― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
we'll see....
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 24 March 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
That said, I'll probably watch it tonight just so's I can definitively tell people "Just got rent the original, it's like a billion times better."
― sugarpants: the luscious ingenue (sugarpants), Thursday, 24 March 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
You know, Australian TV rarely feels the need to remake overseas shows. We get original BBC stuff like Coupling, Sketch Show, the Office, LoG, QAF etc... we sometimes get the US versions too; we also get plenty of US shows un-changed.
The few times they've tried to translate an overseas show to australian it has bombed! Queer Eye is the latest hilarious example. It took them a very long time to find a cast they thoght'd work, and I think maybe 2 or 3 eps aired and it was canned... and now they're back to "the original" US version, haw.
Reality and pop-contest shows seem to be the only ones they'll remake here (Idol and the like) - and even THEN we still get the US versions of all that shoved down our gobs AS WELL.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Our Big Brother blows. All BB blows. And that cute feisty big woman who did the bum slap dance? She's now stick thin and black haired and looks weird.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Friday, 25 March 2005 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― you make me feel like a tyrannosaurus rex (deangulberry), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm liking it so far.
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Friday, 25 March 2005 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link
I was wondering what they would use for the American Gareth's sidejob. Any other time, it would've been the National Guard probably, but not with brigades being sent to Iraq right now.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 25 March 2005 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link
"... and God would have to be number four on that list."
I'm still not convinced that this needed to be done, but I think it's as well-done as it could possibly be. I'm thinking that no one else but Carell could reprise the Gervais role and be anywhere close to as good. He's got it -- that terrible mix of asshole and... well, asshole that's so painful that sometimes you can't laugh until the show's over.
(I think that's why both versions tested so low -- people aren't used to watching a comedy on television where thy cringe through the whole thing.)
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 25 March 2005 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, but only because he owns the rights and gave them his blessing. He doesn't want anything to do with it, really. There's an interview in Entertainment Weekly where he explains that it would be like David Bowie going into Beck's studio and being like, "You can't put a trumpet in there! This is my song!"
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 25 March 2005 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 25 March 2005 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 March 2005 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 25 March 2005 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Friday, 25 March 2005 06:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link
They found someone uglier than Gareth?
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Friday, 25 March 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Me neither. He always overplays -- very DO YOU SEE. His character on The Office is just GRATING and there's no reason to expect that he'll tone down in later episodes.
― Aaron A., Friday, 25 March 2005 06:52 (nineteen years ago) link
good night!
― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Austin S (Austin, Still), Friday, 25 March 2005 07:00 (nineteen years ago) link