JS:TO TV show goes international
According to the Independent on Sunday, the producers of JS:TO are taking the show to the world’s largest television marketplace, Mip TV in Cannes this week.
Interest has been expressed by several English-speaking countries including Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA, as well as a number of European “opera nations”.
John Thoday of Avalon says,
It’s a way of perpetuating the show and generating a bit of revenue for the tour when it happens.
I find it slightly hard to believe that they’ve even entertaining the notion of showing it on TV in the USA. It is, after all, the country where it’s illegal to say “god damn” on TV. We’re fairly secular in the UK and the religious outcry over it was pretty severe.