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Katya,
Life on Mars
was a BBC1 programme and wasn't shown on BBC3 at all. Perhaps you are getting it confused with something else...? The one BBC3 show I can think of which got excellent reviews and a very rapid repeat on BBC1 was
Casanova.
BBC3 and BBC4 are supposed to cater for specialised audiences (young in the case of BBC3, intellectual for BBC4), and had a very hard time at the beginning carving out their own identities. Their teeny-tiny audience shares and frequent repeats were a bit of a joke for a while. However, they've both done very well in the past year or two and have been getting ever higher-profile original programming.
I predict that
Torchwood
will get the highest-ever ratings for BBC3 and that's part of the point. It's absolutely the perfect show for them, but ratings will still be lower than they would be for BBC1, because many people simply can't get the digital channels.
So, BBC3 is much like Scifi in some parts of the US. (Digital cable only.)
I really enjoyed
Life on Mars.
(Are we talking about it here? Or in Natter?)
Over at the IMDB it looks like
Life on Mars
is being remade for American tv.
They tried that with Red Dwarf. I've seen the result. Well, technically I've sat through and clenched my teeth at only a portion of the result before running away.
They tried it with The Office too, and that seems to have gone okay. I don't think translation is inherently the problem.
It's being remade by David Kelley.
I worry about that.
That is a definite concern.
Yeah, It's a mixed bag when one translates a british show. Sanford And Son, All in the Family, Too Close for Comfort, Antiques Roadshow, Trading Spaces, and Three's Company were also transplants. Make of that what you will, depending on how you feel about each show.
It's a mixed bag when one translates a british show
At its simplest, I posit it's a mixed bag when one makes a show.
Life on Mars
was some of the best TV I've seen in ages. It being remade by David Kelley sounds like a bad joke. Still, I am intrigued. I wonder if the US version will be shown in Britain. We got the US All in the Family and The Office.
