So last night I tivoed Wire in the Blood so that I could watch both that and Masterpiece Classic. And once again my BBCA feed was sucking like a very sucky thing. It was okay for most of it and then in the last 20 minutes the picture just disintigrated. It was appalling. Luckily I was able to record it again in the middle of the night.

But can you imagine how annoying it was to be in that final bit where he figures everything out and to get NOTHING?]

Also, it was a bit surprising and disappointing that it was not set in the UK this episode.

The Texas accents were pretty good though, as in not just generic Southern (except for the judge) but pretty near what I hear on the nightly news.

Do you think that they mostly hired local actors?

OMG, IMDB says that the woman who played the judge also played "Trish Burkle" on Angel !

No wonder "Julie Rice" seemed so familiar - she also plays Pam Garrity.

ETA: In fact, alot of the cast has appeared in FNL and/or Prison Break.

So maybe then! I just hate it when shows act like southern accents are interchangeable. I mean, you don't see a Boston or New York accent when a show wants to tell you someone is from the north.

I mean, you don't see a Boston or New York accent when a show wants to tell you someone is from the north.

Yes, but you do have people sounding like the Kennedys when they are supposed to be from Boston. And don't even get me started on all the crap Downeast accents I've heard over the years.

Yeah, I just watched that episode of Wire in the Blood via download, and apparently they actually went to Texas and used Texas actors and everything.

And pulled out every Texas cliche they could think of.

And they're threatening to do another episode in Texas.

Well, sure, but at least they didn't have that field and dirt road and pretend it was set in Dallas or Houston. (I'm looking at you X-Files!)