America remakes another sterling British TV show

[Mr.Bob]

So you two never read the treatment for the Fox version of the show the TV Movie was a pilot for then?

[Jim North]

Should we have?

[Mr.Bob]

Google: John Leekley Bible

E: Actually here is a good link.

Summary:
The Doctor and the Master are half-brothers and both sons of the lost Time Lord explorer Ulysses, Borusa's son. When the evil Master becomes President of the Time Lords upon Borusa's death, the Doctor flees Gallifrey in a rickety old TARDIS to find Ulysses. Borusa's spirit becomes enmeshed in the TARDIS, enabling Borusa to continue to advise his grandson. The Doctor takes the TARDIS to "the Blue Planet" (Earth), to search for Ulysses -- this being the native world of the Doctor's mother. And so begin his adventures, battling spider-daleks and cybs along the way from New York to Louisiana, to find his father.


So I when I said dad earlier I meant granddad.

[McDuffies]

Hahaha. Take that, Joel Fagin's childhood!

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

I think that it's all a revenge for this.

II bet the Russian Fran has a laugh that's a lot less painful on the ears, so it can't possibly be that bad!

Fran Drescher built an empire on her laugh.

One time, I was at a restaurant where this one person had a laugh that was a combination of Peter Griffin and Fran Drescher. It was also loud.

[Joel Fagin]

Hahaha. Take that, Joel Fagin's childhood!

My childhood is fine, thanks. Ironically, they'd need a time machine to affect it.

- Joel Fagin

[Bustertheclown]

So, I've decided that I don't mind that American entertainment samples from other countries. American entertainment is the same as America, in that it's a cultural stew, taking all sorts of ingredients from all over, and coming up with something unique, which still maintains facets of the original flavors. Besides, it must be hard to keep churning out original content at such a massive rate, to be exported and consumed worldwide. Sampling provides for the possibility of keeping things somewhat fresh.

Plus, it's not as if having an American version of a good show made for American audiences is really a bad thing. It doesn't detract from the original, and the original isn't somehow destroyed. In fact, as an added bonus, every time some international property gets co-opted into American entertainment, it just draws attention to the original property, providing the opportunity for people to seek it out in its original form, and act all hoity-toity about "liking the <insert non-American original here> version better."

To me, it seems like a win/win.

[McDuffies]

Sampling is not the same as outright copying. We're not talking about taking elements from other country's culture because you have genuine interest in that culture - they're only interested in skeleton, which they'll strip off original cultural elements as much as they can.

Now, this might provoke the "Americans are bastards*" discussion, but why making American version when it's easier to just buy the English one? I believe that this is partly done to keep American culture space hermetic (similarly to how foreign films and comics are poorly distributed there). Of course, a theory that someone doesn't like Americans to have insight into other cultures might pop up, but I think that the real reason is economical: you'll probably pay just a fragment of royalties for idea, compared to buying the whole series. It's actually economical system that is kept hermetic because money eventually goes back to American companies instead of brittish.

Americans will probably be stopped from seeing the original series for as long as American version is running. If it draws attention to original series, it will be attention of a small percent of afficionados, and not the general audience.

Finally, as far as I'm concearned, if someone doesn't have an idea for series, he shouldn't make the series at all. If they can't keep up with ideas for the mass production pace, then they shouldn't. But I don't think that's true anyway, I think that there are thousands of writers out there who can't get their ideas filmed. This isn't so much about lack of ideas as it's about playing safe and industrial production.

*yeah I paraphrased Tv tropes.

[Jim North]

I disagree.

Google: John Leekley Bible

E: Actually here is a good link.

Summary:

Ooooh, right, I do vaguely remember something about that.

Still, way it seems, the whole half-brother thing might actually come to pass . . .