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I've read that a pilot episode of The Office went down so well in America so they are deciding...wait for it...to remake the show with American actors! Whats going on? Every time we have a TV show made in this country that does quite well, it gets taken over to the good old US of A when the butcher it by remaking it with their own actors...when will they learn. By converting The Office into an American format you're going to loose the marvellous talent of Gervais and his complete ignorance for humanity - you won't find anyone that'll be that good in that role, anywhere.
When will American society actually let someone else have an influence on their media and entertainment circuits. Other TV shows that have done well over here have attempted to be remade but then sunk to the bottom of the ratings quicker than the Titanic. Men Behaving Badly, Absolutely Fabulous, Bottom - they all got sold to American TV companies but they wanted to use their own actors and remake it, changing the storylines, lets face it, completely. What would have happened if we had turned around to the yanks and said "now just hold on there, ya yellow bellied, petrol guzzling yank...we want ya show, but we are gonna remake it". What would then have happened to Friends, Fraiser, Saved by the Bell (ok maybe not that one) - they would have been ruined, because the original actors know whats going on more so that the people remaking it. The actors remaking it will see the original show to get ideas but won't know what the original actor was thinking that made them so funny in the first place.
I will give them the benefit of the doubt though as there was nothing that could have saved The Weakest Link whether they had kept the same host or not! If the Americans are taking shows and trying to make them even better, then why don't we give them some of our shows that would even make you dog keel over if you made him/her watch it. Lets see what they could do then, with a pants format show that smells like a warehouse full of cheese....would it come back cheesier, or would it come back a hit and make us look like fools with the inability to act?
One things for sure though, while we continue to make great shows such as My Family, The Office, So Graham Norton the Americans will continue to go "I love it", buy the format, and then turning it into something resembling Toilet Duck...Expensive, Only good for theToilet, and leaves a bad taste in your mouth!
When will American society actually let someone else have an influence on their media and entertainment circuits. Other TV shows that have done well over here have attempted to be remade but then sunk to the bottom of the ratings quicker than the Titanic. Men Behaving Badly, Absolutely Fabulous, Bottom - they all got sold to American TV companies but they wanted to use their own actors and remake it, changing the storylines, lets face it, completely. What would have happened if we had turned around to the yanks and said "now just hold on there, ya yellow bellied, petrol guzzling yank...we want ya show, but we are gonna remake it". What would then have happened to Friends, Fraiser, Saved by the Bell (ok maybe not that one) - they would have been ruined, because the original actors know whats going on more so that the people remaking it. The actors remaking it will see the original show to get ideas but won't know what the original actor was thinking that made them so funny in the first place.
I will give them the benefit of the doubt though as there was nothing that could have saved The Weakest Link whether they had kept the same host or not! If the Americans are taking shows and trying to make them even better, then why don't we give them some of our shows that would even make you dog keel over if you made him/her watch it. Lets see what they could do then, with a pants format show that smells like a warehouse full of cheese....would it come back cheesier, or would it come back a hit and make us look like fools with the inability to act?
One things for sure though, while we continue to make great shows such as My Family, The Office, So Graham Norton the Americans will continue to go "I love it", buy the format, and then turning it into something resembling Toilet Duck...Expensive, Only good for theToilet, and leaves a bad taste in your mouth!
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Vice wrote:
> i can't see how the american's get the office though, i mean there is
> no laugh track to it, they might think it's a serious program though
True...they probably see it as an actual documentary of what it's like in a British Office!
> i can't see how the american's get the office though, i mean there is
> no laugh track to it, they might think it's a serious program though
True...they probably see it as an actual documentary of what it's like in a British Office!
we remade 'whose the boss?' as 'the upper hand' and it blew monkey balls.
then again so did the original Tony Danza programme
then again so did the original Tony Danza programme
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