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Title: I learned the accent from TV. Post by: Flangepart on September 24, 2014, 01:00:20 PM British, that is.
I grew up, and still live in Columbus, Ohio. I saw a LOT of British TV. Whoda thunkit? Lets see... SECRET AGENT. UFO. SPACE 1999. MY PARTNER THE GHOST. DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE. DR. WHO. (Tom Baker) THE AVENGERS. THE PROTECTORS. THE SAINT. MONTY PYTHON. THE PRISONER. Those are the ones I'm certain of. What shows did you guys see, and how did they colour your view of the folks across the pond? Btw, The computer thinks the Brit spelling of Color is a mistake. Bloody colonial... Title: Re: I learned the accent from TV. Post by: JaseSF on September 24, 2014, 04:59:07 PM Me, I own and/or have watched a lot of the following:
Doctor Who The Prisoner The Avengers UFO Thunderbirds Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons Space: 1999 The Saint Are You Being Served? Keeping Up Appearances My Family Red Dwarf Danger Man Coronation Street Fawlty Towers The New Avengers Rising Damp The Omega Factor The Young Ones One Foot in the Grave Mr. Bean 2point4 Children Bottom As Time Goes By Title: Re: I learned the accent from TV. Post by: Flangepart on September 24, 2014, 05:45:15 PM Ya know, the theme from DANGER MAN - Secret Agent is how I saw it here in the US, with the Johnny Rivers theme song...is really cool. You could hear it in the end credits of the show, as they left it alone.
Ever notice how 'Harpsicord heavy' most Brit. TV themes were then? Title: Re: I learned the accent from TV. Post by: Rev. Powell on September 25, 2014, 10:16:33 AM Monty Python was mainly how I learned to do a British accent (such as it is). They exaggerated that Cockney accent so much that it was easy to mimic.
"Benny Hill" was another show I watched as a youngster. (I confess, it was pretty much entirely for "Hill's Angels.") Title: Re: I learned the accent from TV. Post by: JaseSF on September 25, 2014, 04:23:50 PM Are You Being Served? is where I first learned about cockney accents...
I instantly took a liking in my teenage years to The Young Ones and Red Dwarf...and eventually I discovered old episodes of Doctor Who playing on Space: the Imagination Station...and my interest in British shows just grew and grew...my parents actually find British English hard to understand...I suspect they'd find our Newfie slang even more confusing... Title: Re: I learned the accent from TV. Post by: Jack on September 26, 2014, 07:24:33 AM I watched a lot of the same stuff on Jase's list:
Doctor Who The Prisoner The Avengers UFO Space: 1999 The Saint Are You Being Served? Keeping Up Appearances Red Dwarf Fawlty Towers The New Avengers The Young Ones Along with a few others like: Last of the Summer Wine Agatha Christie: Poirot Top Gear Monty Python Benny Hill Sherlock Holmes (the Jeremy Brett ones) The Protectors The Vicar of Dibley May to December Prisoner: Cell Block H I always enjoyed the good characters and their love of sci-fi. Their sense of humor seems to come in two flavors: extremely funny and extremely not. Title: Re: I learned the accent from TV. Post by: Flangepart on September 26, 2014, 08:11:45 AM I always enjoyed the good characters and their love of sci-fi. Their sense of humor seems to come in two flavors: extremely funny and extremely not. THE GOON SHOW id an examples of 'Ain't gettin' it.' And Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan can't get through to me. Yet some stuff is murder on the funny bone. The best part of BLACKADDER is the way Rowan Atkinson does snide. P.S. My first image of Hugh Laurie is as Percy the twit in series...three? The one with the weird Queen...who is Craig Ferguson's Ex. Title: Re: I learned the accent from TV. Post by: JaseSF on September 26, 2014, 05:00:31 PM I've watched some Monty Python, Benny Hill too and The Two Ronnies was a favourite of my parents when I was just a kid so I saw a lot of that....watched Vicar of Dibley a few times as well.
Title: Re: I learned the accent from TV. Post by: Sitting Duck on September 27, 2014, 06:09:45 AM My first image of Hugh Laurie is as Percy the twit in series...three? The one with the weird Queen...who is Craig Ferguson's Ex. Hugh Laurie's first recurring role in Black Adder was as George IV in the third series. Miranda Richardson was Queen Elizabeth in the second series. My first introduction to Hugh Laurie as a comic actor was the ITV series Jeeves and Wooster (with Laurie as the latter). Both he and Stephen Fry managed to capture the characters so perfectly that I was willing to forgive some of the liberties taken with the source material (at least until the Charlie Foxtrot that was the fourth season). Title: Re: I learned the accent from TV. Post by: Josso on September 29, 2014, 10:46:15 AM We still have a lot of good comedy over here still. I will compile a big list of shows at some point which I think are notable. It's very different to the US in the fact that for your average sitcom you get 6 episodes then 1-2 years to wait for the next season, oh and you see the same actors in everything :teddyr:
Also The Prisoner is one of my favourite shows ever. I have a danger man boxset that I have been meaning to get through as well. |