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The Excalibur
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They tried to do "Fawlty Towers". It sucked. If John Clese(sp) were dead he'ds be spinning in his grave. Good thing he's still alive. This thing was a watered down version of a script from the original Fawlty Towers. They will never get it right. The Dr.Who movie was about the only English show that I've seen redone here, that was very good.

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Montgomery
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Well, if you overlook the script!

I think it's been proven now that comedies do not translate across the Atlantic. The TV climates are too different in that regard.

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The sad part is that Fawlty Towers was popular here. We just don't make good comedys.

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You should see Dutch "comedies". AWFUL!! It's either about sex, drugs, or mmoney, which could be fun, don't get me wrong, but it's all so simple and childish.

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Long ago, US television soccessfuly translated British comedy. The two best examples are "All In The Family" and "Sanford and Son"

More recent attempts have crashed and burned. Anyone else see the truly awful "Fawlty Towers" clone some years ago with Bea Arthur in the Basil role?

I'm curious about the attempted "Red Dwarf" copy a few years ago, but I heard they cleaned up Dave Lister---thereby eliminating much of his original personality.

Jeez, even the American version of Robbie Coltrane's "Cracker" series sucked.


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The Excalibur
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I knew about "All in the Family", which I liked, but I didn't know "Sanford and Son" was a copy.

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Jeff Raven
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Don't forget America's sad attempt at cloning Red Dwarf.....

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PsyLiam
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ER, Jeff, look 2 message above yours.

Actually, the RD US series might have been okay. It was written by the same guys, had Robert Llew-thingy as Kryten, and abarpently Craig Berko (I think) who played Lister was very keen in the series, and fought the company to make sure it was made the way Grant and Naylor wanted it to be made.

Jane Leeves made a very good Holly. (Not as scatterbrained as Hattie Hayridge, favouring insted Norman Lovett's sarcastic asides)
and apparently Terry Farell was a good cat, who was unafraid of death, as she had 9 lives. 'What's the bid deal? You fall down, are embarrassed for a few minutes, then carry on with what you were doing'

But it looked far better than most UK/US translations.

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Jeff Raven
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Ack! Pbbbbbbbbbbt! My bad.

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The Excalibur
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Bill the Cat lives

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You've SEEN the US RD? Details, Mr Kav-whatever.

I think the worst US/UK adaption has to be Men Behaving Badly. I've never seen the UK version, but the US one was so bad, there is no way it could not have been botched.

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PsyLiam
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One interesting thing is that Lister would have been white, probably cause the 'racially-equal' US networks would have had a bit of trouble with a black liverpudlian slob going out with a white gorgeous bombshell.

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Cargile
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Americans don't like slobs dating gorgeous bombshells whatever their color. Such girls don't deserve such punishment, unless they are sluts. And slobs and sluts go hand in hand anyway.

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Cargile - You mean everything there has to be plastic perfect? Sheesh.

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That's one thing that bothers me, I've yet to see an American series in which a black guy/girl dates a white girl/guy. I even noticed background extras in Frasier are "segregated"

SHEESH!


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