They apparently had to make the US viewers idea of what London looked like, which seems to be essentially New York, with a double decker bus, a cup of tea, and a cheeky chirpy cockney chappy talking a bit like “apples and pears”. I half expected the Queen to jump out from behind a tree with a collection of Corgis and a Beefeater.
Sadly true, if they saw the genuine London skyline, they’d probably think it was Dubai or NYC, what with all those big glass skyscrapers, n’all!
Most Americans are barely aware of what goes on outside their own city, let alone state, and as far as anywhere outside CONUS, well it might as well be Game Of Thrones, with ‘Here Be Dragons’ all over the map!
I’ve seen the LA Times, it had at least five or six supplements, the whole thing must have weighed about a kilo, and I could only find one page of international news! And not much more about the rest of the US.