ABC to remake Spooks in the USA!

[bertowud]

(19-08-2010 03:03 AM)Skully Wrote:  Where did Malcolm retire to? Florida? haha

I'll have to start keeping an eye out for him.

[ender]

Amazing even the Sun is black. As is Spooks future in Amerika.

[Tomsdouble]

Ah the Red Dwarf remake....wasn't Jadzia Dax from Deep Space 9 in it playing the Cat? Wonder who played Rimmer, Rosanne Barr? Kris Kristofferson?

I just question the whole need to do remakes of another country's show in the first place. If the original is good enough then it should transcend cultural boundaries without the need for it to be re-done in the image of country X. I love BSG and Frasier and just getting into the Wire. They should never be remade or by us or anyone else. You cannot improve on perfection!

[bertowud]

But if we didn't remake shows from other countries we never would have gotten Sanford & Son.

[A Cousin]

(24-08-2010 09:55 PM)bertowud Wrote:  But if we didn't remake shows from other countries we never would have gotten Sanford & Son.

Or The Office or Three's Company (Man About the House) or All In The Family (Til Death Us Do Part) or Maude (Nobody's Perfect) or Good Times (The Fosters) ... Oh, god, I'm old!

This does not stop me from being very afraid of an American version of Spooks from an artistic POV. However, as mentioned by TeaLady a while back, I hope Kudos takes the money and runs right back to the UK to series 10 and beyond! The only loser will be Disney and they can absorb that just kind of loss with barely a blink.

Great! Now I have the Sanford & Son theme in my brain! 'Lizabeth! I'm comin', 'Lizabeth!

[Tomsdouble]

OK, in that case I want to see the BBC remake 24, starring Leslie Phillips and set in a factory where they make skips. It'll only be 6 episodes long however so each hour will be 4 hours long. But luckily for the viewer some time terrorists have stolen normal time and bent it out of shape after kidnapping Stephen Hawking and getting time's secrets out of him.....yeah, it's as good as written...

Nothing against those fine 'remakes', I just think it's intellectually lazy! It's an act of cultural thievery. But, as always, money is the key.

[Tea Lady]

(25-08-2010 10:17 AM)Tomsdouble Wrote:  OK, in that case I want to see the BBC remake 24, starring Leslie Phillips and set in a factory where they make skips. It'll only be 6 episodes long however so each hour will be 4 hours long.

LOL. That's so funny Tomsdouble.

[bertowud]

(25-08-2010 02:25 AM)A Cousin Wrote:  Great! Now I have the Sanford & Son theme in my brain! 'Lizabeth! I'm comin', 'Lizabeth!

You know that's how Red Foxx died don't you? He had a heart attack and no one believed it, so they didn't call an ambulance or perform CPR.

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(25-08-2010 10:17 AM)Tomsdouble Wrote:  Nothing against those fine 'remakes', I just think it's intellectually lazy! It's an act of cultural thievery. But, as always, money is the key.

Are there any original ideas left? It's all in what you do with them. Of course, money is the key.

In general I am opposed to those types of remakes, but there is the slightly more than occasional gem in the pile.

[Tomsdouble]

Cheers, Tea Lady!

Bertowud, I suppose I am being a little pig-headed. It just seems intellectually lazy and usually results in deplorable telly.

I'm off now to work on this time terrorist drama before an American network nicks the idea; has to be better than the toxic fug of despair that is reality television.

Right, where did I put Leslie Phillips' phone number......

[bertowud]

LOL! I get what you're saying and you're right. Most of the time it is garbage. Sometimes it works. I It seems it works especially if the team working on it are especially inspired and take the concept to a new level.

I watched the first three episodes of the US Life on Mars and it was painful, but not because it was poorly done. It was just because it had been done so well already. So I stopped watching.

Coupling on the other hand was weird. I had watched a few episodes on BBC America. It was reasonably funny in a Friends sort of way, but nothing great. The US version used the same scripts except for changing the Anglicisms to American equivalents and it was painful to watch.

And then you have The Office, which many see the US product as superior to the British version.

I guess, if they can come up with something good, regardless of the source and make it their own, I don't really care what the source is. If they're just making a pale copy, I'll pass.

I'd enjoy a US version if I didn't already "know" that Disney was going to screw it up. I'd give it 3 episodes and make a decision. They don't seem to be very good at adapting programs from other sources (except for possibly V).

YMMV!