Divided By A Common Language

On Waterloo Road last night (well, what else was there, The Moral Maze?), we had, among other things, “advertisement” (or rather, I suppose, “advertizement”) and “privacy”. The broadcasters have long treated London as more or less in one of those parts of America of which they themselves happen to approve. They may even have a point. But Rochdale? Where next, and why?