British quirkiness and originality light up stage and screen for US audiences
Aardman's Arthur Christmas has joined a long list of UK-generated successes in the StatesA large American man sits in a swivel chair, chewing the end of a fat cigar. He is, in this hackneyed scenario from the annals of entertainment, either a Broadway producer or a Hollywood mogul, and he is not happy with the work of his writers. "But how will it play in Peoria?" he asks, in the time-honoured phrase from vaudeville,…