Quote: WrongTale @ August 21 2009, 5:20 PM BSTI've started paying more attention to bad accents, say, in Frasier.
Daphne's "Manchester" accent is particularly odd , since John Mahoney (Marty) grew up in Manchester. I wonder what he thinks of it? So presumably they must have deliberately chosen her accent, knowing it to be wrong.
In fairness I don't suppose people from Barcelona were entirely convinced by Manuel's accent, and I understand the Khazaks had a problem with Borat.
Manchester is just a place a very long way away, and who in the US is going to care if the accent is not quite right, so long as it sounds foreign and is still intelligible.
Quote: Timbo @ August 21 2009, 7:04 PM BSTIn fairness I don't suppose people from Barcelona were entirely convinced by Manuel's accent,
I was just watching Agony (underrated!) and in the first episode of series three the pregnant Jane is looking for some pregnancy manual next to her husband who is lying on the bed half-unconscious. And she asks:
- Manual?
And the husband manages:
- Que?
I started shaking uncontrollably.
Hollywood is fantastic about butchering Russian accent. There is an episode in otherwise decent Cybill where she meets a supposedly Russian family, in which the family member are mixed up - the husband speaks pure Russian, and his wife talks back to him in either complete gibberish or some Yugoslavian language, and they seem to understand each other perfectly.
Moscow-on-Hudson was a good film, but ruined by the fact that the pair of main characters were supposedly both Russians, but one of them spoke good Russian (he was an emigrant actor), and the other was Robin Williams.
But I guess this post can be deleted as being offtopic.
This show is terribly unfunny.
Boring tired jokes galore with waited talent.
Quote: Ian Wolf @ August 21 2009, 3:47 PM BSTI'm glad to see this show has been axed. While there were some moments I did not feel it deserved it.
Yeah it always cheers me up to hear people are out of work too. Sometimes if I need a real pick me up I go down to the dole office with a sandwich and a thermos.
Quote: Marc P @ August 22 2009, 8:24 AM BSTYeah it always cheers me up to hear people are out of work too. Sometimes if I need a real pick me up I go down to the dole office with a sandwich and a thermos.
Out of work? They're successful actors and comedians (well, not entirely successful as the axing of the show proves) but they're not on the doll (see Matt Lucas returning to Shooting Stars). I just think it was a bad show and it deserved to go.
There are not just actors involved in a show. Ahem. I just don't see 'glad' as appropriate in these times. Not bothered is fine. After all nobody makes anybody watch anything. But I don't take any pleasure in something being axed because of co funding being withdrawn. And yes Matt Lucas is pretty successful, but what work is lined up for the others? For the record I am not being biased I absolutely loved the show.
Quote: Marc P @ August 22 2009, 8:48 AM BSTThere are not just actors involved in a show. Ahem. I just don't see 'glad' as appropriate in these times. Not bothered is fine. After all nobody makes anybody watch anything. But I don't take any pleasure in something being axed because of co funding being withdrawn. And yes Matt Lucas is pretty successful, but what work is lined up for the others? For the record I am not being biased I absolutely loved the show.
I was'nt taking pleasure from it. I just think that it was a bad show that did not deserve a second series. Also, I'm pretty sure that the crew probably have other projects to be working on as well.
Maybe Lucy Lumsden will pick it up for Sky?
I'm glad to see it go. It seemed ambitious at first, but became very tired as it dragged on.
Quote: Nogget @ August 21 2009, 6:05 PM BSTDaphne's "Manchester" accent is particularly odd
Is it? I've always thought it reasonably accurate. :/
As for being 'glad', I suppose it'd be arguable for one to say that one was 'glad' that the licence fee wasn't being spent on another series, but beyond that I find it as just an odd expression.
Aaaaand on the news of the show's demise, I'm not surprised. It must have been terribly expensive. I seem to recall it having 5 production companies, or something equally ridiculous. I think it was a good experiment of a series, and worked reasonably well - but like I said, I'm not surprised.
Quote: Aaron @ August 22 2009, 11:11 PM BSTIs it? I've always thought it reasonably accurate. :/
As for being 'glad', I suppose it'd be arguable for one to say that one was 'glad' that the licence fee wasn't being spent on another series, but beyond that I find it as just an odd expression.
Aaaaand on the news of the show's demise, I'm not surprised. It must have been terribly expensive. I seem to recall it having 5 production companies, or something equally ridiculous. I think it was a good experiment of a series, and worked reasonably well - but like I said, I'm not surprised.
I say glad in that it was excessively advertised over here when nobody seemed to care. I watched the whole run of the series over the course of a week of late nights with my youngest. Upon second viewing, my opinion changed from liking it to mild annoyance to relief that it wasn't returning.
Hold on everyone - it might not have been axed after all.
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/broadcasters/krod-mandoon-facing-uncertain-future/5004765.article
Quote: Marc P @ August 22 2009, 8:24 AM BSTYeah it always cheers me up to hear people are out of work too. Sometimes if I need a real pick me up I go down to the dole office with a sandwich and a thermos.
Yes, Ian you monster...! 
Quote: Marc P @ August 22 2009, 1:37 PM BSTMaybe Lucy Lumsden will pick it up for Sky?
Or the Wayan Brothers
