On Coupling, for instance...
You'll be able to make a proper comparison in the very near future, since the pilot of the Amercian version of Coupling was shot last October according to IMDb.
This must be what going mad feels like.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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evil jimi - Feb 10, 2003 8:43:49 pm PST #1856 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
billytea - Feb 10, 2003 8:45:56 pm PST #1857 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
You'll be able to make a proper comparison in the very near future, since the pilot of the Amercian version of Coupling was shot last October according to IMDb.
One of the reasons why I chose it. (Another is that it's extremely funny, of course.) Is it showing in Australia?
evil jimi - Feb 10, 2003 8:52:47 pm PST #1858 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
8 hours until new Buffy! *bounce bounce bounce*
evil jimi - Feb 10, 2003 8:58:27 pm PST #1859 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
billytea ... The ABC is showing the original version on Thursday nights but I've only seen a couple of episodes. I never got really into it b/c it reminded me of Cold Feet -- which I did not like at all -- and so I've never given it a proper chance. No doubt some commercial station will get the US version but it remains to be seen if it gets a primetime slot or not, since those morons at 7 screened Titus at 5AM and now have Normal, Ohio on at that time.
billytea - Feb 10, 2003 9:02:00 pm PST #1860 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
billytea ... The ABC is showing the original version on Thursday nights but I've only seen a couple of episodes. I never got really into it b/c it reminded me of Cold Feet -- which I did not like at all -- and so I've never given it a proper chance.
Excellent. It is a bit like Cold Feet, though not as schmoopy. (But then, I liked Cold Feet.) Anyway, I can now back up my "You must see this" with an actual date and time. Thanks.
evil jimi - Feb 10, 2003 9:13:07 pm PST #1861 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I'll give Coupling another chance. It was up against Scrubs but now 7 have moved that show to Sunday night and replaced it with Joe Millionairheads.
billytea - Feb 10, 2003 9:16:11 pm PST #1862 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'll give Coupling another chance. It was up against Scrubs but now 7 have moved that show to Sunday night and replaced it with Joe Millionairheads.
I swear, that show's like Drano to the matted hairballs of quality television.
Yes, I know it should be the other way around. All analogies break down sooner or later, and I'm on a schedule here.
billytea - Feb 10, 2003 9:17:55 pm PST #1863 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
(PS: re Coupling, I recommend especially "The Cupboard of Patrick's Love" - the final in S1 - and "Naked" - penultimate in S2. Not that there's anything wrong with the others.)
amyparker - Feb 10, 2003 9:19:44 pm PST #1864 of 9843
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
"You taped over me - with The Wicker Man?!?"
Hee. I love that show.
§ ita § - Feb 10, 2003 9:21:36 pm PST #1865 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A problem I was told, with the principle of the American remake of Coupling is that so much is so much more precise in British humour. There's a very specific knowledge (whether one chooses to live it or not) of what is done in specific situations, which makes a comedy of manners so much less watch-from-the-hall, but more precise and delightful.
No, I have no idea how they're getting around it, but I hope it rocks, because Patrick is being played by a dear friend.
Last I heard, there was a pilot reshoot in the works.