dear networks cable and otherwise.

Please stop taking british shows and making american versions we don't need them. Most of them have been awful and only british shows that made good american shows came out of the 70's before any one in the states could really watch british shows. Thanks to dvds and internet and bbc america we don't need need american version of british shows. Just leave well enough alone.

But everyone is doing it because The Office worked so well for NBC. So I guess you could say all the other networks are trying to find the next Office

boberthavok wrote:But everyone is doing it because The Office worked so well for NBC. So I guess you could say all the other networks are trying to find the next Office

yes but the making crappy american knock-offs ways before the office the only reason the office worked cause the creators of the british version worked on the american version.

kidspider2099 wrote:the only reason the office worked cause the creators of the british version worked on the american version.

Eh? Not at all. Sure it helped to have their support, but without great writing team, a group of crazy characters and one Steve Carell, that show wouldn't have lasted 7 seasons. The real test for the show is when Carell leaves by the end of the current season.

As far as I can tell, other than the Office, every American version of a British show has failed and been cancelled. The next on that's coming soon to MTV is Skins. I was in the city and saw a Billboard for it by the MTV studios. It starts in January. Looks like failure to me but then again, it's on MTV.

American Idol, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Dancing with the Stars, Three's Company, and Sanford and Son all did well and where shows from another country first

I've never understood how the existence of television programs someone doesn't like bothers them, it's not like you're forced to watch it. Don't like something? Don't watch it. Problem solved.

Joshua wrote:I've never understood how the existence of television programs someone doesn't like bothers them, it's not like you're forced to watch it. Don't like something? Don't watch it. Problem solved.

You're bringing logic into this?!?
This is the internet, brother, and there's a universal argument that rings throughout it.

I'm not a fan of British anything. Except for JC....

(._Y_.) wrote:I'm not a fan of British anything. Except for JC....

JESUS WAS BRITISH??????

Gojiratoho wrote:

(._Y_.) wrote:I'm not a fan of British anything. Except for JC....

JESUS WAS BRITISH??????

Sometimes.

Gojiratoho wrote:

(._Y_.) wrote:I'm not a fan of British anything. Except for JC....

JESUS WAS BRITISH??????

+5

The Brits do it too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpsXJeV9E08&NR=1

Gojiratoho wrote:

(._Y_.) wrote:I'm not a fan of British anything. Except for JC....

JESUS WAS BRITISH??????

Lol

Joshua wrote:I've never understood how the existence of television programs someone doesn't like bothers them, it's not like you're forced to watch it. Don't like something? Don't watch it. Problem solved.

you totally missed the point. My point is that i don't like when us americans take a great show make our version of it and crap all over it.

And for the record, Jesus was a rican, why you think they named him hey-zues.

Denim wrote:And for the record, Jesus was a rican, why you think they named him hey-zues.

But he must have been half Greek as well with a last name like Christ (krissed).

A greekerican?

Puerto Grecian?

kidspider2099 wrote:

Joshua wrote:I've never understood how the existence of television programs someone doesn't like bothers them, it's not like you're forced to watch it. Don't like something? Don't watch it. Problem solved.

you totally missed the point. My point is that i don't like when us americans take a great show make our version of it and crap all over it.

Dear internet guy,
We don't give a damn what you think. Your "expert opinion" (that being that you watch television) doesn't mean jack in comparison to the millions of dollars that we invest in taking television programs with good ideas and adapting them to reach a broader American audience. Why do you care, anyways?
Sincerely,
Hollywood

kidspider2099 wrote:

Joshua wrote:I've never understood how the existence of television programs someone doesn't like bothers them, it's not like you're forced to watch it. Don't like something? Don't watch it. Problem solved.

you totally missed the point. My point is that i don't like when us americans take a great show make our version of it and crap all over it.

How exactly did I miss your point?

Anyway, if the high quality of The Office is considered getting crapped on, I wish someone would crap all over me.

Joshua wrote:
Anyway, if the high quality of The Office is considered getting crapped on, I wish someone would crap all over me.

I've never understood why people love the Office. I've watched it a couple of times, and it's only really made me laugh maybe once. I don't understand why everyone's pants get sticky over it. I don't think it's high quality, I don't think it's all that funny compared to its British forerunner, and I am AMAZED that it's going to continue on without Steve Carrell, who is easily and admittedly in my mind the show's only saving grace.

But I get kidspider's point about America not really encouraging creativity in its own handiwork anymore. It's much easier to grab a hit concept (Big Brother, Let the Right One In, X-Factor, etc.) from another country and adapt it to an American audience (whether it needs adapting or not) than try to come up with something unique and original. At least, that's the message those of us viewers with brains are getting from said actions.


P.S., I'm pretty sure that people are allowed to be annoyed by shit that doesn't directly affect them. I've never seen The Jersey Shore, but I know that it's crap, and the whole idea is the cultural STD that America has been developing since the Me Generation started being in charge. I've never been an Alaskan or a Republican, but Sarah Palin bugs the high holy crap out of me. Anyone is allowed to be annoyed by what annoys them. They don't need to rationalize it to those who aren't annoyed and try to convince them to be annoyed as well.

Joshua wrote:

kidspider2099 wrote:

Joshua wrote:I've never understood how the existence of television programs someone doesn't like bothers them, it's not like you're forced to watch it. Don't like something? Don't watch it. Problem solved.

you totally missed the point. My point is that i don't like when us americans take a great show make our version of it and crap all over it.

How exactly did I miss your point?

Anyway, if the high quality of The Office is considered getting crapped on, I wish someone would crap all over me.

You realize Ariel reads all posts and likes to take everything he possibly can out of context, right?

Gojiratoho wrote:
You realize Ariel reads all posts and likes to take everything he possibly can out of context, right?

I'm counting on it.