I can recommend tv series 家有儿女！It's hilarious! + They speak "very-understandable-for-foreigners" Putonghua and often use the most common colloquial idioms. As a bonus all the episodes are subbed, so you'll be able to look up any unnown word in a dictionary. http://www.tudou.com/playlist/id/2961582/ Good luck with your studies! ;)

well, personally i think ud better start from watching some interesting chinese cartoon shows, like 大头儿子小头爸爸， 舒克贝塔，葫芦娃，齐天大圣，and so on, the common tv show would be a lil bit hard for you to understand...because they speak quite fast..:P bean

strongly recommend--"THE WARLORD","ASSEMBLY",..

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the movie :＜＜大腕＞＞　＜＜甲方乙方＞＞　＜＜　不见不散＞＞ not only learning Chinese but also have fun.