Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Why, oh why?
>_<
Spaced US
This is the only time i've wanted a Pitchfork.
I can't imagine how they could do it. The premise isn't very unique its the writing/acting. I'm sure it won't be anything like the original - just don't bother.
Oh for f**k's sake.
Yes, make Tim and Daisy nice glossy skinny 'failures' and stick a laughter track on it.
That won't piss on all my nostalgic memories!!
Gah.
"..adapted for American audiences by Adam Barr, who has also worked on the American sitcom Will and Grace (
) and on Desperate Housewives ()."
I, too, don't think it'll work. The whole concept of proud (but somewhat real) loserdom (is that a word? In German I can make it be one...) is just not hollywoody. Daisy will be an dessous model, who is unemployed because she's wearing glasses. And I fear Mike is too near to being realistic in America to be funny.
If you happen to find any prejudices in the above, you may keep them.
I guess the reason why those adaptations never really work is that people who could make it be good would never copy someone else's concept.
I know of only one show, where it worked. And that is the German version of the Office ("Stromberg"). But in that case, a good German comedian stumbled over the UK version, liked the idea and made his own thing. The result was quite different from the original and had its own quality (I liked it better, because of the lack of Gervais (which is a yoghurt brand as far as I know)).
Anyway, we'll have to wait and meanwhile be all negative.
And then it'll be just fantastic and we'll be shocked and awed by fireworks of wit and creativity...
°Finck (waveringly looking at the glas in her hand, that is half full and half empty at the same time)
Might make it funny. Cough cough. 
ARGH!
Please don't let this happen to one of the best.
Quote: Finck @ October 30, 2007, 11:18 PMDaisy will be an dessous model, who is unemployed because she's wearing glasses.
I don't understand why people get so vexed at well loved British comedies being remade for America. Fawlty Towers and Red Dwarf were both remade with disasterous conswequences, but it hasn't dented the originals reputations in any way.
I think the point is, or at least my point was that it's pointless waste of time. We're discussing the idea on a discussion forum and our conclusion is, why bother? Until the show is aired, this is all we can discuss, especially as you've mentioned so many remakes have failed, it's going to be our initial reaction.
Quote: chipolata @ October 31, 2007, 11:14 AMI don't understand why people get so vexed at well loved British comedies being remade for America. Fawlty Towers and Red Dwarf were both remade with disasterous conswequences, but it hasn't dented the originals reputations in any way.
I think people are mad because it's been made by Adam Barr who made Will & Grace and other crappy typical USA comedies. I've never seen Spaced (I know..I know..I will buy the DVD's) but I can see why fans of it would be pissed off at a remake in the wrong hands.
In other cases it has worked, but only when it's in the right hands, The Office US for instance, a brilliant show, really come into it's own and you no longer associate that much with The Office UK because it's developed it's own style, it's own characters and it's own plots. Same with The Thick Of It US (only a pilot was made and it's still being shipped around to various networks) but the team making it is Mitch Hurwitz and others who created the best sitcom of the noughties Arrested Development. So in those cases you don't feel bad at all, because you know they will give the shows their own style and make them just as if not more funny.
But yeah Spaced US looks like it's fell into the wrong hands.
Quote: Martin Holmes @ October 31, 2007, 3:09 PMI've never seen Spaced
You of all people!
Quote: Leevil @ October 31, 2007, 3:52 PM
You of all people!
I know, I feel ashamed, you know how most people have something that's really popular that they've never seen? Well Spaced is mine. Think I may ask for all the DVD's for Christmas. 
Didn't they learn with Coupling? Why mess with a great show? It won't work, we (US) will f**k it up. The US pilot for Red Dwarf was so bad it never made it to air, even with Jane Leeves as Holly. I did see that, it was worth watching once. And it is in my collection of Red Dwarf stuff.