Anybody noticed the striking difference between American and British Drama series on Television.
They are absolute worlds apart.
An American Drama first
Numb3rs.
An FBI Agent gets stuck every week and has to call on his father, his nerdy brother and all his brothers equally if not even more nerdy workmates to solve the crimes for him.
These 'unofficial' helpers have free access to the main FBI Headquarters and go off traipsing all over the crime scenes without anyone saying, "Sorry you can't come in here officials only". This group of amateurs solve the baffling crimes every week and manage to do it in an hour.
Yeah Right!
The British Drama, a re-run of a series called
extinct.
This is set in a forest somewhere down southish, the main hero is a nerdy professor with a few dumbo sidekicks that meet a young lady zoo keeper as she and they are searching for reported sightings of dinosaurs.
It doesn't take long they find some, however another young lady that is with them is from the Home Office what does she do? does she order up a task force with lot's of cages and scientists to try and capture the wee beasties?
No, she says to the whole group, "Well before we go any further you will all have to sign the Official Secrets Act!" and takes them all off to a large office building on Whitehall and the next thing we see are the heroes actually in an office signing pieces of paper!
Yeah Right!
This was only episode 1 of
extinct perhaps they will do something tomorrow when episode 2 is shown.
Now which of these two drama's is the more believable?
My money is on the British Drama I think they got the red tape absolutely correct, whereas the American one pretends that they wouldn't be bogged down by such stuff but we all know that really they would.
