ABC to remake Spooks in the USA!

[A Cousin]

(13-05-2011 03:27 AM)loladom Wrote:  Not even going to read the replies.

One word - NO! Buy the BBC version and screen it. Seriously, no offence but why do the Americans always have to try to reinvent the wheel and then tell the world they invented it!

There are some amazing American shows, don't get me wrong. But things that are good can remain so made outside of the US and from a non US perspective.

Drives me insane.

Arrrgh!

US stations have bought the BBC version and are running it - on PBS. Many affiliates have made it to S8. And it's working just fine. Just look at how many of us have "discovered" it within the last 2 years alone - 7 years too late?

I agree loladom. We have enough of our own good programs, why do we have to use others ideas? Besides, we have "our" version of Spooks - it's called 24. I do not wish to compare the two because they are really not the same thing. Love it or hate it, the fact remains that it was it's own very successful entity.

Here's why a straight remake of Spooks won't work in the US. A good portion of the reason that Spooks works as well as it does is it has evolved organically in every way over it's life span. Case in point, the character of Harry. Need I say more? It has rolled and changed with the times. You can't recreate that because it is unique.

All that said, I don't mind the KUDOS making a buck off of the Disney juggernaut. Go for it, I say, as long as it helps them fund the kind of programming they do into the future. DSS may be right about an end of life sell-out, but I hope what they are doing is finding alternate funding sources in order to keep Spooks going into an S11.