> JNugent wrote:

>> tony cooper wrote:

>>> Robert Bannister wrote:

>>>> Cece wrote:

>

>>>>> Oh, yes! Especially when HRH Prince Charles is speaking. His
>>>>> mum's speech is perfectly plain, and his sons aren't very dificult
>>>>> to understand, but he's impossible. Most BBC productions are
>>>>> understandable -- not Eastenders, and not dramas about royals --
>>>>> was it the one about the youngest Windsors, or was it the one
>>>>> about Prince John in which the closed captioning had "rol" for
>>>>> "royal"?

>>>> We got a new one last night: the Gil Mayo Mysteries. I could
>>>> understand all the men and the woman with a Scottish accent, but it
>>>> took me most of the programme to "tune in" to the speech of the
>>>> younger English women. I could have used subtitles.

>>>
>>> Speaking of new shows, BBCAmerica has recently added Avalon's "Not
>>> Going Out". http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/313/index.jsp
>>> "Coupling" it ain't.
>>>
>>> What bothered me about this program (BrE sic) is that it has a laugh
>>> track. I can't believe that this is a studio audience laughing.
>>> They've pumped up the laughs into the red zone.
>>>
>>> Is this common now in the UK? Laugh tracks?

>>
>> It appears to be so for things which are modelled on "Frasier",
>> "Friends", etc.

>
> Weren't those two recorded in front of an audience?