I always recommend to watch movies instead of just TV. the reason behind it is explained as follows:
Imagine you decide to watch a movie and rent a dvd for the weekend of your favorite star and in your language. At home you start the DVD and at that moment you turn down completely the volume of the Tv set. So you "watch" the movie without any sound.
At the end of the movie, would you have understood anything from that movie?
of course you would, but not completely nor accurately.
Same thing happens with a movie that is not in your native language.
With the latter, the difference is that if you have the sound on, you will hear "blah blah blah" without understanding much at all, but since your mind is "catching" the action of the movie, soon you start discerning the sound in the other language... etc.
Moral: watch a movie that you really like in the language you want to learn, over and over until you have no problems understanding the words etc...
Ah, no subtitling, as that's is cheating and you expose yourself to bad translations.
