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Topic History of: Silent Witness in South Africa
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Author	Message
JK2006	Yes Foz I now discover tonight is a repeat.
Foz	Hasn't this series ended??
giles2008	I watched it having never watched the series before and also thought it was awful.I can only guess that Silent Witness is very popular in South Africa(on BBC Prime i believe)and that it that it was meant as a moral tale for locals and visitors coming to the country for the World Cup. It was a grubby drama that left a nasty taste in the mouth.
JK2006	I remember when trying to sell the Record of the Year format to America, being told "British TV never works here". That was, of course, before Simon Cowell.
DJones	These road trips (Morse & Lewis in Australia wasn't bad, and Tony Hill in Texas (?) was quite good) are clearly made to attract the international audience, to increase the export chances of TV-series. What the producers forget: The global success of british TV is due to the britishness (if there is such a thing) of the product. The worst example (I can think of at the moment) of pandering to the assumed tastes of an international audience was "The New Avengers": That series had no identity at all.