Interesting article in the Onion AV Club today...
http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/the_borrowers_16_plus_american
American Adaptations
Hmm, who'd have thought Keep It In The Family would have been so successful in the States?
I thought the point about American TV being flooded with shitty English quizzes/reality shows was well made too. People all too often moan about yank imports forgetting about the blight we've put on their televisual landscape.
Quote: David Bussell @ September 2 2008, 11:46 AM BSTI thought the point about American TV being flooded with shitty English quizzes/reality shows was well made too.
But didn't we pinch them off the Dutch?
The Weakest Link was originally British and created by Fintan Coyle. The same man who later went on to write the ill-fated and pretty dreadful TLC, the hospital sitcom starring the pretty but short-arsed one from the League of Gentleman.
Did no one proof-read that? First "Til Death Us Do Part", then spatterings of (the correct) "Till Death Us Do Part". Fools.
I guess they accidentally used the 'correct' spelling of 'til' (there's only one 'l' in 'until' after all) rather than the one the series creators went with.
Quote: David Bussell @ September 2 2008, 12:35 PM BSTI guess they accidentally used the 'correct' spelling of 'til' (there's only one 'l' in 'until' after all) rather than the one the series creators went with.
Don't encorage him in his anality.
I liked TLC. 
Quote: Timbo @ September 2 2008, 11:55 AM BSTBut didn't we pinch them off the Dutch?
Not the ones they mention their article as far as I know.
And wasn't Jasper Carrott something to do with Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Quote: David Bussell @ September 2 2008, 12:35 PM BSTI guess they accidentally used the 'correct' spelling of 'til' (there's only one 'l' in 'until' after all) rather than the one the series creators went with.
IIRC, "until" is a derivative of "till", not the other way around.
Here is a public service announcement.
Till and until are two separate words. Till is correct, and predates until. Until is also correct, 'til is not correct.
TRUFAX.
Well I'll be spooned.
Now what's IIRC mean?
Quote: Graham Bandage @ September 2 2008, 12:49 PM BSTTill and until are two separate words. Till is correct, and predates until. Until is also correct, 'til is not correct.
TRUFAX.
Prezunctly. Till has been traced to at least the middle ages, if not earlier.
Quote: David Bussell @ September 2 2008, 12:57 PM BSTNow what's IIRC mean?
If I recall correctly.