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Psychedelia

A British TV rock music show of the late 60s whose opening theme was You Keep Me Hangin' On#Vanilla Fudge version with artwork by Martin Sharp. Some pretty adventurous sounds as I remember. Doug butler (talk) 01:07, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Google is not turning up anything. Are you maybe thinking of Beat-Club, which was a German show from around that time and which featured Vanilla Fudge playing that song [1]? --Viennese Waltz 08:24, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Almost certainly British, but definite on Sharp original, reminiscent of Disraeli Gears cover, and Vanilla Fudge one doesn't forget. Doug butler (talk) 13:00, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

I guess we didn't nail it +six years ago ...? ---Sluzzelin talk 15:43, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Worth a try though. I had hoped then that a sharp eye might have picked up the query. Now it's "Martin who?" Doug butler (talk) 00:41, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Did British TV show foreign live sports when everything they usually showed was shut by coronavirus?

Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 01:36, 16 August 2020 (UTC) ? i don't understand what you mean? Most 'foreign' sports are available to watch live on British TV whether there is a virus or not. Nanonic (talk) 11:04, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

I recall Belarus, Tajikistan, Burundi, Nicaragua and Turkmenistan and maybe one or two others were the only soccer for awhile. Did they show any of their sports? Without virus they probably show Bundsliga, La Liga, Serie A, maybe some others but not Belarus or Nicaragua Primier League? Baseball is popular in Nicaragua, likely never shut down too and maybe other sports were available as well if any channel wanted to buy the rights (Burundian cricket?). Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 12:14, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Oh I see, it's help with Google you're looking for. Try searching for the term 'UK TV Guide' and using the date functions to limit your results. Nanonic (talk) 13:35, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

I looked at noon to midnight on the first Sunday of April and May on Internet Archive and could not find any Belarusian, Tajikistani, Burundian, Nicaraguan or Turkmenistani sports. Maybe on satellite TV? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 15:32, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

The mainstream channels in the UK tended to show "classic" former sporting events during lockdown. I recall that there was the 2012 London Olympics being shown, the opening ceremony as well as highlights, when we should have been watching the 2020 games (2012 was an outstanding games for the UK in medal terms, besides being oranised by us). I think I've the Queen parachute out of a helicopter about a dozen times this year. Some historic Wimbledon tennis matches were shown when during Wimbledon fortnight. Ditto the FA Cup Final (although the actual match was finally played in August instead of May) and the Epsom Derby. I don't recall seeing any football from the Commonwealth of Independent States, but it may have been available, there's a channel called FreeSports which shows all kinds of obscure stuff that hardly anyone watches AFAIK. Alansplodge (talk) 17:27, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

So if Olympics shift to 2037 maybe USA will show 2028 Olympics. Guaranteed if they skip an Olympiad entirely and know it's skipped soon enough. If Tokyo, Beijing and World Cup are all 2022 that would be weird as heck. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 15:05, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

It wouldn't be that strange. Prior to the 1990s, the Winter and Summer Olympics always happened in the same year. --Jayron32 18:07, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

• After the Bundesliga started again (and before the Premier League kicked off again), it was apparently a thing on British TV for a while (I don't do football myself), with viewing figures up 800%.. Fgf10 (talk) 07:32, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Okay, that was shown on BT Sport which is a subscriber channel rather than Freeview. Serious sports fans would pay for this or watch it in a pub. Alansplodge (talk) 15:43, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

I was stuck in Cardiff for three weeks in March. The sports channels were showing old sports events. I don't think they were foreign, even though many of the teams were foreign. I think they were just popular games from the past. When I got back home, I noticed that because U.S. sports weren't being played, they were showing classic football and baseball games on TV. So, it was kind of the same thing. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 13:24, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

On free-to-air TV: broadly, no. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 09:22, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Overrepresentation of actors from the UK and Australia in Hollywood?

It seems to me that British (including Black British) and Australian actors get cast as American characters quite often. Is the notion of actors (and maybe actresses?) from the UK and Australia and maybe Canada and Ireland being overrepresented in Hollywood and American television supported by evidence? If so, why is this the case? StellarHalo (talk) 16:35, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Are British Actors Better Trained Than Their American Counterparts?. Alansplodge (talk) 17:09, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

[Edit conflict] I suggest that you should take the possibilities of Confirmation bias, Selective perception and unconscious Cherry picking into account. The large majority of US actors who play US characters are, in so doing, obviously commonplace and unremarkable, so the minority of non-US actors playing US roles likely seem more noticeable and memorable to the casual American viewer.

I do not however suggest that these psychological biases constitute the complete explanation. It may be that due to various factors within the entertainment industry (which others will be more able to identify and analyse than myself), non-US actors are indeed "overrepresented", although how that could be evaluated I'm not sure. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.122.61.94 (talk) 17:13, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

How come so many British and Irish actors make it big in Hollywood?

13 Reasons Why Foreign Actors Thrive in Hollywood

What does the latest British invasion say about American acting?

All of these sources mention training. Alansplodge (talk) 17:40, 16 August 2020 (UTC)