{"id":666,"date":"2012-04-07T00:29:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T04:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=666"},"modified":"2012-04-07T00:36:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T04:36:59","slug":"us-uk-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"US-UK Sitcom Setting Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a Twitter conversation unfold today between British TV writers <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ellardent\">Andrew Ellard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RichardDGNaylor\">Richard Naylor<\/a> about the comparative role of setting in US and UK sitcoms. Naylor wondered why so many US sitcoms have detailed, specified settings (i.e. <em>Seinfeld<\/em> in NYC, <em>Frasier<\/em> in Seattle), whereas UK sitcoms seem to be part of more generalized regions, like London or the north in general, rather than specific areas. The most revelatory tweet was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ellardent\/status\/188296347185717251\">this one<\/a>, from Ellard: &#8220;It&#8217;s aspirational. Most US residents will never see LA or New York. Most UK can see something Liverpool-ish anytime!&#8230;.UK sitcoms are broadly &#8216;I recognise my life in that&#8217; while most US shows go &#8216;I&#8217;d like to live like that&#8217;.&#8221; Also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RichardDGNaylor\/status\/188348948904288256\">this<\/a>, from Naylor: &#8220;Also think Americans pride themselves a little more what part of US they&#8217;re from. We don&#8217;t care so much&#8230;.Went to Miami, heard this girl say &#8220;I&#8217;m from NY so I know what&#8217;s up.&#8221; Cant imagine &#8220;I&#8217;m from Sheffield so I know what&#8217;s up&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a Twitter conversation unfold today between British TV writers Andrew Ellard and Richard Naylor about the comparative role of setting in US and UK sitcoms. Naylor wondered why so many US sitcoms have detailed, specified settings (i.e. Seinfeld &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=666\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}