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For years and years you guys have been remaking excellent quality television from Britain. No idea why your TV executives seem to think you can't handle these shows in their natural form but they continue to remake them and leave out one important ingredient, the awesome. One of my favourite TV shows of the last couple of years was a show called Life on Mars, amazingly genius bit of TV. Modern day cop has an accident, ends up in a coma, wakes up in 1972. It's pure brilliance, funny, exciting, smart all good stuff. Someone was apparently unhappy with John Simm and Philip Glennister being brilliant and replaced them with some dude i've never heard of and Chief O'Brien from Deep Space Nine. As with all the things that get remade, it's just missing that ingredient that made it great and it's so bland and exceptionally average. Ok, this has turned into a bit of a rant so i'll stop now. It's just frustrating when you see something you like being ruined.
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colm meany is in so many remakes! and other stuff too, i doubt that he wakes up at 6:15am every morning and frantically calls his manager with a hearty "DIDIGETANYMOREREMAKESCRIPTS?!" that would be so awesome.
but hey buddy, at least we never remade black adder, now let's go get some iced cream. -
It's because all the flower children are now of the age where they are in charge of the studios. All those drugs fried their brains and they can't make a smart decision on shows!
"This is the earth. And this is Pinky. You can tell the difference quite easily. One is a lump of inert matter hurtling blindly through the void. The other... is the earth." -The Brain -
Do you really think it's just television? Hell, just yesterday I took a ferry from NEW York to NEW Jersey!
On occasion we do get it right though. The Office is the obvious example, but don't forget about Friends, which came from Coupling. We'll just forget about the more recent attempt to make an ACTUAL American "Coupling" series. -
I like the American version of the Office more than the British version, but that's only because the American one has succeeded in lasting a long time while constantly coming up with great storylines. I think if they would have stuck to the documentary logistics of the original (how the show seemed to work in the first season), the show would have fallen flat fast. That being said, the British one was fucking hilarious.
FREE LOVE ON THE FREE LOVE FREEWAY.
I'm really happy the plans to do an American version of Spaced got canceled. That show is brilliant. Where are they airing the bad Life On Mars remake? I've never seen the original, but I love the concept. -
Posted By: Seanbut don't forget about Friends, which came from Coupling.
Unless I'm mistaken, Friends came first. Coupling didn't start until 2000.
...Not that I'm in any way defending Friends (I haven't seen Coupling, so I can't judge); it had its (very few) moments, but it was mostly the same shit over and over again.
When I was seeing this girl, she forced me to sit through the finale. Afterwards, she was crying and gushy. I felt not a thing, except maybe relief that they finally put the axe to that show. -
Posted By: SeanPosted By: EddieUnless I'm mistaken, Friends came first. Coupling didn't start until 2000.
Wikipedia says you're absolutely right. Strange, I always thought that Friends was a copy of Coupling. Now I want to know where I got that idea from!!I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
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Posted By: Jonny AceIn that respect: Go cavemen!!! teehee
We need to form a fellowship and take back the ring from those damned Geico marketers."This is the earth. And this is Pinky. You can tell the difference quite easily. One is a lump of inert matter hurtling blindly through the void. The other... is the earth." -The Brain -
We could forge an alliance with the Capital One horde!
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Capital One I actually like, because they're not fucking beating it to death. If I see that caveman go buy that ad on the people mover in the airport one more time, I'm going to kill somebody.
Plus space kittens are awesome! Meow."This is the earth. And this is Pinky. You can tell the difference quite easily. One is a lump of inert matter hurtling blindly through the void. The other... is the earth." -The Brain -
Posted By: 15step
I'm really happy the plans to do an American version of Spaced got canceled. That show is brilliant. Where are they airing the bad Life On Mars remake? I've never seen the original, but I love the concept.Live every week like it's shark week.
Life On Mars doesn't air until the fall. Frankly, I think Ferros is being a little crazy. The remake train goes both ways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_TV_shows_remade_for_the_American_market
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_television_series_remade_for_the_British_market
It seems like you Brits mostly like copying our game shows, but there are scripted dramas on there as well. -
Posted By: ArcysCapital One I actually like, because they're not fucking beating it to death. If I see that caveman go buy that ad on the people mover in the airport one more time, I'm going to kill somebody.
Plus space kittens are awesome! Meow.We were bareley seventeen and we were barely dressed!
Do you perhaps mean WAR KITTENS!!??? My current favorite commercial! -
Posted By: deniseis this the place to go on my tirade about asian movie remakes?
One of my favorite movies is actually made better by watching both versions of it. Seeing "Seven Samurai" and then "The Magnificent Seven" back-to-back gave me a much deeper appreciation for both films. If you've never done it, I highly recommend it.
Oh, and The Ring. Beats the hell out of that Ringu crap. (*ducks*) -
Posted By: deniseis this the place to go on my tirade about asian movie remakes?
although all isalmostforgiven by the near-flawless "The Departed." the orignal movie "Infernal Affairs" was badassery but i loves me some scorsese. damon, leo, and marky mark didn't hurt anything either.resident girl
Dammit, I thought I'd found one other person who disliked "The Departed" until I read that second paragraph. I though IA was infinite times better... -
Didn't Shakespeare, ah, borrow for most of his stories?
And as for using British content, perhaps I'm working under the ignorant American impression that you guys have like, three to eight channels of original programming. Where as the US churns out about twenty times that. And films, sheesh, seems you can't hardly spit without hitting a camera crew theses days. We're having to steal from everything.
But honestly? I'd rather have BBC 1-3 than the thirty channels we have on our basic cable package. Even the Discovery Channel is managing to suck lately. -
this probably goes on the Movie thread as well...
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Posted By: denisethis probably goes on the Movie thread as well...
this made my brain sadresident girl
I'll file this under "Everything you love will someday be resold to you." When is this shit gonna stop? Cowboy Bebop was like, perfectly contained in it's single season. It's own movie even (I feel) detracted from the tale. I fail to see how live action will retell this story any better than has already been done. The only good thing to potentially come out of this would be more original music from Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts. -
you guys WANT bbc?!?!?!? ITS RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! seriously!!!! they have dr who, mock the week and QI and THAT IS IT!!!!!
channel 4 and dave, that's where its at!
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