ABC to remake Spooks in the USA!

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This seems like a very bad idea to me.

(13-08-2010 12:26 AM)TygerBright Wrote:  OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Cousins, will you ever learn?!? Red Dwarf, Touching Evil, Life on Mars, LITTLE BRITAIN......!?!?
Some things are better left alone...

There was an American Red Dwarf?

(13-08-2010 04:45 AM)JHyde Wrote:  I think that the US develops its own very good, original drama when it wants to so I'm curious as to why they want to poach this. American dramas right now are really plentiful and very good quality and not all of them are pay TV projects either.

Also, how will they be developing it? Is it still about MI-5 or will it be about the CIA or FBI? I'm confused as to what exactly they plan to do with the format.

Did we already have our Spooks? It was called 24.

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(13-08-2010 06:33 PM)Naivety Wrote:  I wouldn't be at all interested in an American version of Spooks if they are just going to use the same plots but in the FBI/CIA/whatever. What would be more interesting (and original)is if the programme was from the point of view of the CIA agents based in the UK, with some of the core British characters playing their existing roles - in the way Christine and whatever her name was in the last series - do in our beloved Spooks. Now that would be worth watching!

That would be interesting to me, but I don't see it happening.