The IT Crowd Become Dirty Americans
Channel 4 series The IT Crowd was pretty funny. I was looking for an episode today and found there is an american remake currently in production. The american version of The Office is dreadful, and I expect this will be the same so I thought I’d make the point: There is no reason for remaking a series other than to appeal to a larger proportion of people and therefor make more money. Remakes are more cost effective than writing a new series. So they got rid of Chris O’Dowd and Katherine Parkinson and replaced them with Joel McHale and Jessica St. Clair respectively (presumably as O’Down is too hard to understand if you’re a stupid american and Parkinson isn’t Jessica St.Clair) yet kept Richard Ayoade, I suspect because just being British makes him a bit geeky. Lowest common denominator comedy - exactly what we don’t need.
Why is it that at the end of the day, what ever anyone sincerely claims is top of their agenda it is actually always money. This renders to me at least any other sincere claim worthless.
Blah. Always the money, never the substance…
Fake american IT Crowd | Real British IT Crowd
It’s not all bad though as according to these two reports NBC have cancelled production
http://entertainmentnow.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/nbc-may-be-considering-pulling-the-plug-on-it/
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-nbcmaydroptheitcrowd,0,7647371.story
american audiences seem to be a bit confused that for the first time in 30 years NBC failed to air a new series in Autum 2007. Bit odd that they didn’t just air the original.
On a lighter but still financially related note, this spoof piracy advert featured on The IT Crowd Series 2 Episode 3 is great:
They’re remaking Spaced as well.
Apart from the fact that a) it will probably have little, if any, relevance to U.S. audiences; b) even remade in the UK this year it would probably have less relevance than it did when it first aired; c)why why why why?
It makes me cringe that money will be thrown at remakes when there is probably an untapped mine of new or original ideas floating around out there.
Don’t even get me started on Asian Cinema/Hollywood. Ugh.