Meme of the week: your favourite fake accent

24 June 2009 Rob Buckley TMINE 11 Comments

It can’t have escaped your attention that more and more TV shows on both sides of the Atlantic are now enlightened enough to include foreigners in their cast. In fact, you’d be hard-pushed to find a US TV show that doesn’t include at least one person from Britain, Ireland or Australia in their numbers.

Sometimes these actors are allowed to keep their own accents, but other times they’re made to fake an accent. So this week’s meme is a relatively simple one:

What’s your favourite fake accent?

It might be your favourite convincing accent (eg Hugh Laurie in House, apparently), it might be your favourite absolutely appalling accent (eg Phil Glenister in Demons) and it can be from any country in the world. If you’re stuck for a TV show, you can resort to a movie if you want.

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.

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  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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