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'Spaced' to get U.S. re-make

Marius said:
Because it insults the original by saying that its not good enough and so needs to be remade and then insults it further by being inferior so wasn't an improvement anyway.
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Oh come on... I'm sure Simon Pegg won't feel insulted at the (presumably) large sums of cash he'll be given to license his sitcom for a US remake.

There are a load of cultural references that will go over the heads of a lot of Americans, so they'll tailor it to a US audeince. Big deal. No one is being insulted, except a few precious Brits who, after all, aren't being forced to watch the remake.
 
Skim said:
Oh come on... I'm sure Simon Pegg won't feel insulted at the (presumably) large sums of cash he'll be given to license his sitcom for a US remake.
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Obsene amounts of money can lessen the insult which only demeans the author unfortunately. But they are laughing to the bank and so why should they care about selling their artisitic soul I guess?
 
Why do the Americans always remake shows? I don't get it at all.

Do we ever do remakes of american shows? Wasn't there a shit english sitcom which was supposed to be a remake of roseanne?
 
CyberRose said:
What the fuck is wrong with just showing the yanks the fucking "English accent" version?! Why does it have to be remade?! Fucking cunts. Do they not speak English in America or summat?!
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because the sense of humor is completely different. don't be so ethnocentric! Spaced won't translate well and it'll bomb atomically (not that I even watch american sitcoms in the first place)
 
I'm sure Simon Pegg is not feeling so "insulted" as pretty damn chuffed that his little sit-com is going to find a wider audience and gain him more recognition in the US. I doubt he feels he's selling his soul: most writers would be more than happy to get a foothold in the US, as well as make some money.
 
Rainingstairs said:
because the sense of humor is completely different. don't be so ethnocentric! Spaced won't translate well and it'll bomb atomically (not that I even watch american sitcoms in the first place)
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We're not that different from Americans as we'd like to think, really. Plenty of US sitcoms are watched here and pretty much all the cultural references understood. It doesn't work so well the other way round, US audiences can be a bit insular. But we all speak the same language. (Kind of.)

I reckon Spaced will translate quite well: it's only a souped-up flatshare comedy after all.

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And about why UK sitcoms have to be remade for the US: we only make them in very small quantities (like six shows a season), whereas Americans get in a team of writers and make a season last a long time. I guess a six-episode season doesn't make any commercial sense for a US network...
 
Skim said:
We're not that different from Americans as we'd like to think, really. Plenty of US sitcoms are watched here and pretty much all the cultural references understood. It doesn't work so well the other way round, US audiences can be a bit insular. But we all speak the same language. (Kind of.)

I reckon Spaced will translate quite well: it's only a souped-up flatshare comedy after all.

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And about why UK sitcoms have to be remade for the US: we only make them in very small quantities (like six shows a season), whereas Americans get in a team of writers and make a season last a long time. I guess a six-episode season doesn't make any commercial sense for a US network...
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fair enough. however there is a pronounced difference in what the two countries find funny.

I heard brits hated jerry lewis, american's loved him
americans would rather watch 9 seasons of "king of queens" than arrested development which only lasted 2 1/2 seasons :confused:
 
Dubversion said:
so is Watercolour Challenge. talk about damning with faint praise :D
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still, beats being unwatchable, which I'd imagine this remake will be.


Most decidedly a flawed comparison, Mr Dubversion.
 
The success rate for re-making UK sitcoms for American audiences is so low, it doesn't really bode well for this. Plus, Spaced is such a unique style of sitcom, I just can't see it translating without either Pegg, Stevenson or (most importantly) Wright involved directly.
 
Rainingstairs said:
fair enough. however there is a pronounced difference in what the two countries find funny.

I heard brits hated jerry lewis, american's loved him
americans would rather watch 9 seasons of "king of queens" than arrested development which only lasted 2 1/2 seasons :confused:
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Ok, we've got slightly different tastes to Americans, but it's hard to generalise. I see your point about King of Queens/Arrested Development, but I could just as easily write "Brits would rather watch 13 years of The Vicar of Dibley than one season of <insert short but funny Britcom here>" :)

(I really wanted to find King of Queens funny because just the sight of Jerry Stiller makes me giggle, but it was not to be :( )
 
Rather a lot of the cultural references were based on US pop culture anyway - not just StarWars but X-Files and Buffy - I'd guess the US has some equivalent of Robot Wars too. The stuff about the TA might need a bit of explaining - which reminds me of when The Full Monty was shipped to the US and I recall hearing that a phrasebooklet was issued to american reviewers to help them with phrases like 'The Full Monty'.
I therefore think that it would be nicer if americans were just shown the original - remind them that there is a world beyond Fox but failing that, good luck to all the people that will make money off a remake.
 
Mr Smin said:
The stuff about the TA might need a bit of explaining.
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They have things like the TA in the US.
But when the yanks they poke fun at it rather than it being about grown men being too involved in war and guns they say how its just a bunch of blokes looking for an excuse to go and get drunk with their buddies. Which won't fly as well I think.
 
no-no said:
Why do the Americans always remake shows? I don't get it at all.

Do we ever do remakes of american shows? Wasn't there a shit english sitcom which was supposed to be a remake of roseanne?
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There was "The Golden Girls" (shit & schmaltzy sitcom) in US

UK made "The Brighton Belles" (even shittier)

Just goes to show - you can't polish a turd!

I remember reading that Roseanne bought the rights to "Absolutely Fabulous" but had to cut out scenes of drug-taking, drinking, strong language since that was considered unacceptable for a US comedy (or at least one they could syndicate)
 
seeformiles said:
There was "The Golden Girls" (shit & schmaltzy sitcom) in US

UK made "The Brighton Belles" (even shittier)

Just goes to show - you can't polish a turd!
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Ditto, Days Like These. Our version of slighty-funny-but-it-has-Ashton-Kutcher-in-it-so-therefore-makes-me-want-to-be-violently-ill yankcom, That 70s Show.
 
Mr Smin said:
Rather a lot of the cultural references were based on US pop culture anyway - not just StarWars but X-Files and Buffy - I'd guess the US has some equivalent of Robot Wars too. The stuff about the TA might need a bit of explaining - which reminds me of when The Full Monty was shipped to the US and I recall hearing that a phrasebooklet was issued to american reviewers to help them with phrases like 'The Full Monty'.
I therefore think that it would be nicer if americans were just shown the original - remind them that there is a world beyond Fox but failing that, good luck to all the people that will make money off a remake.
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Thing is, shaun of the dead went down pretty well over in the US, so I don't see why Spaced couldn't have. It's basically the same.
 
no-no said:
Do we ever do remakes of american shows? Wasn't there a shit english sitcom which was supposed to be a remake of roseanne?
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I have pitched on here, several times, the idea of doing a UK remake of the A-Team set in the crusty-new age traveller scene of the early 90s and featuring a bunch of Gulf War dropouts. Sadly, no TV executives have come on here to offer me a million quid contract to write the thing, as yet :mad:
 
That must be why you were drawn to post to this thread like a moth to a internet discussion about whether flames are crap/not crap.
 
Alex B said:
That must be why you were drawn to post to this thread like a moth to a internet discussion about whether flames are crap/not crap.
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I stated an opinion because I have one. I would not post on a thread about gardeners world for instance, because I have no opinion on it. This is how BB's work.


anyway your only having a moan because you love off Spaced and secretly want to be Simon Pegg
 
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