Meta: "British actors are too ugly for foreign audiences" - quoi?
British actors are too ugly for foreign audiences, says British TV boss
The actors using in British dramas are too ugly for foreign audiences, according to an ITV executive, who said the gritty realism often found on domestic television doesn't work overseas.
Oh - an ITV executive. That explains a lot.
Of course I understand that, in order to sell homemade products abroad, you have to keep an eye on local preferences. If you're selling homemade chocolate cookies with 100% organic ingredients, you might consider selling homemade chocolate/cream cookies with 100% organic ingredients for the international market if that's what is in demand.
However, you wouldn't sell cookies made with artificial flavour, sweeteners, food colouring and battery eggs. Not only because it would go against your original concept, but also because the stuff would very likely taste like shite.
And looking at stinkers like US "Coupling", it very often does.
Non-existent chins, overbites, jug ears, horse faces, freckles, big noses, beady eyes, older than 20, too skinny, too big, horrible fashion sense - and guess what: I still like them.
The actors using in British dramas are too ugly for foreign audiences, according to an ITV executive, who said the gritty realism often found on domestic television doesn't work overseas.
Oh - an ITV executive. That explains a lot.
Of course I understand that, in order to sell homemade products abroad, you have to keep an eye on local preferences. If you're selling homemade chocolate cookies with 100% organic ingredients, you might consider selling homemade chocolate/cream cookies with 100% organic ingredients for the international market if that's what is in demand.
However, you wouldn't sell cookies made with artificial flavour, sweeteners, food colouring and battery eggs. Not only because it would go against your original concept, but also because the stuff would very likely taste like shite.
And looking at stinkers like US "Coupling", it very often does.
Non-existent chins, overbites, jug ears, horse faces, freckles, big noses, beady eyes, older than 20, too skinny, too big, horrible fashion sense - and guess what: I still like them.