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I'm sorry but I don't agree that it accurate. I don't think you can make such large assumptions on a handful of trailers/clips and the one TV Guide review Matt Roush wrote after seeing the first seven episodes. No one except those who worked on the programme and the Fox and Kudos execs have seen the final three episodes. I know from my own connection that the ending is indeed different, there is a new small subplot about Carver's family not in the original, and the relationships between Carver and Gemma and the two journalists play out a little differently to Broadchurch. Even Roush said there were differences in the first seven episodes, just small ones and ones he disliked. David won the role fairly over the American actors who auditioned for it. He worked his arse off on his American accent, I saw him. I'm not American so I can't judge his accent but he can't have worked harder than he did, both on the accent and in general. Most of the critics have actually praised his accent (and praised Gracepoint overall). Matt Roush is the only critic who's seen more than the first episode and given it a bad review, and his review was mainly "Broadchurch was so perfect, why remake it." Which is a fair comment but the target audience is people who, unlike the critics, won't be familiar with Broadchurch. I'm not expecting too much, and I completely understand why fans of Broadchurch are baffled by or just hate the idea of a US remake. I probably would feel the same way. But it's such a high quality production I doubt it will be a disaster. Even if the ratings are really bad with all David's other offers and new projects it won't affect his US career much. Not that he's really pursued a US career that actively.

For what it's worth one of the official books confirmed that Jenny didn't regenerate, the Source brought her back to life.

It's possible to experience a temporary neurological 'glitch' without being aware of it. I wasn't referring to the two women having a medical condition. Anyway it's still pretty rare - there are tens of thousands of videos online of people being surprised by loved ones/family members (often ones who they've been parted from for years, sometimes in disguise) in all kinds of contexts they've never seen that person in before, and recognising them instantly, e.g. the 'scuba soldier'. That is the norm - not those two cases. I can't imagine the writers are going to have Arya not recognise her sister (who to the audience still looks exactly like she always has, only with dark hair) without explicitly creating a reason, because the 99.9% of the audience who aren't aware of this phenomena are just going to think it's ludicrous and a plot hole. And honestly, of all the people who would hire a FM to kill Sansa (as opposed to killing her themselves, sending one of their own people, or hiring a regular assassin), Cersei is the only one that is logical and she's in debt and facing bigger problems. I mean - a hypothetical (up till now unmentioned) bastard daughter who is so wealthy she can afford things even Tywin Lannister balked at, deciding to hire an assassin to go after her own father's home just because she's jealous of him having another bastard daughter? Sansa becoming an assassin herself, killing someone and getting away with it despite the person's loved ones knowing she did it, and that person having a loved one who is super wealthy yet has no way other than hiring a FM to bring down a murderous bastard child? I'm sorry but those just don't seem at all plausible to me. I believe Arya with her training in seeing the truth of things would possibly be able to recognise Lady Stoneheart as her mother, depending on the situation and circumstances, but I wouldn't consider it a plothole or unusual if she didn't.

The examples you've given of people not recognising immediate family just because they were in a different context are very rare though, and they're linked to known neurological phenonena. I studied it when I was doing my neurology section. I mean, if the average person was waiting tables and their immediate family walked in, they aren't going to spend five minutes chatting with them without realising who they are simply because they're unusued to seeing their family in that restaurant. Most people in that situation would recognise their family instantly. That's unusual and the server quite possibly had a neurological issue. Also not recognising relatives posing as homeless people is due to intentionally ignoring homeless people and choosing not to look at them, which would not be the case with Arya (as she's trained to notice everyone) and especially not with someone she'd been sent to kill. Though the chance of someone wanting to kill LF's random niece and having the funds to hire a FM seem small. Besides weird things happen in real life that simply wouldn't be included in a TV show without explanation because it would come across as stupid or illogical. Arya not recognising her own sister without some explanation just wouldn't make sense to a TV audience, no matter how much you can fanwank it as "well in real life sometimes people wake up and just spontaneously don't recognise their own family members." How many TV viewers are even aware of that phenomena? Of all people Arya with her training definitely would see past hair dye and a slight increase in age. If the writers wanted Arya to meet/see Sansa and not recognise her I'm sure they'd create some plausible reason.

Broadchurch will air on BBC America in "early 2015", so presumably will air before that in the UK. http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/broadchurch_season_2_bbc_america_premiere_date_2015-2014-07

FYI Gracepoint will air in the UK (on one of the ITV channels) in the autumn, with episodes airing shortly after they air in the US. (There may be a delay of a week or two, it's not confirmed.)

Beans on toast is gorgeous, especially with some grated cheddar sprinkled over. I've heard UK baked beans (beans means Heinz!) are a bit different and I think sweeter (in the way ketchup is a bit sweet) than American baked beans. A boiled egg isn't part of a traditional English (i.e. Full English) breakfast but soft boiled egg and soldiers (toast cut into fingers) by themselves is quite traditional, I think.

