Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ May 14 2008, 8:20 PM BST

Typical provincial attitudes. But still, everyone has a right to their own opinions.

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No, like somebody said previously, we just don't like seeing comedies we like being remade. Like zooo said, why not show the original, or commission writers for original ideas.

What are people's thoughts on the US version of Gavin and Stacey? They're surely going to have to be so different that wouldn't it have been far easier to come up with an original comedy?
 

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Precisely.


Also, it seems like a waste of money paying the originators for the rights, when they could have probably just copied the bits they wanted, changed it a bit, and no one would have been any the wiser!
 

Quote: zooo @ May 14 2008, 8:29 PM BST

Also, it seems like a waste of money paying the originators for the rights, when they could have probably just copied the bits they wanted, changed it a bit, and no one would have been any the wiser!

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Yeah, its not as though the central premise of something like Gavin And Stacey is so different or unique; two people from very different home towns fall in love, both have odd families; hardly groundbreaking; why bother paying for the rights?
 

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It baffles me.

I hate being baffled.

Baffle.
That is a fun word.
 

Quote: zooo @ May 14 2008, 8:33 PM BST

It baffles me.

Baffle.
That is a fun word.

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It rhymes with filafel but not waffle - strange?!
 

Baffle at your waffle.

That's not a euphemism by the way.
 

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Quote: NickTheDon @ May 14 2008, 8:37 PM BST

That's not a euphemism by the way.

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I used to play one of those in a brass band but got thrown out because my fingering was too quick!
 

MatthewScott, I read what you wrote and concur.

My comment was aimed at Zoo and NicktheDong; the fan-boy obsessive protectiveness, inward-looking, 'we fear change' attitudes are almost tangible. They don't want anything that they slave over remade out of some kind of entirely misplaced loyalty to the original. That is bananas.
 

Being abusive on an internet forum - as pointless as a blunt pencil.

Why can't you debate without retorting to childish name calling? What's wrong with not wanting remakes of comedies we like?
 

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Name calling? What? Where?

I have explained quite clearly what is wrong with screaming and bitching about remakes...if this was a spoken conversation I guess I would repeat it. but as it is written word, you can just look back at my previoous post.

But either way, if you're happy being a fan-boy then really, I don't mind - eeach to their own.
 

Quote: NickTheDon @ May 14 2008, 7:20 PM BST

Father Ted would be impossible without Dermot Morgan!

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But as the original question was to bring back the cast as they were, the exact age and everything - so we're not talking of reviving a series, but of there actually being more episodes - that point is pretty irrelevant!

Quote: zooo @ May 14 2008, 7:48 PM BST

I don't like the idea of an American Spaced. (not that it's apparently happening anymore.)
But the transfers that make me angry and baffled are ones like the Mighty Boosh remake.

You can technically make a US version of Spaced, it has a simple plot line mentioned above. (It would be pointless in my opinion, but it can be done.)
But the Mighty Boosh isn't about the plots. It's two very specific comedians being themselves and creating their own universe.
You can't translate that!

It's fucking ridiculous.

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I agree in part, but does the average audience member see it like that? They just enjoy the show. It doesn't occur to them that it's the worryingly insane minds of the stars, rather than something they've created to be a show. If that makes sense. So the world which comes across on screen, and the style of humour, could be easily copied!
 

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Name calling? What? Where?

You don't consider "NickTheDong" to be name calling then, MTC ?
 

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Quote: NickTheDon @ May 14 2008, 7:53 PM BST

Why are they bothering with remaking loads of British shows? Why not just show them more over in the States?

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Because the American general TV-watching public are notoriously brain-dead and unwilling to accept anything even slightly different from what they already know. If they did watch, they'd complain that they couldn't understand the accents of the Australians, and that the season was too short to bother with!
 

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Oh shit, I've just re-read my post - that was a genuine typo error. Albeit an hilarious one.


Yeah that's right Aaron, that's why The Larry Sanders Show was such an unprecedented hit - because American TV audiences aren't smart.

An interesting comparison you might want to make is between Friends and Coupling. Friends was infintely smarter than Coupling and is one of the all time most successful sitcoms in America. Coupling on the other hand, is base by comparison.
 

Quote: Aaron @ May 14 2008, 9:44 PM BST

Because the American general TV-watching public are notoriously brain-dead and unwilling to accept anything even slightly different from what they already know. If they did watch, they'd complain that they couldn't understand the accents of the Australians, and that the season was too short to bother with!

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You'll be accused of having a provincial attitude with a post like that!


Regarding MTC's name calling, I wasn't even referring to NickTheDong (very inventive I must say), more the "fan boy obsessive" bits. It's quite hilarious how liking a comedy in its original state and not wanting it remade constitutes being an obsessive fan-boy.
 

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