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flecha57

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This is not a discussion on the programme itself as one does in the TV programmes section. Just to say I saw this programme last night for first time and quite enjoyed it. Obviously American directed and made with possible playing up to the "cute Brit" factor, etc.

Anyhow my query is - as I'm profoundly Deaf and rely on the subtitles 100% I have no way of hearing the actors speak thus don't get their accents most of the time, I'd like to know is/are everybody in this series British?

If everybody in it is British would they show it in the USA as they might not understand the UK police terminology ("CSA" for example) and probably giggle over the wigs and gowns used in the High Court plus the "M'lud" lingo? Imagine that attire in the US courts!
 
I wish they would show it in the US but they have no plans on showing it here.

Probably because they think we won't understand the UK terminology.

But then again they show MI-5 over here (Think it's called "Spooks" over there) so I dunno.
 
that's odd cos it's directed by Dick Wolf the same guy who does the U.S. ones.
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If shown in the U.S. would be good for mutual anglo U.S./U.K. relations!
 
Everyone in the series is British.

I have to say I don't like it and didn't watch it this week.

I don't know if they will show it in the US.
 
The whole cast is British and the scripts are based on American episodes but changed slightly to comply to the British legal system. Dick Wolfe oversees the UK production to make sure it sticks to the same rules as the US versions.

My source at the Beeb say it is making it's US debut October on BBC America.

EDIT: Press release now on BBC America site.

This October, BBC AMERICA brings 26 episodes of the hit show Law & Order: UK home to the U.S. Based on Emmy award-winning producer Dick Wolf
 
Better show than I expected it to be when I first heard they were making it, but I'd be interested to see how well it did if they started writing original scripts.
 
I think this is a pale imitation of the US series.

When last night the "forensick" (my description of the nauseating continued obsession of crime shows with this element of detection) expert said;
..... they'd found the bullet in a tree a hundred yards away (uh?)

....and matched it with the missing gun (uh?)

...and that from the trajectory, the wound could only have been self-inflicted (uh?)

I deleted my recording of the programme.
 
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