South Africa has a new situation comedy with a cast and crew of deaf people. It’s called Rex’s Place.
That’s great. Fifteen years ago in America we had the drama Reasonable Doubts with Marlee Matlin (deaf signer) and Mark Harmon (hearing). As I recall, Harmon’s character was supposed to have a deaf mother, so he knew how to sign. However, for the audience he had to talk and sign at the same time, so the talking was perfect and the signing was abbreviated. His signing was also jerky instead of fluid, so it was unpleasant to watch. They should have just said his character had studied some ASL (American Sign Language) in college years ago.
I wish there were more shows with signing deaf actors playing signing deaf characters. The pool of actors is small, but there are some very talented people out there.