Pedro Sánchez wrote:Suangi wrote:It's pretty simple. Aside from cultural humor/topical differences, a lot of british shows are filled with rather unattractive people. Filling a cast with less talented, better looking actors is a trade off that does quite well for ratings in the states. even concerning characters who are meant to be ugly, the US differentiates between tv ugly and plain ugly, whereas the UK not so much.
I think you mean normal looking people
are you trying to say normal british people are unattractive?
there is no such thing as "normal looking people." people look different all over the world, so "normal looking people" would be a stupid phrase to use. Normal, average, and typical are all very weak descriptive words concerning people.
now that i'm finished picking your comment apart, I should point out that you've missed my point (one with which you probably agree): the american entertainment industry and its consumers(viewers) hold an aesthetic standard that exceeds most cases of reality. Meeting this standard = profit. Not doing so = getting cancelled after 2 episodes. The american audience is very big [insert fat american joke here] and has a lot of money which it loves to spend. Producers know this, and tend to care a lot more about this fact than the Dove True Beauty Campaign. Often, the people who put these shows out in the US arent americans, but the show's original writers & producers who see the potential for $$$ in a vast new audience. I hope this answers JBoy's question too.
and, yes, the accents are sometimes part of it too. Not so much with something like the Vicar of Dibly (not remade to my knowledge) where everyone speaks clearly, but many americans have difficulty with the kind of accents/vocabulary in Shameless for example.
oh, and the US Office sucks.
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