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Junkyard Wars
2001 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 15 seasons
Two rival teams face off to overcome the challenge of the episode's theme. Using mechanical prowess, engineering, luck, and problem solving, they rely on using only the items found in an unusually well-stocked junkyard to rise to the occasion in the hopes of becoming the Junkyard Wars Season Champion! Junkyard Wars was adapted from the UK TV Series titled "Scrapheap Challenge".
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It's interesting comparing the text of this report from CNN with the text of the BBC report submitted here earlier:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2921195
According to the BBC the spacecraft was lost, according to CNN it crashed. It reminds me of the different titling of some TV shows. The UK program "Scrapheap Challenge" was renamed to "Junkyard Wars." No longer a challenge, the media decided that the US audience reacts better to a war.
The language also sometimes reflects the expected audience knowledge, just as the "Philosopher's Stone" becoming the "Sorcerer's Stone" in the US version of the first Harry Potter book.
In these times of increasingly international business, we are perhaps reminded that our web sites and advertising material might need to take these sorts of differences into account. I've frequently found some US web sites to be overly brash, or strident, but perhaps they're just catering for different demographics.
Any other observations?