>Which is infinitely better than what TLC did to Channel Four's
>Scrapheap Challenge. They brought the first season of
>SC to the US as Junkyard Wars (because, apparently,
>Americans are too stupid to know what a scrapheap is, and we don't
>like challenges - everything we do has to be a "war"), saw that it was
>popular, and took over the show, in the process making it
>(IMHO) quite naff. They let Cathy stay on, which was quite nice of
>them given that she created the show, but they replaced the host and
>started getting all American competitors.
>
It should be noted that even amoungst us JYW fans there is a marked prefference for Robert Llywellin's dry welsh humor.