Imports such as The Bridge, Spiral and Borgen mean we're all familiar with keeping an eye on the subtitles.
Meanwhile in London, you enter Ministry of Sound on a Friday night after panicking about the number of exits at the Elephant and Castle underground, spend £16 on two drinks in shallow tumblers at the bar, and search for familiar faces – keeping a firm grip on your belongings because you've read the crime rates.
Often, these fears will bind them to their old, familiar ways, keeping them from discovering new activities and hobbies they may enjoy.
In the negotiation process, Schwarzenegger employed his familiar tactic of keeping legislators off balance.
This is a familiar programme, and keeping to it will be difficult.
And Mr Mitchell, despite a fondness for New Labourisms (in the speech he praised DfID as a "key, joined-up, integrated department") makes a competent, if familiar, case for keeping the levels up: it is right to help the weak, and often surprisingly cheap.
After a storming end to the last season, with all the doors blown off ready for a change in format to come storming in, there was evidence in this first episode of a big picture plotline – but also the same old familiar work of keeping the Dollhouse in business.
Nearly all states require a prescribing vet to be familiar with the keeping and care of animals by a client, even if they don't require a visit for each prescription.
And although it's doubtful that anyone trusts a major retail chain that much more than Amazon.fr, there is something to be said for keeping familiar brands alive.
Heartbeat(s) is a name that will be familiar to anyone keeping up with our IMPRINTS series as one of the principals behind ASL Singles Club.
