Originally Posted by Canto What I don't understand is that they've tried to do it exactly like the british version LOL
Except make it into a pantomime. Why does Gene Hunt look like he's on deaths door? Why is Sam Tyler now a brick sh*thouse? Why have they mixed them 2 other DI's into 1? What's with the ultimately poor incidental music?
I cannot understand why they don't just show our version? We like watching American shows, we get them. Is it because a) Americans just don't/can't get our shows or b) the t.v. companies just think the American audience is dumb and is trying to tell them what they like?
If you are American, please don't take offence to this as i just don't understand! Imagine if we re-made Friends, the English way, instead of broadcasting your original shows. It would be stupid! Please, if you're American, comment and let me know
We've tried to do the Friends formula and it worked a little (Cold Feet) and broke (Coupling).
They (Hollywood?) make the humour much too obvious, maybe they don't like/get the precise subtleties?
Originally Posted by Mark Radon I cannot understand why they don't just show our version? We like watching American shows, we get them. Is it because a) Americans just don't/can't get our shows or b) the t.v. companies just think the American audience is dumb and is trying to tell them what they like?
If you are American, please don't take offence to this as i just don't understand! Imagine if we re-made Friends, the English way, instead of broadcasting your original shows. It would be stupid! Please, if you're American, comment and let me know
The American sense of humour is very different from the British, that and the fact that they'd hate to show anything British on TV, being so patriotic.If they do, they usually do voice overs to give all the characters American accents, like when they changed some of the words in the Harry Potter books to suit the American audience. I'm shocked the Little Britain USA series have actually been allowed have a show there on HBO.
Lol, the entire world has a different sense of humor from the British. I don't laugh at 90% of british comedies.
Anyway, it's cheaper to remake shows. If people watch them, that is. With the wages Friends actors get, I could imagine that purchasing the series would be quite expensive.
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We do get British shows. Or at least, we can. >_> (I have rabbit ears) I was at a friend's house and there was a minute-long ad about the BBC America channel. I was cracking up listening to them saying "the best of american british shows" or something to that effect. They had a giant American flag in the background with british show clips going across the screen. x)
Alot of Americans don't get british humor. That, and we love redoing things.
Originally Posted by M Lol, the entire world has a different sense of humor from the British. I don't laugh at 90% of british comedies.
Anyway, it's cheaper to remake shows. If people watch them, that is. With the wages Friends actors get, I could imagine that purchasing the series would be quite expensive.
No, Australians are pretty much on the same wave length. A lot of Brits like Barry Humphries, for example.
Could you imagine if we hadn't imported Friends though, and instead recast everyone and changed the script yet still called it Friends? I think that would be crazy!
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I'm American.
Hahah, but i like SOME British comedy, and a lot I can't understand if there accent is too heavy.
but there is British stuff on American TV.
Like OMC said, theres the BBC channel.
Your just jealous that you're not as awesome as me.
(And my megaman avatar )
Do you not agree? I cannot think of anything on the BBC that is even half-funny. Look at what it used to churn out; Only Fools and Horses, The Fast Show, The Vicar of Dibley, One Foot In The Grave, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Men Behaving Badly, Monty Python, Red Dwarf, Steptoe and Son, Alan Partridge, The Royal Family.... there are some in there that everyone will like.
now look at what it has introduced recently; The Mighty Boosh, The Smoking Room, Gavin and Stacey, My Hero, Jam and Jerusalum, Catherine Tate, even Little Britain has it's stale moments.
I just don't think they make em like they used to, in my opinion. Not many of the newer shows listed here will still be watched in 50 years time, unlike the shows we still watch now.
I have to agree Mark. The BBC are going for this shallow comedy at the moment with second rate comedians. But the mofo legends like Armando Iannucci... Well he only got series of Time Trumpet before the BBC said stop And MeeBox? That didn't get past the pilot stage despite it being one of the few genuinely funny comedies.
Harry and Paul. URGH. What an absolute destruction of a historically good duo.
Good news is that Dave have commissioned new 2-4 new Red Dwarf episodes. So it's not all doom and gloom.
But seriously why do they cancel GOOD comedy? Futurama's a good example of it too. Yet recycled stuff like Little Britain and The Simpsons storm on
My faith in comedy has returned! Anyone see the Britains got the pop factor (etcetcetec)? Funniest thing I've pretty much ever seen, even better than Phoenix Nights
I really like Two Pints of Larger and a packet of crisps, too >_<;;. Most of the humour is corny or cheesey (sometimes cringingly so), but I always find myself watching it late at night on BBC3
Hollywood = desparate. Here in america there is NO originality. (Just like my plagarizing cousin. ) Yeah, the series sounds pretty lame. I think they're looking to much forward to "Project: Virgle".
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I was cracking up listening to them saying "the best of american british shows" or something to that effect. 
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And MeeBox? That didn't get past the pilot stage despite it being one of the few genuinely funny comedies.
