Quote - The sci-fi (SyFy) channel often has actors with accents trying to sound like they're from the US.  Some are actually good at it.  The House character sounds strange to me though.

Too bad those running that channel have turned it into utter shit. scifi original =garbage. I refuse to even spell out the stupid new  name for the channel.

"My father was from Donegal and people used to think he was from Scotland."

Obviously seen Sean Connery in the Untouchables. Closer, geographically, than his 'Russian' accent for Red October :)

Quote - The sci-fi (SyFy) channel often has actors with accents trying to sound like they're from the US.  Some are actually good at it.  The House character sounds strange to me though.

Actually a lot of Syfy channel's shows HAVE got British actors in them. Syfy does this little trick where they announce an "Original Series" when it's really just been purchased from the BBC ;o). Merlin comes to mind.

Laurie

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Obviously seen Sean Connery in the Untouchables. Closer, geographically, than his 'Russian' accent for Red October :)

Don't forget Highlander where you have Connery, a Scot, playing a Spaniard and Christopher Lambert who is an American raised in Switzerland playing a Scot.  Then of course there was Clancy Brown, another American, playing Victor Kruger/The Kurgan who is Russian and Peter Diamond, an Englishman, playing Iman Fasil who was apparently born in France.  Confused much?

"Don't forget Highlander where you have Connery, a Scot, playing a Spaniard"

Egyptian actually...

Connor MacLeod: I cannot swim you Spanish peacock.
Ramirez: I'm not Spanish, I'm Egyptian.
Connor MacLeod: You said you were from Spain! You're a liar!

I sometimes wonder if the 'American' Irish accent is totally made up; I have a sneaking suspicion that no one in the Emerald Isle actually talks like that...;)

Quote - I sometimes wonder if the 'American' Irish accent is totally made up; I have a sneaking suspicion that no one in the Emerald Isle actually talks like that...;)

They don't the American version of the accent is based on the Lucky Charms leprechaun (leipreachán).  Hehehe   

There's an Irish actress on the TV show Merlin and although you can hear it slightly sometimes, she almost sounds like she has no accent (or American from my perspective...lol).

Can't remember her name, but it's the girl that plays Morgana.

Laurie

Quote - There's an Irish actress on the TV show Merlin and although you can hear it slightly sometimes, she almost sounds like she has no accent (or American from my perspective...lol).

Can't remember her name, but it's the girl that plays Morgana.

Laurie

Katie McGrath  :wub:

Yes, she's a real beauty, isn't she? LOL

Laurie

Oh My God yes she is. :D

Okay, chiming in.

Claudia Black, who plays Vala in Stargate, is Australian -- and does one of the most atrocious British accents I've heard in a long time.

Awful. Cringeworthy.

Mmmm, Claudia Black top to toe in leather as Aeryn Soong in Farscape. Not bothered about the accent :)

Ah yes, Fartscrape.  Claire used to watch that.  Bloody terrible show.  Like a rehash of Lost in Space, only worse.

Oh no! There's been a lot worse with higher budgets. Style-wise it borrowed from Mad Max and The Matrix but at least they made an effort to make some of the aliens properly alien even if they were Henson puppets. It also didn't take itself too seriously and had a sense of humour

"It also didn't take itself too seriously and had a sense of humour"

Which is just as well, seeing as it was utter garbage.

I agree there have been worse shows but that's hardly a recommendation. :)