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American Father Ted?
Posted: 2003-06-30 08:05pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Ugh!
My imaginary deity in the sky, America has already fucked up Red Dwarf, Men Behaving Badly, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and numerous other attempts on British comedy.
You'd think then, that anybody suggesting to bastardise Father Ted in such a way would be dragged out into the street and shot.
Fuck, I had a Father Ted marathon last week, watched the episode with the Chinese people and the perfectly square patch of dirt, the flight episode and the infamous Speed 3 one.
In the immortal words of Father Jack, what would you say to the execs planning this series?
"FECK OFF, EXECS!"
Posted: 2003-06-30 08:08pm
by Brother-Captain Gaius
Fucked up Who Line is it Anyways?! teh dr3w c4rr3y pwnz j00
Posted: 2003-06-30 08:14pm
by Kelly Antilles
'scuse me, but Whose LIne is not to be the same three people week after week. And yeah, they have screwed up WAY too many good British shows by trying to copy them.
Posted: 2003-06-30 08:14pm
by Admiral Valdemar
JediNeophyte wrote:Fucked up Who Line is it Anyways?! teh dr3w c4rr3y pwnz j00
Meh, I may have added that in on a spur of the moment, I can't recall really watching the Americanised version much, but the point stands, they butchered my other two examples by taking the concept and pissing on it. Red Dwarf alone, having a female onboard in the pilot made the whole series defunct.
Father Ted without Dermot Morgan will reek of shit, true, the execs can't ressurect the dead, but they shouldn't even attempt this either.
Posted: 2003-06-30 08:21pm
by Montcalm
Since i only saw the American version of "Who`s line is it anyway" i can`t say it was bad,personnaly i liked it but if you want to know about screwed-up,the French-Canadian version called Kamikaze was so bad i had to tickle myself just to laugh.
Posted: 2003-06-30 08:23pm
by kojikun
There was an american version of RED DWARF???
Posted: 2003-06-30 08:25pm
by Kelly Antilles
kojikun wrote:There was an american version of RED DWARF???
Eh, they made a crappy pilot. It sucks big time.
Posted: 2003-06-30 08:25pm
by Admiral Valdemar
kojikun wrote:There was an american version of RED DWARF???
Two pilots, one exactly like the original UK series one pilot with only Kryten being played by an original member. There was a female cat onboard I believe and some CGI which looked horrible, they reused the old BBC model shots though. Lister wasn't slobby either, kinda defeats the point and a lot of things were made to be American, e.g. a baseball card gag or something.
The fact that you never heard of it speaks volumes.
Posted: 2003-06-30 08:27pm
by kojikun
Admiral Valdemar wrote:kojikun wrote:There was an american version of RED DWARF???
Two pilots, one exactly like the original UK series one pilot with only Kryten being played by an original member. There was a female cat onboard I believe and some CGI which looked horrible, they reused the old BBC model shots though. Lister wasn't slobby either, kinda defeats the point and a lot of things were made to be American, e.g. a baseball card gag or something.
The fact that you never heard of it speaks volumes.
I'm going to try to download it off KaZaA. I need to see this to believe it.
*edit* Cant even find it. Thats impressively shitty if noone even wants to put it up for download.
Posted: 2003-06-30 08:31pm
by Admiral Valdemar
kojikun wrote:Admiral Valdemar wrote:kojikun wrote:There was an american version of RED DWARF???
Two pilots, one exactly like the original UK series one pilot with only Kryten being played by an original member. There was a female cat onboard I believe and some CGI which looked horrible, they reused the old BBC model shots though. Lister wasn't slobby either, kinda defeats the point and a lot of things were made to be American, e.g. a baseball card gag or something.
The fact that you never heard of it speaks volumes.
I'm going to try to download it off KaZaA. I need to see this to believe it.
*edit* Cant even find it. Thats impressively shitty if noone even wants to put it up for download.
Who would have it to even put it up anyway? You'd have to be really desparate to watch it anyway, it's not to be watched by fans who have temper problems.
Posted: 2003-06-30 08:32pm
by Andrew J.
We've ripped off so many British reality/game shows (Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Survivor, and American Idol were all originally British concepts, IIRC) that there appears to be a streak of good luck associated with it, so the execs hope it will extend to this as well.
