Attention, TV Squad readers, my friends and fellow television fans, it's time to announce the winner for The Excellence in Outsourcing Award, that is, the foreign actor who possesses the best American accent. There were many worthy nominees, but the overwhelming winner was House, MD himself, actor Hugh Laurie. That Englishman, one of her majesty's loyal subjects, has been making us all believe that he's just a Jersey boy. As Dr. Gregory House of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, he sounds like he was born in south Jersey, spent his summers in Asbury Park, and is as much a Garden Stater as Bruce Springsteen and Tony Soprano.Gallery: Hugh Laurie
Weird TV news of the day: British farmers are protesting - and I mean really protesting, with signs and everything - the use of the word "couch potato." They think it makes the potato seem like an "unhealthy" food. They held the protest in Oxford, England, because the protestors had written a letter to the Oxford English Dictionary asking that they reconsider their listing of the word and the definition they used: "a person who spends leisure time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes." They want the term taken out and replaced with the term "couch slouch." But doesn't this discriminate against people who slouch? And what if your last name happens to be Slouch? 
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