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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 6396403" data-attributes="member: 27897">Tennant's American accent is good, but rather jarring when you've seen his previous work.Given that most American series now do a 'mid season break', the length of series is beginning to look more and more like the UK 10-12 episode model. There may be be 22 or 23 shows in their 'season', but there's a definite split in the middle. Some shows are even doing the 12 episode model, over here in North America. With how long some rather good American series have been dragged out, to the point at which they've become caricatures of themselves (ER and House, to name two, with Castle being in danger of going the same way), I'm beginning to envy how many UK series have a beginning, middle, and end that resolves the lot.Odds are they won't make any changes to the original story, despite some already having seen the original on cable. In fact I believe Broadchurch is currently running in the US. That makes the choice of remaking it even more odd. I saw if several months ago, on Canadian cable.And I mentioned Red Dwarf for a specific reason. When they made two separate pilots, for the American audience, they tried to retain much of the English slang that's part of what made it so funny. The majority of North American viewers had no idea what they were saying and hearing the expressions said with a Mid-Western American accent, except for the lines delivered by Jane Leeves (I could have sworn that she called herself 'Jan' when she first got over here), made them make absolutely no sense. Unfortunately North American television and film making has become largely moribund. They're casting around in all directions for the ideas of someone else, that have already been successful, because they have none of their own left. They're even going to be making a movie based on the old "Man from Uncle" series, that's slated for release next year. To be frank I expected that back when "The Avengers" (Patrick MacNee, not superheroes) was released, some years back, but they've waited until now.</blockquote>

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