He was quite well known in England. Fry and Laurie, Blackadder, etc.
The one that gets me is Dominic West. I saw him in The Wire first, and every time after I’m like “that’s a decent English accent he’s doing there. Oh wait.”
I suspect I’m going to be the same with Shiv and Tom from Succession.
Nah, blackadder didn’t really reach household name status here. About the only british shows that’re at that level are dr who and Monty Python. Fawlty towers, abfab, red dwarf, blackadder and others tend to be more niche. Hell, we had versions of shameless, the office, and queer as folk, and people don’t really realize they are copies (with varying degrees of similarity to the originals).
I can’t recall if blackadder was even on BBC America or not, but I don’t recall seeing it on there back when we had cable.
I think PBS, or some channel ( Maybe TCM? Can’t remember.) would show it along with the others and Are You Being Served. My grandfather and I used to watch them together all time.
As a proud Mancunian I refuse to watch the US version. You can’t take Manchester out of Shameless!! Pretty much all the characters in Shameless go one-for-one to members of my family.
Tbh though, I was super doubtful I would like it at all, having loved the original. And the US version did lose some in translation. But it was, until the last season or so, a good show on its own, despite being not the same thing at heart. I don’t think a show line the US shameless would translate well if it had been the original, though. Both are pretty vivid snapshots of the places they’re set in, which is the way that the US version succeeded. You ever meet people from that area, you’ll hear stories like on the show.
I’ve got family up there in middle yankee land that aren’t so far off from some of the American Frank’ kids.
Not gonna lie though, the original did make me decide to make sure I was never, ever gong to go to Manchester lol.
I still remember watching an interview with him only after watching the entire series and how mind blowing it was to me that he was English.
He was quite well known in England. Fry and Laurie, Blackadder, etc.
The one that gets me is Dominic West. I saw him in The Wire first, and every time after I’m like “that’s a decent English accent he’s doing there. Oh wait.”
I suspect I’m going to be the same with Shiv and Tom from Succession.
Wasn’t he well known in the US before House? I mean… Blackadder?
Nah, blackadder didn’t really reach household name status here. About the only british shows that’re at that level are dr who and Monty Python. Fawlty towers, abfab, red dwarf, blackadder and others tend to be more niche. Hell, we had versions of shameless, the office, and queer as folk, and people don’t really realize they are copies (with varying degrees of similarity to the originals).
I can’t recall if blackadder was even on BBC America or not, but I don’t recall seeing it on there back when we had cable.
I think PBS, or some channel ( Maybe TCM? Can’t remember.) would show it along with the others and Are You Being Served. My grandfather and I used to watch them together all time.
As a proud Mancunian I refuse to watch the US version. You can’t take Manchester out of Shameless!! Pretty much all the characters in Shameless go one-for-one to members of my family.
I’ve heard that before.
Tbh though, I was super doubtful I would like it at all, having loved the original. And the US version did lose some in translation. But it was, until the last season or so, a good show on its own, despite being not the same thing at heart. I don’t think a show line the US shameless would translate well if it had been the original, though. Both are pretty vivid snapshots of the places they’re set in, which is the way that the US version succeeded. You ever meet people from that area, you’ll hear stories like on the show.
I’ve got family up there in middle yankee land that aren’t so far off from some of the American Frank’ kids.
Not gonna lie though, the original did make me decide to make sure I was never, ever gong to go to Manchester lol.
Jeeves and Wooster ftw
Fry and Laurie is good too
I had heard/read that his commitment to the cain limp walk fucked up his gait in real life and caused him some issues lol. How awful