* Mark Gallagher wrote:
Americans call a programme's series a
"season", and the programme itself
a "series".
You have no idea how much this confused me when I heard the recent Doctor
Who episodes (Rose Tyler & Captain Jack and the Bad Wolf and all that)
repeatedly called "the first series". I eventually figured out that they
meant 'first year of the latest television show about Doctor Who'... but
to us West-ponders it sounds like they are claiming the first Doctor Who
show was aired in 2005... rather than decades ago.