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Germany dubs everything. Unless you invest in Sky, the German television broadcasters don't even bother broadcasting the original language as an alternative tone, which I assume over cable isn't a massive extra expense. Only Arté bothers to do so in both German and French.

German home made programmes are also particularly dire. Their long running police drama series Tartort is their single saving grace.

Tatort (German for "the scene of the crime") is particularly interesting in that each one of ARD's regional broadcasters contributes some number of episodes to the pool. Considering that Germany is a very regional country, it's a good way to get a survey of accents and local word usage.

In the past only some kids shows were dubbed but even the cartoons for the most part had subtitles. Today it's a bit different.

Not here in Portugal - only shows for children are dubbed.

But only recently.

I learned a lot of English just watching Cartoon Network (undubbed and unsubbed)!