaria 1d ago
I f*ing hate this "PinkTV New Year's Eve Show" format and I am really glad it is not a thing in Bulgaria.
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u/Turbulent-Debate7661 Greece 1d ago
Who tf is thelksi?
Is this grigoris arnaoutoglou young? Wait is this from 2003?
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u/SnooPeppers7082 1d ago
Does anyone actually watch this 😳
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u/mtheofilos Greece 11h ago
This is the end or middle break of the show where someone sings and everyone dances, the actual content is usually gossip and interview of celebrities.
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u/South-Cantaloupe-814 Sweden 2d ago
So many fake blonde women. Every TV show had at least one blonde woman. I was too young back then and didn't know that people could change their hair color. I thought it was a rule for TV shows to have at least one blonde women and always wandering why my school doesn't have blonde girls.
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u/Reconquistaaaa Other 2d ago
Greeks be like: We’re not Balkan!1!1! But then also Greeks:
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u/Starfalloss Greece 1d ago
LMAO Greece is in many ways more “Balkan” than most Balkan countries tbh even if most of us deny it.
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u/Substratas Albania 1d ago
Damn this is so ratchet 😂
We used to have singers in the 90s / 2000s who were doing this kind of stuff but not anymore afaik. But this setting was more common in music videos rather than in morning shows. Here’s one. 🤣🤣🤣💀
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u/Wowstalker3169 1h ago
Exactly the same in Türkiye, now I wonder if we stole the concept from you guys 🤣🤣 basically they're all trashy and loud but God damn it is entertaining
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u/blumonste Turkiye 2d ago
Not very unlike in Turkey. The audience would be people who are at home and have nothing else to do.
I used to detest this type of TV programming but now I am at peace with it because I know there are people who watch these on TV.
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u/shm_stan Turkiye 2d ago
There were such programs in 2000s but after economic crisis and AKP went more authoritarian, overall theme changed from fun to drama. There isn't any such joyful programs.
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u/jaleach USA 1d ago
Hmm not quite lol. I wish it was!
There used to be a "fitness show" on ESPN in the mornings for years starting in the 1980s and running through the 1990s. The only fitness the certainly male audience got out of that show is better grip strength. The female fitness models were total smokeshows who engaged in lots of stretching, squatting, etc while wearing bikinis or extremely skin tight spandex shorts and sports bras.
Kiana Tom was the best model hands down. If I remember correctly, she's Chinese-Irish and it really worked out well for her genetically. She's hit the wall a bit now but back then it was probably difficult to find a more exotic looking gal on tv.
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u/ThrowRA_Modernity Cyprus 2d ago
Very interesting to see this 2000’s complex Greece had with looking more “European” after joining the EU and the euro. But then everybody wants to be blonde and blue wide because that’s what we believed Europeans were. Things have changed since then. And not for the better.
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u/papuci23 1d ago
No, that looks stupid :)) don’t you have other things you should worry about as a country!? It’s a circus in my country also ( Romania) but I don’t know why yours seems weirder. I send all my love to Greece very beautiful country and very gifted population with such a long history.
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u/Gullible-Voter 2d ago
With all fake blondes?
Maybe