Read Time Out
Posted by Ali, Dubai, UAE on 2 August 2009 at 15:28 UAE time

It's going to be called Love In The City to get around local censorship problems.

Time Out already said this a long time ago.

Very interesting!!!!
Posted by Arjunng, Dubai, UAE on 2 August 2009 at 00:29 UAE time

I'm an expat......so be it....i'm gonna have a nice time to talk about this topic when i get home. Everyone does....I like the comments on this topic here in this forum.....but it really dosen't change anything and i know about it. Good going guys....Jai Ho Dubai!!!!!!!

Pleasant surprise
Posted by MOHAMMED KALEEMULLAH, DUBAI, U.A.E. on 1 August 2009 at 17:50 UAE time
A dare step by the authorities after all. Well done.

sex in the city
Posted by bewildered of dubai, dubai, u.a.e on 31 July 2009 at 22:28 UAE time

what a load of claptrap. Didnt they know the title before they agreed to the filming in the first place? If they are so concerned, just rename the episode, "sox in the city" or "Sucks in the City" Any objections??

To: Abdul M. Ismail
Posted by Nicola, Dubai, UAE on 31 July 2009 at 21:46 UAE time

Dear Abdul, I am a business owner and since almost ten years I employ people of 14 nationalities who belong to several different religions, therefore your etnicity doesn't influence me. Moreover my first language is not English but living in Dubai I had to improve it. Nevertheless my picking on "viry" wasn't intentional for insulting anyone, but implicitly underlining that a person who is not so at hand with english did judge a serial based on it's title which included the word "sex" rather than the film's scenes and contents. This is unacceptable as it would be unacceptable for me judging an arabic film based on its title. I have lived in Dubai for the last five years and in the GCC for the last eleven. Most of my friends are Arabs and I think I know how to live in respect of the local customs and low, and for this reason I have never had the slightest trouble. But I can assure you that when I hear anyone judging a film for its title I can't possibly answer with serious if not hilarious attitude.

If she had otherwise commented on the film scenes, agreed or disagreed, trust me I would have respected any outcome regardless of my thoughts on its contents.

Thanks for your comment and regards.

Nicola

To Abe
Posted by Bahraintaxi on 31 July 2009 at 17:41 UAE time

Abe, the capital of Thailand is BANGKOK not BANGCOCK! Freudian slip or what?

To John/Nicola
Posted by Abdul M. Ismail, Liverpool, UK on 31 July 2009 at 13:12 UAE time

Why is it that anywhere we go, we always seem to find condescending people who speak English as their frist or principal language ridiculing how those who speak broken English or English as a second language?

Was it that you didn't understand what Henni was talking about when Henni wrote "viry". I was born and educated in England and I understood what Henni meant without consideration. Is it really necessary to focus on Henni's spelling? A lot of English tourists visit foreign countries mocking how the locals speak. The same type of Brits mock people like me because of my ethnicity, even though I was born and educated in the UK. It's seems as though this group have found there way to the UAE as well but a far more appropriate location to reside would be on the Costa del Sol where you can walk around without nothing apart from your Union Jack boxer shorts, a beer in one hand and a bag of chips in the other.

As for Henni's taste. Mr. Bean? The Hoff? Oh my God! Bean was very popular in the US but Rowan Atkinson's "Johnny English" character was so much better. The Hoff only seems to have fans in Germany where his music career. I can't say much for his acting (although I admit I loved Knight Rider when I was a teenager)!

joke
Posted by HD on 31 July 2009 at 12:53 UAE time

I neither dislike nor like sex in the city. But having moved here myself years back because of the media and production business here, it does anger me very much that they cant make up their minds. If you are going to announce the launching of all these studios, and emphasizing how much you want international production firms to invest here, this is clearly the dumbest move one could make. Now im not saying let companies film XXX films here, but at the end of the day when a production company is going to invest in somewhere, they dont have the luxury of estimating which films they will be aloud to film somewhere and which ones they wont.
Add this to the list of things the world is laughing at us for.

Before you agree with the move comment on my point, let mention that I am also middle eastern and by no means am i stating that the UAE must be open, and moderate and so on on every level.

But they do need to seriously stop contradicting themselves in everything they do. Either let standard films be filmed here or dont go after big companies.

It really makes me angry that showtime arabia can show nudity, un edited series and films, yet ''sex and the city'' cant be filmed here because of its title. People around the world have very good reason to laugh at us. I am.

Shhh in the City
Posted by geg, manama on 31 July 2009 at 12:53 UAE time

'Never watched a single episode all the way through or copped the film; probably because the word 'sex' in it biases my opinion immediately, regardless of my own hypocrisy of being happy to jump the bones of many a Hollywood actress, no worries! So for Dubai to react like this is predictable as annoying as the logic can be I guess, like nobody fornicates in the Emirates.
In the early 80 we tried to bring a very famous jazz band to Bahrain, but at the very last minute and financially devastating, when 'someone' saw the name, they banned it and nothing would convince them otherwise if we did not change it - and even then the seed was sowed. It was simply a modern 'jazz sextet'.
As for 'Shhh in the City' being one of those 'you have to get into it' series, I assume, I found the bits I've seen none too great in the acting department and beyond Kyle XY credibility. Now Desperate Housewives! That is 'viry viry fanny'. As is Boston Legal, Monk and the other brilliance out there,

Changes happens!
Posted by Nicola, Dubai, UAE on 31 July 2009 at 11:48 UAE time

Maybe when "viry viry funny" will become "very very funny" also these kind of decisions will be revised. Dubai in a few years has achieved unbelievable progress. I am of the opinion that not so late these kind of decisions will change as it happened in the past.