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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-01-28 10:53 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #2947 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't mind it either, but I just don't think it'd be any good, OP.

(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
I unironically love trashy American remakes. No shame in it.

(Confession: I find the original Being Human to be roughly as bad as the remake.)

(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
it's okay. no one cares about the integrity of british shows or hates american remakes for being remakes besides anglophiles on the internet.

(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
It's not an issue of "integrity", the American remake of Life on Mars was just plain bad.

(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Didn't US Life on Mars kind of fuck the chances of that though?

(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yep.

(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably. It was just terrible, and it'd be hard to do a remake of a "sequel" show when the original show bombed.

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(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Image: cover art from Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes

Text: I unironically think that there should be a US remake of Ashes to Ashes

sb “US remake” and “want” in the same sentence

(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Meh. Harvey Keitel made a boring Gene Hunt.

(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
The character he played wasn't even Gene Hunt, just some weirdo with a fan.

(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
And not even a folding fan! Which would at least have been quirky.
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[personal profile] ginainthekingsroad 2015-01-30 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
The unaired first pilot of US Life on Mars had Colm Meaney as Gene Hunt. Much better casting, although there were a lot of problems with that pilot too. TBH, the best part of the US series that aired was surprisingly, Michael Imperioli as Ray.

And neither US version was set in the right place to be a proper analogue for Manchester- LA was SO not right, but New York wasn't much better. Should have been something like Buffalo, Pittsburgh, maybe Detroit.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
I never watched the US version of Life on Mars, but I liked Dear John (US), Three's Company (based on Man About the House), and Too Close for Comfort (based on Keep it in the Family). I didn't like the US version of Coupling, which should have been a slam dunk as I like both Friends and Coupling (UK), but it was not well done.

And a lot of people seem to like the US versions of Being Human, House of Cards, The Office, and Shameless.

(Anonymous) 2015-01-30 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Life on Mars US meant so much to me. But I haven't been able to get into the UK original version so far.
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