BS: Separated by a common language

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: GUEST,Ingrid the Crafty
Date: 12 Mar 09 - 01:13 AM

Are you referring to the different meanings we seem to have for the same words? Like Randy? In America its a boys name, in England its his condition.

Ingrid

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Mar 09 - 12:29 AM

John, I think this thread got off on the wrong foot. People at mudcat mostly do not watch Oprah.
I remember that long ago there was a Kilroy (was here), but I know nothing of the show.

I watch British mysteries and suspense, I find them very good. Some of the older dramatic shows, like Jewel in the Crown, Brideshead Revisited, The Le Carre spy dramas, Upstairs,Downstairs, I consider classics of television, and I have bought DVDs of some.
As Time Goes By I consider excellent; perhaps I will buy the DVDs.
There are other series that I could watch again.

The "Eastenders," running on a BBC-Canada cable channel, doesn't hold my interest. Perhaps it is this type of situation drama that doesn't appeal in USA-Canada.

On the U. S. side, I watch almost none of the current shows. The old U. S.-produced westerns I liked very much. U. S. comedy, as far as I am concerned, has died. Where is a Ralph Cramden, Burns and Gracie Allen and other greats of earlier television?   I don't like the late night shows. Leno leaves me cold.

Graham Norton is sometimes good, but I don't go out of my way to watch. We get two cable "BBC" channels (plus BBCNews), but the selection of English shows is not very good.

I am a poor one to get comment from; I almost never watch anything on the regular TV channels except some sports, and some news and comment shows (mostly PBS and BBCNews).

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: artbrooks
Date: 12 Mar 09 - 12:26 AM

I see Oprah on the cover of tabloids occasionally - usually something about her weight gain or loss. I can't say that I've ever seen her TV show. Does she endorse books?

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: GUEST,marks (on the road)
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 10:54 PM

We watch Okra in our garden every year. It really grows well. All it takes is//////////er//////////never mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 10:35 PM

'various UK attempts at Oprah style TV programmes fail miserably.'

I don't know what to respond to this, because I've never watched Oprah, and not one person I know, either friend, family or acquaintance, has ever mentioned watching Oprah.

In my doctor's office, there is usually a TV going, and rarely does anybody look at it. (I see the same thing in airports.) In fact, people are usually at the other end of the waiting room from the TV.

I suspect there are only about 1000 people left in America who actually watch TV.

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 10:14 PM

I don't know quite what you mean by "Oprah style". What do you consider to be unique about her style that differs from British chat shows? There are some successful British talk shows, aren't there? What about Graham Norton? (I get him on BBC America, a cable network, Sunday evenings.) Sure, he's not much like Oprah, but every chat show is different, according to the personality of the host. Is there an American style that differs from the British style?

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 10:05 PM

Press 'one' for English....

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 10:03 PM

Did the 10-year-old boy have to jump off the lifeboat to save his skin? Or his ....

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 09:54 PM

You can't possibly be suggesting that the joke about the priest, the rabbi, and the ten year old boy in a lifeboat wasn' funny. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: Peace
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 09:46 PM

LOL

Good one, Q.

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 09:45 PM

Peace, you don't read the books on Oprah's list?

Subject: RE: BS: Separated by a common language
From: Peace
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 09:30 PM

About what?






























I HAD to do that.

Subject: BS: Separated by a common language
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 09:01 PM

The more I look at the threads by Mudcatters from different sides of the pond, the more amazed I am that we are bothe members of the same species.
We laugh at different things [mostly] we are offended by different things.
Maybe that's why all the various UK attempts at Oprah style TV programmes fail miserably. Certainly Kilroy was a disaster, and there have been others, which were so forgetable, I can't remember their names, even to hold them up to ridicule.
I'm not denigrating anybody, I'm just curious. What do others think?