Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Law and Order UK


I am a huge fan of LAW AND ORDER and its various incarnations on NBC because the writing is top notch as is the acting and I like the intelligent way that they deal with many of the popular social issues of the day. This new series takes us through the same formula only sets the series in the UK and is a British Television production. The language is a bit different as are the procedures. Its like watching the American version of the OFFICE after seeing the British original. Just a bit shy of bizarro world. Anyone who is a fan of Battlestar Gallactica will recognize Jamie Bamber who played Lee Adama as one of the main detectives. Obviously an American accent was part of his acting skills as he is clearly British. Good to see he found work after Gallactica's end. I enjoy checking out foreign TV especially from the UK and Australia so I will give this series a proper "go" as they say. Gotta love torrent for allowing me to be the expert in popular culture that I am.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Michael May said...

I don't watch a lot of Law and Order, but I'm enough of an Anglophile that this sounds really cool to me. I'll have to keep an eye out for it on BBC America.