In a message dated 2/21/01 3:22:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, N.Faulkner@tesco.net writes:
<< Oh, so we're quaint foreigners, are we, spiralling around the All American center? >>
[[slapping naughty boy's fingers on the keyboard]] Bad Neil, bad, bad! No putting words in my mouth. I distinctly said what I did in a complimentary fashion, and stated that they were appealing because they were different. I never said the viewers in question were the center of the universe. However, I've noticed that fans/viewers in the UK, exactly like fans/viewers in the US, have a natural tendency to imagine that the entertainment they are used to is the Center of the Universe. They are deliberately conditioned to see things this way by the broadcasters and producers in their respective countries.
Leah