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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9708720" data-attributes="member: 78087">One rather random personal contribution to this discussion - we just went to see This is Spinal Tap for the first time, at the cinema. I’d heard most of the jokes and seen a few clips but I’d never seen it before, and loved it.The reason this is relevant, at least for me, is that despite having mostly English characters doing a certain thing in a fairly British way, the film is basically entirely American. Apart from a couple of actors (Tony Hendra as Ian and June Chadwick as Jeanine), all the main cast and crew are American, especially the writers (mostly Rob Reiner and Christopher Guest*). And the film is much the better for it, in pretty much every way - it’s funnier, gentler, more affectionate, and much less excruciating than I think an English version would have been.*We can argue if Guest is English but when he made the film he hadn’t lived in the U.K. since he was a child and seems to have been fully American, culturally speaking, and still seems to identify as such despite now technically being a member of the House of Lords.So I guess I’m saying that I can see that in a similar vein, an American writer and team could do an excellent job of delivering on a British property like Doctor Who, maybe even better than a British one, if they come to it from a place of respect and affection, and are also really talented.</blockquote>