Mal ,'War Stories'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
The British Touching Evil was only on for a relatively short time. Guess the American version just ran out of scripts. In an interview on Michael Parkingson's show, Robson Green told about Bruce Willis calling him for the rights.
Upon reflection, it may be that Willis only bought a certain number of shows.
Touching evil guy was so pretty.
You watched it for the pretty?
But if it was cancelled, as reported, someone had plans for it to go on longer. They knew that the British series was short when they started.
I thought that there were a couple of original episodes in there, weren't there?
The US series sort of cannibalised the UK one. Despite the fallout from previous episodes, the US was a killer of the week format. I think five US episodes were entirely original, but I don't remember any straight one-to-one plot duplications.
The US put a different spin on the coworkers, also. So can USA be all that profitable, putting all these new series into prodution, broadcasting them once, then not renewing? More importantly, can I blame the same executives who fired Bitty Schram?
I don't remember any straight one-to-one plot duplications.
The one where people were being burnt was one-to-one, and also the one with the grief counsellor come first to mind.
Well, not straight, because of episode length, but they had the same plots.
I forgot about them. Probably has something to do with the lack of Andy Serkis. Makes anybody else in the role somehow unmemorable.
I don't remember any straight one-to-one plot duplications.
The near-death experience one was quite similar as well (I mean, in the set-pieces of breaking the script, although not in the in-between parts). I was a bit miffed that they duplicated the original so faithfully; I thought a departure would have been more interesting.
The funny part is, to my knowledge UK Touching Evil has been in print in series 1, and 3, but never 2. I remember 1 and 3, as they've been rebroadcast on public television within the last 3 years, but I can't remember a thing from series 2.