Ignorant script writers - and producers?

I remember an old remake of 1001 Dalmations starring Glen Close as Cruella Deville, the setting was England but clearly with an American audience in mind, as part of our wildlife included raccoons!

Following on from your comment Greatnan about modern vocabulary in the wrong time setting, it's very annoying, agree with your thoughts and wonder why script writer don't do their research more thoroughly. Watched something recently that was set in the 1940s, where a piece of dialogue was all wrong for that era.

I get cross when young script writers can't be bothered to research the vocabulary appropriate for the time in which their series is set.

I get cross watching American series when they are supposed to be in England. The scenes are clearly NOT England. I suppose this is to save money filming scenes over here.

MargaretX

"I was a teenager in the 50s and no one ever kissed in public."

So was I -- and we did! I have a - for me - romantic memory of standing in the rain, kissing my lovely girlfriend in the street - we just didn't care. In East Finchley, near the old Rex Cinema (Now the Phoenix)... Next time we talk I shall have to remind her of that!

I'm sure Lucy Gannon wouldn't put her name to anything as trashy as Rosemary and Thyme though.

I met Lucy Gannon in the late nineties when I was invited to watch the filming of one of her dramas in our old farmhouse about two years after we left. She was very interesting and told me they often get inspiration and ideas from trawling websites. I didn't have a computer in those days so didn't think anything of it.

A few years later a friend of mine wrote some 'fan-fic' stories for a TV website. I think the programme was Dangerfield but I'm not sure. One of the plots was about a retired policewoman and her best friend who was a plant pathologist. They solved a crime of child abduction. A couple of years later, Rosemary and Thyme appeared.

I have just watched Rosemary and Thyme, whilst surfing. What a load of rubbish. They find a murder or two on every job, and run round investigating without ever telling the police of their suspicions. In nearly every programme, one or other of them comes close to getting killed. I watch it because I like the gardens, even though I am no gardener.

Casualty is just another soap with very little relationship to life in the real world of A&E. I sometimes worry that people go to A&E expecting it to be like the tele. Same goes for Holby City, though some patients in that establishment are sometimes sent home with their surgery postponed.

I was a teenager in the 50s and no one ever kissed in public. In most films about the good old days passengers on train stations indulge in open mouth kissing and even talk aloud about loving someone.

That annoys me. Why dont they do bit of real research and ask older people how it was.

A&E on casualty can not be like real life. Doctors have time to conduct their love lives and follow erring patients into the hospital grounds, they have so much time.

I ususally catch up with Casualty, while waiting for the 10 pm news to begin on Saturday night and forget that it is often late. I can't imagine anyone watching such a fairy tale on a regular basis.

Obviously it is not real but I think some of the scripts need a bit more care too. On Coronation Street recently a character referred to someone in their past who had 'a wandering eye and it took you (however long) to work out who he was looking at', implying that this person was some sort of simpleton. I know someone who has suffered terribly with a so called 'wandering eye'. She has just had her fourth operation to try to correct this. She watches Coronation Street and this remark upset her greatly.

Having spent yesterday supporting witnesses in a very nasty trial, I get really cross when programmes show people sitting next to the perpetrator of the crime and with, apparently, no emotional or practical support available to them. NO Courts are like that now!

Sorry, off hobby horse now

@glammanana So... do you look like Eric Sykes, then?

People make mistakes in real life - was this med. one appropriate to the character? What was that famous gaff that Jade Goody made about Essex?

I used to watch that. An early example of a common mistake then [ smile]

Ummm, it is fiction

feetlebaum so so glad I don't look like Hattie Jaques !!

@petallus "Every now and then I come across people being described as identical twins when one is male and the other female!"

Well - it worked for Eric Sykes and Hattie Jaques!

petallus I for one certainly don't want to be mistaken for my twin brother,he has lost most of his hair and about 4st heavier than me,he would look stupid in my high heel's .
I do though tend to take the dialogue from some of the Soaps with the pinch of salt that they deserve sometime.

Every now and then I come across people being described as identical twins when one is male and the other female!

I know - I should just accept all the glaring errors - such as people making an offer to buy a house and moving in the next day. I wish my conveyancing had been so quick and easy. And the same doctor/lawyer/policeman dealing with every problem. The doctor in Coronation Street is a one-man practice in an inner city area, apparently.
The other thing I find infuriating is the way that doctors and nurses, even porters and receptionists, in the medical dramas take a personal interest in the problems of every patient. House calls seem to be the norm - my family in the UK tell me that it is virtually impossible to get one.

Well, I suppose Emmerdale is in La la land.....