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Exactly right.
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Ah. That makes a lot more sense to me then.
Why remake it into American stuff? Well, with The Office, it's very different than the UK one. I personally liked the UK version better. However, there are some jokes that don't make sense to me as an American. Plus, different types of humour are appreciated in different types of places. Americans don't appreciate that dry British wit as much as they should.
Wilfred is a good example... I love both the US and Aussie versions. But I can't imagine many Americans enjoying the Australian version. It's really different. But Wilfred was pretty successful when they adapted the idea to the Americanized version of it.
And I mentioned The Office earlier... The US version was more successful, by most measuring standards. I still feel the UK was funnier. But the seasons are also different here. The UK shows I know are usually just 6 episodes. That's not at all what a US network would go for when airing the shows here.
I mean, they have UK Big Brother and American and probably Australian and wherever else. For all intents and purposes, you could watch the same one everywhere. But there is money to be made in each country.
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I just watched a youtube clip of Britain's Got Talent's top 10 auditions and there's this woman who comes on and kills it onstage doing these impressions. I had no idea who the hell she was talking about but Simon and the crowd were in tears laughing. I hate missing the joke.
It made me very angry. Plus, I have no idea why they thought she was so funny. I think that's why some amazing shows are remade in other countries; so they can also see what's amazing about it.
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It's called being out of ideas, so let's redo something. If they picked something good, it was by accident I assure you.
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I just watched a youtube clip of Britain's Got Talent's top 10 auditions and there's this woman who comes on and kills it onstage doing these impressions. I had no idea who the hell she was talking about but Simon and the crowd were in tears laughing. I hate missing the joke.
Youtube Susan Boyle audition. I do like to see their faces when she starts.
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That one is a classic. Maybe their most surprising audition.
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I'm too polite to use this statement filled with possibilities, but was so tempted.
I agree with a previous poster the show would be better if some bratty little snowflake got slapped every episode.
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I just watched a youtube clip of Britain's Got Talent's top 10 auditions and there's this woman who comes on and kills it onstage doing these impressions. I had no idea who the hell she was talking about but Simon and the crowd were in tears laughing. I hate missing the joke.
Right. The first time I heard David Brent say, "As the actress said to the Bishop" I thought, "WTF is he saying?"
And the US Office was a completely different show in many ways. The characters, while similar to their British counterparts, were very Americanized. Or is it Americanised?
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That isn't how tv works? I just assumed.
The kid would have to be Hitler Jr. for me to be able to watch him getting slapped every week. Like, a new Hitler Jr. every week getting some sense knocked into him maybe. Maybe.
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Don't get me started on your spelling.
British humour tends to be a lot dryer than American humor. It might have something to do with the second "u" but I can't confirm that.
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I'd personally be more interested in a show called The Clap.
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It's on in a few minutes for eastern time zone Americans and Jennifers.
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Add me to the list of not impressed with the premier. Also, I want on the list of people allowed to slap a well deserving little brat weekly. <<< notice that was weekly, not weakly.
The kid may not of needed slapped, but a size 10 boot in the ass was definitely in order. Maybe twice. I can't begin to count the times I have wanted to knock the spoiled brat/self important/you are here for my pleasure attitude out of my niece, nephew, and their so called father.
The kid may not of needed slapped, but a size 10 boot in the ass was definitely in order. Maybe twice. I can't begin to count the times I have wanted to knock the spoiled brat/self important/you are here for my pleasure attitude out of my niece, nephew, and their so called father.
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Thanks for the heads up. I will give it a watch and report back.
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There is something in the American brain that wants to make loads of money.
LOL - I agree with the earlier poster - if they slapped a new kid every episode, that I might watch.
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You watch a lot of the idiot box.
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LOL - "The Whacking"
It's a primetime mini-series, pulled a 1.1 rating, about the equivalent of Dateline, so around $35,000 per 30 seconds, times 24 (12 minutes of commercials) = $840,000 per episode x 8 episodes = $6.720,000 at the bottom end.
Initial ratings were weak, but it has a named cast, so if the ratings pick up, and based on pre-sales at the anticipated ratings level, it's probably conservatively projected to pull in somewhere in the vicinity of $21 or $22 million in commercial revenues for the first run, then there are all the other downstream revenues waiting until it's free on Hulu.
If it were a regular series, it's below the bubble of profitability - but, being a scripted mini-series all the development costs are already sunk, so it will make money for ABC - though probably not as much as they would have liked. As a mini-series it is all shot at once, so the production costs probably ran around the $10,000,000 mark, probably south of that.
The American version is adapted from the Australian version by the creators/producers of the original version - so it's mostly just a re-cast to get some recognizable American names for the markets. (And the creators/producers just kicked the revenue from the original series higher because now a lot of people will want to see the original to compare the two - and they can now sell the original to cable networks - if the American version succeeds or fails, so that's all more money in the bank for them.)
Money, money, it's a rich man's world...
It's a primetime mini-series, pulled a 1.1 rating, about the equivalent of Dateline, so around $35,000 per 30 seconds, times 24 (12 minutes of commercials) = $840,000 per episode x 8 episodes = $6.720,000 at the bottom end.
Initial ratings were weak, but it has a named cast, so if the ratings pick up, and based on pre-sales at the anticipated ratings level, it's probably conservatively projected to pull in somewhere in the vicinity of $21 or $22 million in commercial revenues for the first run, then there are all the other downstream revenues waiting until it's free on Hulu.
If it were a regular series, it's below the bubble of profitability - but, being a scripted mini-series all the development costs are already sunk, so it will make money for ABC - though probably not as much as they would have liked. As a mini-series it is all shot at once, so the production costs probably ran around the $10,000,000 mark, probably south of that.
The American version is adapted from the Australian version by the creators/producers of the original version - so it's mostly just a re-cast to get some recognizable American names for the markets. (And the creators/producers just kicked the revenue from the original series higher because now a lot of people will want to see the original to compare the two - and they can now sell the original to cable networks - if the American version succeeds or fails, so that's all more money in the bank for them.)
Money, money, it's a rich man's world...
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