Brits (and Aussies) as Yanks on Telly

Watched the QI on Film (with Emma Thompson, who is just fucking brilliant. I loved it when she scared Stephen Fry by threatening to show him her muff) the other day and they brought up the fact that Brits are always cast as villains or gays in US films, or villains and pansies usually have accents.

Well, WTF about all these (new-ish) US shows (post-Hugh Laurie on House) with British and/or Australian leads with American accents? It's disconcerting, especially if you're most familiar with the actor with their natural accent, and really, you can *tell* (well, I can tell) when they're slipping. Some examples:

The Riches - Lead Eddie Izzard as Wayne Malloy (British... born in Yemen?! Did not know that, thanks IMDb)
Eleventh Hour - Lead Rufus Sewell as Dr. Jacob Hood (British)
Mentalist - Lead Simon Baker as Patrick Jane (Australian)
Nip/Tuck - Co-Lead Julian McMahon as Dr. Christian Troy (Australian)
United States of Tara - Lead Toni Collette as Tara (Australian)

Oh, there's more but I'm getting tired of all the online ads I'm having to slog through to get the links.

One actor that doesn't force a fake American accent is Tim Roth in Lie to Me (the show is actually kind of interesting, or at least the first two episodes I saw). I wouldn't be able to watch it at ALL if Tim Roth did an accent. I just couldn't handle that.

I've got lots more annoying shit to write about, but this has been tops on the list, especially since FX was showing the Fantastic Four today. It features Julian McMahon as the villan (sans natural Australian accent) Victor von Doom. Since it was the DVD on TV thingy FX does, it had behind-the-scenes with Mr. McMahon using his natural accent and it just made it that much more obvious how fakeity fake his American Accent was. I dunno, it's probably because I'm so sensitised to accents as well as voices in general, but it really kills when the wrong voice comes out of someone.

What this is.

Shit really pisses me off.

Stupid shit, mostly.

I watch a lot of telly and notice things that most people don't both in commercials and in the world around me.

God it pisses me off.

So, here's a place, inspired by H8LEY.com that I will post my vitriolic diatribes on modern idiots for people like myself (or just myself) to agree with.

Whatever.

Oy.