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Article: On the road to nowhere
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- New Statesman
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- October 20, 2008
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If nothing else, Fry's ramble proves that class is alive and kicking in the US
Stephen Fry in America
BBC1
In hard times, people watch more television and they don't go on holiday, which means, in theory, that Stephen Fry's new series (Sundays, 9pm) will get nice ratings. Around Britain, people will sit in front of it, eating their Domino's pizzas and drinking their Lidl cava, and dream of what they are missing now that Virgin flights to New York and beyond no longer seem the bargain they were five minutes ago: the fall of leaves in New England, the rattle of slot machines in Nevada, the whirr of cicadas in sticky old Georgia.
Then again, perhaps, like me, they will be struck by its weird ...