It's actually a bit of a bumper week for subtitle-friendly viewers.
I was braced for subtitles.
There is no need for subtitles on "The Bachelor: Rome".
For subtitles, to make them appear or disappear.
Later, one of his big campaigns would be for subtitling for TV programmes.
Why do they keep using white type for subtitles when it's so often impossible to read against bright backgrounds?
However, I hear there are plans for subtitles, or at least an accompanying glossary, when the film hits America.
In the 1990s, 20 million people in Britain used teletext at least once a week for subtitles, weather forecasts, flight information, football scores and suchlike.
Because of their heavy northern England accents, the women's conversation is so hard to decipher that you long for subtitles.
Pre-sound films were more universal, with no need for subtitles or dubbing – FW Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924) is so expressive that intertitles were unnecessary.
In this Belgian TV series, which occupied the slot that BBC4 likes to reserve for subtitled sleuths, thieves break into the vault of a dodgy private bank in Brussels and plunder 66 safe-deposit boxes.
