Survivor
The Weakest Link
Trading Spaces
Junkyard Wars (which, BTW, the original was FAR better than the grunge rock
version available now, IMHO)
I am sure that there are many more...
-----Original Message-----
From: William H Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 12:17 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: the office
But American TV has been doing this sort of thing for years. Just a few
years ago we had Men Behaving Badly which was based on a BBC show of the
same name IIRC. John Larroquette (sp?...the lawyer guy from Night Court)
was in a show (don't remember the title) that was a direct lift of
Faulty Towers (John Cleese), though I don't think it was called that the
second time 'round.
Cracker starring Murphy Brown's painter was a pretty good remake of the
Robbie Coltraine BBC show of the same name, though the Brit version was
far superior.
And even All in the Family was a remake of a BBC show IIRC.
So there's quite a history there...
Marlon Moyer wrote:
> I only saw one episode of the coupling on our local PBS station one
> night. Thought it was a hillarious show. Turned couplings on last
> night, and was surprised that it was the exact same show right down to
> the script as the BBC one, except they had replaced Bush,republican,and
> democrat for their respective counterparts from the UK.
>
> It's amazing how unimaginitive the shows have become lately.
>
> marlon
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> Charlie Griefer wrote:
>
> > The american version of coupling is ...wow..words fail me.
> >
> > The scripts are very nearly identical, word for word. The acting is
> > bad. I
> > mean even for a sitcom bad.
> >
> > Just makes me wonder...if we American folk had no intention of even
> > changing
> > a word in the script...why even pay bad american actors? Just run
> the BBC
> > version on network TV.
> >
> > charlie
> > (grateful for BBC-America)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 3:34 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: RE: the office
> >
> >
> > yep its great!
> >
> > on a side note
> > in our ever expanding lack of creativity we took a beautiful bbc show
> > "coupling" and made it American...
> >
> > not even going to watch it..
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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