They also tried Fawlty Towers, though I don't know if it was the same script.
And Red Dwarf.
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Dana - Jul 11, 2012 2:32:07 pm PDT #5714 of 8626
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
§ ita § - Jul 11, 2012 2:40:47 pm PDT #5715 of 8626
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
§ ita § - Jul 11, 2012 2:42:27 pm PDT #5716 of 8626
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Dana - Jul 11, 2012 2:44:59 pm PDT #5717 of 8626
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Never aired.
Which, thank god, because can you think of two more British series than Fawlty Towers and Red Dwarf?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 11, 2012 3:04:30 pm PDT #5718 of 8626
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Gris - Jul 11, 2012 4:08:11 pm PDT #5719 of 8626
Hey. New board.
Downton Abbey
§ ita § - Jul 11, 2012 4:32:46 pm PDT #5720 of 8626
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
DebetEsse - Jul 11, 2012 4:48:51 pm PDT #5721 of 8626
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Ok, I saw that post, and then went to refresh my Tumblr and there was Downton Industries fanart based on a fic. Ah, synchronicity that isn't about SPN or Sherlock.
You could probably pull off something Downton-y in Newport, RI (for example), but enough of the social stuff (inherited titles, for one.) would have to be different enough that it would be easier to start from scratch.
ita !, t mock-serious face are you saying our grandparents all look the same to you?
-t - Jul 12, 2012 5:54:32 am PDT #5722 of 8626
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dan Harmon, being Harmonesque
Well, that was disappointing. I was hoping for more original and amusing moaning from him.
le nubian - Jul 12, 2012 6:03:26 am PDT #5723 of 8626
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
t, I agree. I am not sure if it was the interview format (I am not a fan of the interviewer, too much self-absorption that colors most of his interviews IMO), or he is too close to the situation, or non-disclosure agreements, or a period of uncertainty but I almost could have given that interview.