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Dan Harmon, being Harmonesque: [link]
I wish him luck getting to the grumpy showrunner niche. I'm assuming he wants to be lucrative enough to be indulged in his...ways.
And part of me is convinced he means "fewer ideas", but hey--he's the professional, so I'ma let him finish. I'm sure there's an argument to be made.
The whole "Use the exact script as the British series" never works.
Other than Coupling, where has this been done?
Other than Coupling, where has this been done?
Queer as Folk and Skins
They also tried Fawlty Towers, though I don't know if it was the same script.
And Red Dwarf.
Well, yeah, Tom--if PC is saying the IT Crowd wasn't going to succeed because that never works, how can the IT Crowd be an example of it not working?
Queer as Folk was successful in both incarnations, so it's not a good example of it not working. Although I'd had no idea that they were identical scripts. I thought they were just the same plots to start off with.
Skins was only the same for one episode, right?
WAIT, there was an American Red Dwarf? On the list of things that are really bad ideas...well, Fawlty Towers is also a pretty weird idea. I mean, that show struck me as a paean to how stupid one particular stripe of British guy could be.
Never aired.
Which, thank god, because can you think of two more British series than Fawlty Towers and Red Dwarf?
Last of the Summer Wine?
Downton Abbey
You know, I could see a Downton Abbey translation pretty easily. Certainly more than Fawlty Towers or Red Dwarf. To me it's just rich old dead white people. All look the same.