The BBC doesn't, but Broadchurch had nothing to do with the BBC.
Broadchurch vs. Gracepoint
The BBC doesn't, but Broadchurch had nothing to do with the BBC.
I wonder if it has to do with the fact that they don't think Americans would be interested in a British show?
I know that when I watched Broadchurch on BBC America it has commercials just like Dr Who does. I hate commercials which is why I DVR the episodes then watch later so I can fast forward through them.
I think it depends Being Human was as good as the British as was Queer as Folk. But both Red Dwarf pilots were horrible.
Who's "they". As I mentioned before, from the folks I know who work in US TV, it's all about scheduling and season lengths and nothing at all to do with xenophobia, despite what random theories folks like to speculate with on the intrawebs. People on the whole are surprisingly not stupid, and handle things not in their own exact accent just fine, with minor exceptions.
Broadchurch is on BBC America? It's not a BBC show; it was made by ITV. Weird. I don't really know anything about BBC America, though (not a request for information).
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
I watch Dr. Who on Netflix - and love it . . . . .No commercials! Binge watching at season 7 episode 9 since the start of the Chris Eckleson season, was that season 4? Any way, I have watched many British shows, and not the American remakes. I still have many in my Que still.
Eccleston was series 1 of the 2005 relaunch. It's on series 8 now, with Capaldi.
It has to with what will appeal to the 18 to 48 age group. And maybe Fox thought that making their own version would appeal more than the British version. It is an interesting thing because Fox like NBC, CBS and ABC shows usually have 18 episodes but Gracepoint is being advertised as a special ten part crime drama.
BBC America has ITV shows as well they advertise themselves as everything British but lately they have been branching out and showing shows like Star Trek the Next Gen.
Nah, you're misunderstanding me. The nationality of the show has little to with it. Americans aren't dumb. It's scheduling. They want to be able to make 10 years of it (if it proves popular), because that's the American TV model. They can't do that with a single ITV one-off TV series of 10 episodes. ITV ain't gonna make 10 series of it.
You'll see what I mean. If it's successful, they'll make another series next year.
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Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
I have seen a few of the British mini-serieses and actually like them very much. It has 'closure' to the story. Unlike the doctor, I actually like endings. It means the start of something new.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Yeah even as I wrote my statement above I was reminded that the US version of Being Human was possibly better than the UK one, so it can happen - but the exceptions are few and far between
Morrus;6411180As I keep saying said:
OMG you've just blown every fundamental belief I had about the true nature of reality!!!
It was a commercial station? Well, that's still an issue. In the UK, commercial stations are limited to about 7 minutes of ads per hour. Meanwhile, in the US, we get about 18 minutes of ads. So, in general, each show would have to lose about 11 minutes to fit into the one-hour slot, right? The original episodes might not be able to survive that without rewrites and reshooting anyway.
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