Posted: 2003-06-30 09:38pm
by Jadeite
I really dont see why people like Whose Line Is It? Iv watched a couple episodes, and it seems pretty stupid.
Re: American Father Ted?
Posted: 2003-07-01 02:07am
by Knife
Admiral Valdemar wrote:[URL][URL]
My imaginary deity in the sky, America has already fucked up Red Dwarf, Men Behaving Badly, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and numerous other attempts on British comedy.
You'd think then, that anybody suggesting to bastardise Father Ted in such a way would be dragged out into the street and shot.
Fuck, I had a Father Ted marathon last week, watched the episode with the Chinese people and the perfectly square patch of dirt, the flight episode and the infamous Speed 3 one.
In the immortal words of Father Jack, what would you say to the execs planning this series?
"FECK OFF, EXECS!"
Bah, while I liked Whose Line is it Anyway, British style, the American version is just as good. However, the rest of the shit I will agree with you. You know though, the worst offender?????
Coupling is comedic geneous, yet Friends (American butchering of Coupling) sucks so much shit it could be a colonoscapy (sp?).
Posted: 2003-07-01 02:13am
by Tsyroc
You know, I used to hear they were going to Americanize Ultraviolet but I haven't heard anything about that in quite awhile.
Posted: 2003-07-01 02:21am
by Sea Skimmer
Hahahahah, America shall destroy all of the English comedy and leave the world only with reality TV. Then you will have no will to resist us.
Posted: 2003-07-01 02:45am
by Knife
Sea Skimmer wrote:Hahahahah, America shall destroy all of the English comedy and leave the world only with reality TV. Then you will have no will to resist us.
But that would imply that we would not have the will to exert on them.?.?.
Posted: 2003-07-01 03:55am
by Vympel
Father Ted in the US? Yeah, fucking right, imagine the fundies.
"I WILL KICK BISHOP BRENNAN UP THE ARSE!"
It's just not happening folks.
Posted: 2003-07-01 04:17am
by InnerBrat
[Mrs Doyle]We're going to 'merica? we're going to 'merica? Is that true, Father? We're going to...[/Mrs Doyle]
What makes me crack up is the claim they're not going to sanitise it for the American audience - as if the American fundies are ever going to let such a balsphemous program slide.
"That's the wonderful thing about Catholicism: it's so vague"
Posted: 2003-07-01 05:51am
by Gandalf
When did the US try Men Behaving Badly?, I rather like that show, if they fucked it up I'll be rather annoyed.
Posted: 2003-07-01 02:59pm
by Lord Pounder
An American Fr. Ted would suck so much ass it wouldn't be funny. Leave things alone you stupid fucking execs. Still it could be worse atleast they haven't tried to do Fawlty Towers or Poridge..........yet.
Posted: 2003-07-01 03:14pm
by FaxModem1
They did try to do Fawlty Towers, it was called Payne, and 13 episodes were made, only 6 were broadcast before it was cancelled.
Posted: 2003-07-01 03:18pm
by Faram
Andrew J. wrote:We've ripped off so many British reality/game shows (Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Survivor, and American Idol were all originally British concepts, IIRC) that there appears to be a streak of good luck associated with it, so the execs hope it will extend to this as well.
Nitpicking but Survivor is a Swedish consept originally called "Robinson" not anything that I am proud about but...
Posted: 2003-07-01 04:44pm
by Lord Pounder
FaxModem1 wrote:They did try to do Fawlty Towers, it was called Payne, and 13 episodes were made, only 6 were broadcast before it was cancelled.
*smashes head against the wall untill dizzy*
WHY DO DUMB UNORIGINAL PRICKS IN CHARGE OF TV STATIONS CONTINUE TO FUCK WITH THINGS I LOVE
Posted: 2003-07-01 08:32pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Tsyroc wrote:You know, I used to hear they were going to Americanize Ultraviolet but I haven't heard anything about that in quite awhile.
They have the rights, just not got around to it. Which reminds me that I intend to buy the DVD boxset of the original mini sometime.
And Father Ted is shown in America now, fundies be damned.
Posted: 2003-07-01 08:41pm
by SyntaxVorlon
Thank Marx for PBS and its BBC negociating ways. I don't get FT any more, but I did for a while get Thermoman. O'Hanlan did a wonderful job.