Now here's a reality show I would watch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/interrogators.shtml
Not only is it a great concept (we love to watch other people squirm), but it incorporates proven psychological theories regarding facial expressions and their subtleties. I do believe that the BBC/TLC also produced a mini series/documentary with John Cleese, "The Human Face" on this very subject. It was fascinating and it incorporated the holy number - 1.618, phi. This is an ancient number which is supposdly the perfect proportion, used to measure beauty, in architecture, it can be applied to anything. It was referenced in the series, mostly with regard to beauty, and you can even download a mask to a transparency, superimpose it over a picture of yourself and see how truly mathematically beautiful you are: http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/humanface/articles/mask.html
I never did it, but I'm gonna now!
However, funnily enough during my morning news browsing, I came upon a nutrition article referencing the 'golden number.' I thought, "Wow, why wouldn't it work for that too??!!" This is only a snippet, but once again, the power of numbers and history to help us navigate through our modern f*&%ed-up society: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=534&e=3&u=/ap/20040615/ap_on_he_me/fit_da_vinci_diet
So maybe my fixation is not necessarily with the British, but perhaps with the place "where the history is."*
*Quote from Eddie Izzard, "Dress To Kill"
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