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  1. imagine there’s no accents
    Netflix's "Damsel" New York Premiere
    Millie Bobby Brown Will Speak in Whatever Accent She LikesThe Damsel star explained that she tends to mimic the accents of those around her…even Jimmy Fallon.
    By Tom Smyth
  2. who is that?
    Meanwhile, in the U.K., a Giant Sausage Just Won The Masked SingerThe Crown frankly wishes it was as British as Rita Ora giving the Masked Singer U.K. title to a giant dancing sausage.
    By Rebecca Alter
  3. Unearthing a Rare 1971 Monty Python Film All About Peas Let’s say you suddenly found yourself in charge of a major corporation. If you’re good at your job, imagine you’d probably try to steer the […]
    By Ramsey Ess
  4. Digging Up the Roots of News Satire with ‘On the Hour’ There have been many articles I’ve written for this series where I assumed that I was probably introducing a significant portion of my […]
    By Ramsey Ess
  5. gingerbread houses
    Gaze at the Glory of Gingerbread King’s LandingWinter is crumbling.
    By Jackson McHenry
  6. Exploring the Lunacy of ‘The Goon Show’The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. […]
    By Ramsey Ess
  7. British Comedian Mel Smith Dies at 60British comedian Mel Smith passed away Friday in his London home after having a heart attack. He was 60 years old. Smith rose to prominence […]
    By Bradford Evans
  8. Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: ‘Misfits Season 2’Season 2 of oddly dark British comedy Misfits is now on DVD. The show follows five young delinquents who get strange super powers while doing […]
    By Jenny Nelson
  9. accents
    Is Brit Emily Blunt’s American Accent Better Than Her British Accent?We think so. Give her accents a listen.
    By Jesse David Fox
  10. Ricky Gervais Is Bringing America ‘Derek’ and an AppRemember when people with accents were all up in arms about Derek? Well, now Americans can be the ones with upped arms. Next year, Derek will […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  11. Andy Samberg is Cuckoo in ‘Cuckoo’ “So, his name is Cuckoo? Really?” asks everyone.  Apparently, in England that is a plausible name an American hippie would give himself. […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  12. Hulu Announces Streaming Start Date for New ‘The Thick Of It’ SeasonThe fourth season of Armando Iannucci’s The Thick Of It will debut in the states on Hulu this Saturday, September 9, immediately following […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  13. The Complete Guide to Everything: ‘Doctor Who’High concept experimental episode time! This week Tom spends 20 minutes trying to explain 50 years of Doctor Who lore to Tim, someone who does […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  14. NBC Buys The Adaptation of British Sitcom ‘Gates’ NBC beat out the other networks to win the rights to Gates, a single-cam sitcom from Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith (’Til Death), which is […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  15. More Alan Partridge! There Will Also Be Another Season of ‘Mid Morning […]In the immortal words of Alan Partridge: “Alright, I’ll rephrase the question. Can I… no, actually, I’ll just repeat the question: have I got […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  16. ABC to Pilot American Version of ‘Spy’ Spy is a British show about a single father who quits his mundane job and is accidentally recruited to become a spy. You know, the classic way […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  17. HBO Orders a Pilot for a ‘Getting On’ RemakeHBO has ordered a pilot from the creators of Big Love, Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer. The show will be a remake of the award-winning BBC Four […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  18. Henson is Producing a Show of British Puppets for British Humans If you liked the above video, you are in luck because the BBC is going to be airing a new Jim Henson Company produced puppet program (or […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  19. The Time When John Cleese Wrote and Bet and Got Angry at a NewspaperLetters of Note has a exchange from 1982 between John Cleese and the editor of The Sun, which stemmed from a report in that paper claiming that […]
    By Jesse David Fox