On a serious note this was a classic case of American audio description for a British tv show. The canal in question was Camden Lock. Quite a famous canal. A contextually important canal. Something the AD script was clearly unaware of. So yeah, fact check your regional AD.

@BlondeHistorian Ok but what is the difference between a river and a canal?? Are they not the same??

@ghostonthstereo Nope. Canals are man made.

@BlondeHistorian This is fantastic Audio description commentary thank you there’s a Netflix show that said “she weeps” and my partner was like there is a single tear idk what the fuck they’re talking about lol

@BlondeHistorian My wife does the same for me. The AD for good omens 2 is bloody awful.

@BlondeHistorian I was doing this the other day! The audio description for The Full Monty tv series keeps saying they are on a bus (it’s a tram) they’re in a wood (it’s a local reservoir) run down flats (the done up park hill flats they used for Yaz’s family in Doctor Who)

@BlondeHistorian I love this! I use captions too and sometimes the mismatch between what’s shown and what’s written is just plain bizarre. And I do the same thing as your partner - keep correcting it!

@BlondeHistorian I like to use captions and AD most of the time, and honestly I think AD can really enhance a work. It helps me know what they want me to focus on in a scene, and sometimes I can't read emotions so it's helpful to have those labeled. It's like aun audiobook

@BlondeHistorian i saw a trailer a while ago and the audio description kept using [bleep] instead of the actual curse words being used. it really takes away from the scene and types of personalities involved

@BlondeHistorian This is me correcting the subtitles of shows we are watching to my husband 'suspenseful music plays' me '90s pop, suspenseful my bum' . 'melancholy music starts' me 'a nice calming tune'. He usually makes me stop.