Dear north Americans: Do you have Pimms? Have you heard of it? If not, does the idea of putting chopped up salad vegetables in alcoholic drinks seem incredibly weird to you?

This is my new favourite show! I'm so happy they have actual British comedians acting and writing it, rather than having separate writers then casting random American actors.

It's just a general expression of surprise. Like saying, "Oh my God!" There are various stories about the origin of this phrase. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/gordon-bennett.html Incidentally the link mentions "blimey" being an abbreviation for 'God blind me.' My grandmother was punished as a child for saying blimey because it was considered sacriligious. As an adult she said it all the time!

I actually hate jam. Marmite. Always marmite.

More or less the same here. I think most people in Britain use 'jam' pretty much interchangeably (if technically incorrectly) to mean any kind - smooth, chunks, whole fruit, all of it. If I heard someone say preserves or conserve, I'd think they were either a foodie/into jam-making, a Hyacinth Bucket type, or working for a food company or cafe/restaurant. Jelly-meaning-jam for example is a term I don't think I've heard anyone use outside of foodies/jam-makers - 99% of the time if someone says jelly, they mean the gelatin-based product. I guess it depends where in the UK you are, how old you are, what class you're from, and what your level of sort of 'foodie' knowledge and interest is. Also within the last few years food companies have really latched onto the idea of using different terms in order to promote products as being different (sort of like how post hotels advertise "High Tea" when they really mean "Afternoon Tea" - High Tea meaning something completely different).

In the UK all of those are generally called jam. Jam and preserves are used to mean the same thing, it's just that one term is posher than the other (jam being the posh one and preserves the middle class trying-too-hard one).

Brit here - yes, polystyrene. I've heard of styrofome but only as some vague American term which I'm not quite certain what it means. If someone said "foam cup" I'd think they wanted a cup of foam (like a foamy coffee) or something.

I liked the ending, though I was disappointed not to have Lady SH, but friends I was watching with who aren't book readers were a bit confused - they thought the captain changed his mind and decided to drop her off at the Wall as she originally requested when she showed him the 'magic coin.' Not sure if it was that clear to casual viewers where she was going and why. It depends entirely on what wording for the contract the actress and her agent agree on. But legally there's absolutely no reason why not, if they agree to sign off on it.

I hope so, re Gracepoint being seen as a different show. Gracepoint is waiting on renewal news for season 2 (though that decision won't be made till like October earliest, probably). Re Broadchurch, Chris Chibnall has said he planned the show as a trilogy, so unless the second series does really badly I am confident we will see a third series. But probably not more than that.

Sorry, I am confused - where is this "I know what happens to Ellie so I won't watch" stuff is coming from? Nothing in my two posts referenced the Ellie character or her storyline in any way. Or are you saying you read a spoiler about the Ellie character elsewhere and thus know what kind of material she has? To the best of my knowledge that is not true. The storyline/character I referred to

They haven't released the full character list. I know the names of the new character(s) and storylines, but I'm not going to spoil anyone (it's important to the production that no one leaks any spoilers so I wouldn't, I just don't want people not watching because they think it's going to be a carbon copy of Broadchurch). Just trust me, it is different. I don't know exactly how different because I haven't read all the scripts but it's not the same.

The trailer is pretty much entirely material from the first episode, and the first episode is the same for both. As the show goes on it separates from the original, with new major characters and a different ending. Not sure if it was such a good idea to do it that way, or to base the trailer on the first episode material.

Talking of checks/cheques, what does endorsing a check involve? I've seen mention in a couple of US shows about how the payee has to sign something, and then it gets sent back to the payer somehow? How does that work? In the UK someone writes you a cheque and you take it to your bank and that's it. You sign a paying-in slip and nothing gets sent to the person who wrote the cheque.

Broadchurch S2 starts production next week.

Ten and Donna, or Four and Leela.

Yes, it's ten episodes. They are getting near-ish to the end of filming now (and about a week or so after they do, Broadchurch 2 starts filming). Fox have also expressed interest in and put plans in place for Gracepoint to be a long-running show, though of course that depends on how well the first season does. We should know more about Gracepoint and when it will air during Upfronts next month.

To go back to the pudding/dessert thing, pudding is the upper middle/upper class word, and dessert or sweets are both considered common. Edit - in the UK.

You can get ready-made custard in tins, boxes, or 'fresh' ready-made custard from the fresh/fridge section of the supermarket. Or custard powder that you make with sugar and milk, or the even lazier instant custard powder that you just add boiling water to. It is like what 11 was eating - UK custard can be thinner or thicker, but it always has more or less a pourable consistency. I had some ready made boxed custard the other week and it's sort of gloopy, but becomes more fluid on heating. I can imagine it could get confusing as pudding is both a specific foodstuff (which can be sweet or savoury), or a generic word meaning the sweet course at the end of a meal (in which case anything eaten for that course - ice cream, cake, fresh fruit - would be referred to as pudding too).