Guy Martin/David Coulthard

[uk_dave&gill]

Originally Posted by SCP440

Apparently the reason Guy Martin does not get more slots on TV is because foreigners don't understand him. Because we sell so many programs abroad they need a presenter who speaks Queens English. Shame, we should have more like him on our TV.

If that's true, then it's a travesty. So we get denied someone/something we'd enjoy because they/it don't fit the remit of the larger market?

I guess this is the same reason that 99% of documentaries these days, even if they are UK produced about UK people (as an example, Supertruckers about a heavy haulage firm operating out of Bristol) use kilometres in the narration as opposed to miles? OK, I realise that technically we use the metric system across the board here now, and have done for years, so much so that most younger folk don't really know much about imperial, but the one thing we have hung on to is miles! Even someone celebrating their 17th birthday today and going out for their first driving lesson will be looking at their speedometer in miles per hour!