Another British show about foreigners mocking America

[Semicolon]

They're almost royal – and certainly funny, but a new TV show is accused of mocking the trusting nature of Americans

Meet Georgie and Poppy Carlton, distant heirs to the British throne, who have escaped the privileged existence of their country pile to travel across America for a crash course in the "real world". But these clueless aristocrats are actors and the television show following their "nice but dim" antics has become a cult US hit, leaving some Americans unhappy that their inherently trusting nature been abused.

Georgie (Ed Gamble) and Poppy (Amy Hoggart) are the stars of Almost Royal, a spoof comedy show, produced and screened by the BBC America channel. Seizing upon an American fascination with the British aristocracy following the success of Downton Abbey, Almost Royal follows the sheltered siblings, "50th and 51st in line to the British throne", who are fulfilling the dying wish of their father, Lord Carlton, by travelling across the States to investigate how ordinary folk live.

Poppy, who some viewers may have confused with Pippa Middleton, has hopes of finding fame as a lifestyle guru or cookery presenter despite her delusions being frequently exposed. In Los Angeles she asks a plastic surgeon: "Can you make me look less like my mother?"

She asks an unsuspecting Texas ranch-hand, with apparent sincerity: "What made you want to become a cowboy? Was it Toy Story 1 or 2?"

Georgie, seeking the life-skills which will help him manage their Norfolk estate, is shown how to swing a baseball bat in Boston and says: "Our father used to keep this sort of thing in the car in case anyone came to wash the windscreen." He explains their chances of ascending to the throne thus: "If 49 people in the line of ascension to the throne all decided to go on the same bus holiday and that bus went off a cliff, then I would be king."

The series has become BBC America's highest-rating comedy show; it had its premiere a fortnight ago. It is the first BBC Worldwide comedy to be sold back to a UK broadcaster: E4 has bought the series and will be screening it this autumn.

Yet some Americans are uneasy that the series has exposed a cultural genuflection towards anyone claiming to be British royalty. A Los Angeles Times reviewer complained: "For all our cosmopolitan make-up, we are a parochial people; but we are also a trusting people, willing to take everyone at their word … We tend to suffer fools, if not gladly, then with impressive patience."

Variety said: "The idea of foreign visitors asking their US hosts impertinent or insulting questions, and making the latter look gullible in the bargain, would seem to be pretty well exhausted." But the influential Hollywood publication praised the "frequently funny" show: "Gamble and Hoggart manage to strike just the right tone, sounding alternately wide-eyed and priggish, without coming across as mean-spirited – which is no small feat."

Almost Royal, which built a large social media following through YouTube clips before it aired, has fared better than another US attempt to cash in on the Royal Family. Fox's I Wanna Marry Harry, a dating show in which 12 girls compete for a Prince Harry lookalike's affections, was axed due to dismal ratings, with its remaining episodes shunted online.

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[odeon]

Maybe I should watch this one.

[Semicolon]

Maybe I should watch this one.

I haven't seen it; perhaps I'll watch it later. I wonder if this show is plain humor, or whether it's attempting to expose some flaw with America.

[Lestat]

I thought that the US does a pretty good job of exposing quite a lot of those all by themselves, courtesy of all their fatty-fat conservative, jeebus-masturbating gun-nut; numb-nuts

It seems from the outside looking in, that fattyfat conservative godbotherer yanktards are to the planetary population, and ecosystem at large, what portuguese sadomasochist necropaedophiles are to madeleine mccann:P

[odeon]

Wondering what really happened to Madeleine McCann now.

[Lestat]

My guess is one of three things.

1-possibly a burglary gone awry, perp(s) panic, kill the kid to shut her up.

2-nonces, kidnap for sale.

3-nonces-kidnap to fuck and chuck.

Or possibly 4-some freelance psycho with possibly little interest in screwing her, getting their jollies from kidnapping and chopping little children into hamburger meat.
Of course option 4 could well coexist with options 1 through 3.

Who knows? sure as flying fuck not the portuguese pigs, who by all reckonings sound like a right incompetent pack of lazy, useless inbred schmucks, but none of those options is very good, at least not unless one happens to be a pencil-dicked necropaedophile sack of fermented dog shit that has a thing for banging and killing (not neccessarily in that order mind you) small children.

[odeon]

So, you're not one of the 5-the parents did it bunch?

[Lestat]

No, I'm not. I just don't get that sense about the whole thing.

Besides, they have already gone through enough.
IF they did kill mccann, considering the way the entire case degenerated into one ugly great clusterfuck, with the portuguese pigs acting about as professional as coco the fucking clown; I see no way that a case could now be brought, certainly not without potentially harming the remaining, living, un-fucked children psychologically and emotionally.

IMO if the mccann family DID somehow cause madeleine's death then I don't think it smells like murder. Accident and panic I cannot rule out, but if the death was accidental, then they should face no pig crap anyway. And not to mention that at least one of those foreign pigs seems like a right nasty incompetent, selfinterested loudmouthed O2-embezzling prick.

[bodie]

Wondering what really happened to Madeleine McCann now.

Yeah.  It doesn't look good.  Might never know. 

I have never left the urchin for a minute.  Not even to go pay for petrol.   Have been told i wrap in bubble wrap,  i dunno,  it is a hard balance to strike i spose.

Sorry, have not seen the tv show so i don't know.

[odeon]

I still have a hard time leaving my kids. They have no problem leaving me, though.