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.
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Which, thank god, because can you think of two more British series than Fawlty Towers and Red Dwarf?
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.
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.
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t mock-serious face
are you saying our grandparents all look the same to you?
Dan Harmon, being Harmonesque
Well, that was disappointing. I was hoping for more original and amusing moaning from him.
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.
I haven't found his interviews interesting recently. He's sounded kinda childish and I've bee bracing myself in case he says something really embarrassing. I guess I'm glad I didn't get it. It's just typically whiny.