Two countries separated by a common language, and etc. Cognisant of such transatlantic riptides, NBC will echo its approach to Premier League football and carry British match commentary.
"It is very difficult when you are playing with 10 men as Gareth Bale did not show up," said Roy Keane, unsparing on the British television commentary as the Spanish side went down 2-1 to Juventus in the semi-final first leg.
British television commentary is doused in irony and often draws attention to the way in which neighbours tend to vote for one another: the Greeks and Cypriots can always be relied upon to give each other high scores, and there is plenty of Baltic and Nordic solidarity.
But it is also the case that British newspaper commentary is among the liveliest, most combative and sharpest in the world; that it is now seen by editors and owners as more important than reporting, at least as measured in the amount of money paid to commentators as against that paid to reporters.
In "Private Plane", after receiving word that Blackadder and Baldrick may have been killed when shot down over German lines, Melchett tries to cheer George up by showing him a life-size model (measuring seventeen square feet) of land recaptured by the British, a commentary on the high human cost and small physical gains achieved by attacks in the middle years of the war.
Clare Balding, a presenter for the BBC, turned to Mark Foster, a retired British swimmer providing commentary.
This and other furious charges (eg that I think the US is uniquely evil, can solve every problem in the world, etc) is based entirely on the fact that the collection of op-eds that he reviews (Making the Future) focuses on US and British policies and commentary, a natural and entirely appropriate concern.
[Warning to our British readers: this commentary contains spoilers for this week's episode that has yet to air in the UK.] It's August 1968 on Mad Men, and as protesters riot at the Democratic National Convention, the disintegration of the establishment, along with many of the characters' lives, is in full swing.
"It's very difficult when you have four or five days off in a row in the middle of a Slam," said Greg Rusedski, the former United States Open finalist, who is doing commentary for British television.
In an accompanying commentary, two British geologists who were not involved in the research wrote that some scientists had suspected the greater time scale for the canyon's formation, but that the new study "demonstrates it firmly for the first time".
