Vietnam has versions of these game shows which are done on sets that look just like what they look like in America.
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• The Price is Right
• Pyramid
• Wheel of Fortune
They don't have Jeopardy.
The most popular dramas on Vietnamese TV are Korean soap operas. They are "dubbed" into Vietnamese by one voice actor, usually a woman. She reads, really, not acts. She reads for all the characters in the show, including men.
Vietnam has a number of its own movies on TV, mostly made for TV. Current topics usually involve the Internet chat rooms, sex, and pregnancy (in one movie!)
There are three networks. The main studios are in Hanoi. Some shows are made in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).
http://vtv.vn/
Cable TV is found in hotels. Most Vietnamese can't afford it in their homes. Sony has a cable channel which shows all the popular American shows, usually the same week they are shown in the States. There is also ESPN, National Geographic, Discovery, and so forth. MTV comes from Jakarta, Indonesia, and has subtitles in Bahasa Indonesia. There are also two channels from China. I appreciate what they do when they don't know what else to show: Tom and Jerry cartoons. I now know why when I talk to people from China, they mention Tom and Jerry. It has to be the most popular show in China. They are shown without any subtitles, extra narration, or anything else to get in the way.
One thing you don't see on Vietnamese TV is infomercials. You see lots of commercials. Some are the same commercials you see here in America. But when I told people that on American TV they have 30 minute commercials on TV in the middle of the night, the reply was, "They sure are greedy, aren't they?" (Actually, it's that way in Singapore, too!)
Vietnamese TV has the same color and channel system they used to use in the Soviet Union (Systems D & K, SECAM color). I have a tiny portable rechargeable TV set/DVD player that only works with NTSC and PAL systems, so it didn't work there. I couldn't even run the movies on the DVD player through the TV as I could in Singapore.
I still used it for watching videos at night. Most of the DVDs sold in Vietnamese video stores are NTSC.
