Life on Mars (American version)

[Yuwipi Woman]

they have, essentially. It's called Silent Witness

I'll see if I can find it on Bittorent.

 

[Griff]

Are You Being Served and of course, period dramas.

Oh dear.

The original Life on Mars is excellent and well worth watching by the way.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I think BBC America show a lot of British shows, and PBS, not that anyone really watches those channels.

Top Gear seems to be a hit. Even the rednecks like it.

 

[Griff]

Top Gear seems to be a hit. Even the rednecks like it.

Did they show the one where they all drove down South? The rednecks weren't best pleased.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Did they show the one where they all drove down South? The rednecks weren't best pleased.

Actually, its a toss up between that one and the one where the jet races the car that my redneck friends like the most. They had to record both and show me when I went over to their house. They thought it was funny that they almost didn't get out alive....

 

[Sunray]

When you watch a film or TV show set in another culture, you broaden your horizons and learn something about the world. We watch American films with Appalachian pensioners slurring through their false teeth about grits and Oreos. And we do so without demanding subtitles, or a remake set in Wolverhampton.

That's because we have been watching and learning about US culture from a young age and something you can imagine isn't true the other way round.

 

[Belushi]

Oh no - I assumed they were going to take the procedural format but with new stories not re-hash American ones.

Mind you I also suspect it may end up just being a bigger brighter glossier version of "The Bill"!

I've just discovered from wikipedia that Bradley Walsh is also going to be in it

 

[Iguana]

We don't exactly do great versions of their shows, either. Golden Girls/Brighton Belles, anyone?

There was also Days Like These

The British That 70's Show.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I'd actually like to see something like CSI: London. It would be an interesting take on cultural difference. Naturally, they'd have to have a lead-in by a Who song.

I've said it a million times, but I'd like to see a British version of the A-Team.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I've just discovered from wikipedia that Bradley Walsh is also going to be in it

My heart has just sunk even further

 

[Grub str. hack]

Can't find a site where UK veiwers can watch a whole episode but, the preveiws and trailers I've found look reasuringly shite.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I've said it a million times, but I'd like to see a British version of the A-Team.

I don't think it would be quite the same if it was four guys driving around in a mini without any big fuck off guns.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I don't think it would be quite the same if it was four guys driving around in a mini without any big fuck off guns.

It wouldn't be. It would be set in teh early 90s and feature four (first) Gulf War dropouts who were protestor/travellers, travelling around in a traveller van (naturally painted like the A team one).

It couldn't be set in modern day Britain as we are too surveillance obsessed these days. They would get caught in 10 seconds.

 

[rollinder]

the recapist isn't too impressed
http://www.recapist.com/2008/10/18/...dventures-of-the-unreal-sam-tyler-episode-102