The Orville Season Two - Thoughts?

Dannyalcatraz · Mar 23, 2019

Morrus said:
.... and The Orville.

Yeah, NOW! After all those years of exporting- arguably- some of our worst TV.

Maybe American TV execs got embarrassed by the quality gap and...NAAAAAAHHHH!!!

Morrus · Mar 23, 2019

Dannyalcatraz said:
Yeah, NOW! After all those years of exporting- arguably- some of our worst TV.

Maybe American TV execs got embarrassed by the quality gap and...NAAAAAAHHHH!!!

Well, in the past you also exported Star Trek and The West Wing and The Sopranos. So don’t feel bad!

Dannyalcatraz · Mar 23, 2019

4 shows vs dozens? Seems balanced.

. Especially when we have so many shows we ripped off from you guys.

I can’t remember which UK show it was that Three’s Company was inspired by, but I know Friends was inspired by Coupling.

Morrus · Mar 23, 2019

Dannyalcatraz said:
4 shows vs dozens? Seems balanced. . Especially when we have so many shows we ripped off from you guys.

I can’t remember which UK show it was that Three’s Company was inspired by, but I know Friends was inspired by Coupling.

It wasn’t an exhaustive list.

Coupling came after Friends, though. Steven “Doctor Who” Moffat, IIRC.

Dannyalcatraz · Mar 23, 2019

Morrus said:
It wasn’t an exhaustive list.

Coupling came after Friends, though. Steven “Doctor Who” Moffat, IIRC.

Thaaat’s right- Friends begat Coupling which begat a watered-down American version of Coupling.

Aeson · Mar 24, 2019

I enjoy Death in Paradise. The Cat from Red Dwarf is on it. And Father Dougal from Father Ted.

Zardnaar · Mar 24, 2019

There's been a lot of crap UK shows as well.

Percentage wise US tv probably isn't any worse than most countries efforts. With so much being made you are going to get a lot of crap.

Very rare for an American version of the show to be better than the UK one. Maybe Shameless and The Office ymmv though. British comedy shows are probably hands down better though to many good ones.

NZ tv is fairly atrocious though. We have made 1 great show and a handful of good ones.

Ryujin · Mar 24, 2019

Zardnaar said:
There's been a lot of crap UK shows as well.

Percentage wise US tv probably isn't any worse than most countries efforts. With so much being made you are going to get a lot of crap.

Very rare for an American version of the show to be better than the UK one. Maybe Shameless and The Office ymmv though. British comedy shows are probably hands down better though to many good ones.

NZ tv is fairly atrocious though. We have made 1 great show and a handful of good ones.

Would "The Almighty Johnsons" fit in there somewhere?