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I have heard a London accent because there is a British celebrity who is currently on American TV and she has become quite popular with American TV viewers. She fakes what she calls an American accent. She makes the American "r" sound instead of making it sound like "uh." She is very nice, a great emcee but she is a bit of a joker.

If you have the Sky Network, you know who she is.

We have Sky here (most people in Britain have at least some form of digital TV) but I don't watch it much. Who is it?

It's none other than Mel Peachey, from "Quiznation."

She now hosts a show here in America called "100 Winners" on GSN, which is the American equivalent of Challenge TV in England. "100 Winners" is based on "The Cash Vault" there. She used to host a show called "Playmania," which was based on "Quiznation." Then, they branched out into two different shows, "100 Winners" and "Quiznation" under its original British name. Usually, she doesn't host "Quiznation" but she has been lately because the regular host has been competing on "Dancing With the Stars," our version of what you call "Strictly Come Dancing."

Mel is very well versed in American TV because she likes to watch such shows as "Friends," "Judging Amy" and "Talk Soup."

I almost e-mailed her a few times, but I backed down.

Because she is so well versed in American TV, American viewers like her. However, I still don't know the difference between different types of English accents. I have BBC America, so I guess I should start watching it more often.

Do you Americans also get those awful late night phone-in quiz shows? They've destroyed TV for all British insomniacs. Bring back 'Cybernet' and 'Get Stuffed'.

Yes, but luckily they're only on cable. GSN, the American equivalent of Challenge TV, in fact.

It's fitting that they come on on a channel that shows all game shows 20 hours a day!

Are you saying that British people are getting insomnia more often because the craze of those shows are so popular?

I haven't got the slightest clue who she is. I've done a Wikipedia search on her and it seems she's done American TV almost exclusively. Nobody in Britain would know who on Earth you're talking about, mate.

BBC America? I've heard there's pretty much nothing at all of interest on that. If you can use BitTorrent, get on sites like UKNova and start downloading proper TV shows from there. There's surely loads to take your fancy - things like Deal or No Deal and stuff like that.

I have picked up a lot of british slang from 10 yrs of being online... for instance I am always calling my kids my nippers.

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I have never once heard an America say those two words.

Mel Peachey is an absolutely wonderful person, but I don't think Quiznation in England lasted too long with her.

Yes, there are shows like the daytime British version of "The Weakest Link" there, and "As Time Goes By." We brought Anne Robinson here from England so that's how I know who she is. "As Time Goes By" is also a very good show.

Of course, "Deal or No Deal" is the same game whether it's with Noel Edmonds or Howie Mandel. It's just that here in America, there are more gimmicks. I have no trouble understanding either of those guys, though.

I was using it as an example. I'm sure there's loads of other stuff you can watch at at very good quality just a few hours after we in the UK get to watch it.

Is that, for example, like when one of our cable networks called CNBC airs a rerun of "Deal or No Deal" here in America at 8:00pm and then repeats the same episode at 11:00pm?

Er... no.

What I mean is this:

Game show (or any programme) airs at 8 or 9pm in Britain, say
Someone is recording it
They then encode it and put it on a BitTorrent website
You see it at about 12am UK time (about 5-6pm for you)
You download it
And you'll probably have it by about 8-9pm your time if not sooner
Then you can watch it

That's the way it works.

Wow!

People don't do that very often here!

I don't know.. I'm more cut up on why americans say

"cussed"
"hood"
"trunk"

and

"sweatpants"