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| Christ! There's a difference! Mmmmm. John Nettles. :wub: Sorry. :blush: |
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| Just had to Google Peter Firth (ooh err missus!). No. Not my cup of Earl Grey. My current lusts are Sully (natch) and Ken Stott. |
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| Why don`t they just buy more of our series ? :shrug: |
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Probably because the networks would run square into the unions who would see importing shows as taking their jobs away. That's not any different that the foreign trade unions reaction to US imports. Another reason occurs to me. The British produce only a few shows per season. They would need to ramp up (with American financing no doubt) to produce enuf for an American season. (Still, that would probably be cheaper than the expensive Los Angeles product.) |
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| I suppose the UK shows could be bought by Showtime, or one of those channels which produce 13-episode seasons like Huff. :unsure: |
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| If you want to see how complicated the history of the US broadcast of DR WHO, check out this Wikipedia article. |
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| On November 22, 1987, during a broadcast of the serial Horror of Fang Rock on Chicago, Illinois PBS affiliate WTTW-TV an unknown hacker wearing a Max Headroom mask jammed WTTW's broadcast signal and replaced it with their own audio and video for 88 seconds, concluding with the masked man being hit on his bare butt with a fly swatter. This incident was investigated by the Federal Communications Commission but the culprit's identity was never determined. |
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| Source: comingsoon.net October 30, 2007 Fox is teaming with writer Adam Barr and producer McG for "Spaced," a comedy project based on the Channel 4 series of the same name from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz masterminds Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox has handed out a put pilot commitment to the single-camera "Spaced," which hails from Warner Bros. TV, McG's WBTV-based Wonderland Sound and Vision and Granada America, which owns the format. The project revolves around two strangers who pose as a married couple in order to rent an apartment. Barr ("Will & Grace") is writing the script, which garnered interest from several networks. He is executive producing with Wonderland's McG and Peter Johnson and Granada's Robert Green. The original series, which ran on Channel 4 for two seasons, was written by Pegg and Jessica Hynes who starred as the fake couple, and was directed by Wright. It earned two BAFTA nominations for best comedy series and an International Emmy nomination. |
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| The above article features this interesting nugget... "Wonderland's McG and Granada's Robert Green will exec produce alongside Barr; the extent of Pegg's and Wright's involvement is still unclear. But Johnson likens the effort to NBC's adaptation of Ricky Gervais' and Stephen Merchant's "The Office" for the U.S., with Greg Daniels in charge." The interesting part of that is, no-one has been in touch with me at all. Haven't deigned to get in contact. So my involvement is indeed very unclear. Would love to know what you all have to say about it. P.S. I can confirm too, that Simon was never contacted either. I don't really want to get involved at all, but it infuriates me that they would a) never bother to get in touch but still B) splash me and Simon's names all over the trade announcements and infer that we're involved in the same way Ricky & Steve were with The Office. Also, it's worth stressing that I will not be profiting from this reversion, nor do they have to get permission from me to make it. On a brighter note, these articles on the subject are hilarious. CHUD STORY! Twitch Story |
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Who creates and enjoys Sci Fi and Fantasy more - Brits or Yanks ? Question : In reviewing your column, I have seen some references to Life on Mars and Torchwood. I am an expatriate Brit and have been watching Doctor Who since I was a kid back in the ’60s. Doctor Who is practically an institution to the Brits who grew up with it, and of course Torchwood is a great recent spin-off. Life on Mars was, I thought, one of the most intelligent TV offerings in years (on either side of the pond). I love Moonlight and New Amsterdam, and I read and watch fantasy wherever I can get it. Over the years, when discussing a piece of recently enjoyed fantasy with my friends here in the U.S., I have noticed the Brits seem far more ready to suspend disbelief and go along for the ride. The Yanks seem to always be dissecting everything (scoffing regularly "as if that could happen.") I noticed this in their reaction to Moonlight (which caught on very quickly in Britain) and New Amsterdam, and many of them don’t even know about Life on Mars, Torchwood or the good doctor. I am not saying that no Americans have it in them to enjoy a good fantasy or that all Brits do, but have you noticed that the really imaginative stuff either comes from there or is more readily accepted there, and that all the reality drek, while not completely ignored, does not do so well there ? Are we Brits more imaginitive, more prepared to go for the ride and more willing to be amused rather than amazed ? — Lyn Matt Roush : Excuse me ? In hopes of stemming off an avalanche of heated responses from indignant Yanks, can I just offer up a few choice titles like The X-Files, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Battlestar Galactica (current version), Farscape, all the way back to The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits — and, dare we mention, Star Trek ? — if anyone wants to play the anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better game. The appetite for fantasy and sci-fi is as strong here as it is anywhere, but the mass marketplace where U.S. broadcast TV is concerned can be a notoriously tough nut for many genre shows to crack. Whatever anyone thinks about Moonlight, its scheduling on Fridays was also going to make it a cult show at best. And if lots of Americans have yet to embrace Life on Mars and Torchwood, that may have something to do with their being primarily available on the relatively niche (though glorious) BBC America channel. As for reality TV : Where do you think many of our most popular concepts originated ? Europe. And in the case of American Idol, in the U.K. with Pop Idol. The idea that reality doesn’t sell across the pond is nonsense. Its pervasiveness in overseas markets has everything to do with why we’re constantly being assaulted by fresh (and often foul) new formats. |