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Jingoistic nonsense

Doesn't patronising parochialism get your goat?

I was just reading a web sites bemoaning the qualtiy of TV offerings in the U.S when I noticed it said positive things about the documentary Earth.

I haven't seen Earth but I know it's a spectacular production from the BBC narrated by David Attenborough.

Apparently it's narrated by Sigourney Weaver in the U.S.

And reading that reminded me of Meerkat Manor which is utterly charming. When narrated by Bill Nighy. But not when narrated by Pio Terei.

And that just pisses me off. What is the thinknig behind buying something of high quality and then thinking 'you know what this needs, it's excellent narration replaced with someone local who isn't as good, speaking lines not written for them, because quality isn't something we should be happy to leave well enough alone.'

What kind of slow witted oaf thinks Sigourney Weaver is a suitable replacmeent for David Attenborough's narration? When it's already been done!

I mean if you buy unnarrated footage and go looking for someone to write a script for, sure, pick a local trained actor/presenter. But when you've already bought the worlds best...

I't's just ignorant pandering parochialism dedicated to shrinking the world of viewers to the room they're sitting in.