redubbing

Yep, I hate that, too. I have the album, which features all the original voices, but on the TV, I can only watch the American redubbing, which just doesn't have the same flavour. Even the "A Christmas To Remember" DVD that I bought replaced the British voices (except for Lennie's band, thankfully). But then again, it isn't just a one-way thing: The Backyardigans also got a new dubbing when it was exported to the UK. Can you imagine that?

Now that they released the first Little Robots DVD in Brazil, I'm afraid to buy it. I just *can't* watch the Little Robots speaking American. Rusty will always be Morweena Banks and nobody else!

Not only do they redub the voices (whick is stupid), but they change some of the words! I can understand some words that aren't commonly used in the US (rashers=bacon, rubber=eraser), but in one episode they helped a family of hedgehogs, but called them porcupines!! They were *obviously* hedgehogs, too.

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To be honest, I don't think us Brits really like the American accent that much. There is a fear here that most kids have already picked up to many American-isms, as America is quickly taking over the world. Even some childrens books here have the original American spellings, and all our film industry is in-undated with US tosh. I think it is really all about trying to address the balance where possible, but America just keeps on pushing.

Americans don't like things that aren't American, thus they always redub and steal programmes for American remakes. They need to translate English into English.