Fox to redo 'Absolutely Fabulous'
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Oh dear God no.
As if the original wasn't horrible enough. But a Fox REMAKE?!
The universe will implode in absolute awfulness.
As if the original wasn't horrible enough. But a Fox REMAKE?!
The universe will implode in absolute awfulness.
It must be hot on the heels of Kath and Kim's success. 
I expect it'll turn out like the remake of Red Dwarf.
They'll yet again completely miss the point and show lack of understanding at what makes a British comedy "funny".
They'll yet again completely miss the point and show lack of understanding at what makes a British comedy "funny".
I, for one, have *never* understood what makes British Comedy "funny".
British comedy focuses more on wit and metaphor while American comedy focuses on situations.
I like witty and metaphoric comedy. Plenty of examples in it in American comedy.
I just don't find British comedy funny. I've seriously watched many British comedy acts and sitcoms and didn't laugh. I HATE Benny Hill and Monty Python. Neither are the least bit funny to me.
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
Red Dwarf and Fawlty Towers are the only British comedies I found funny
ooh goodie, there is no way this can go wrong
You're kidding...right?
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
Mitch Huwitz should focus on the Arrested Development movie
Oooh, looks like someone already beat them to it...
I recognise Kim Cattrall and (I think?) Sarah Jessica Parker, but who are the other two?
Oooh, looks like someone already beat them to it...
I recognise Kim Cattrall and (I think?) Sarah Jessica Parker, but who are the other two?
Skanks...
Forget Python. People who make Python references are the people who haven't watched British television since the 80s.
And honestly? Some of the best stuff comes from the panel shows which is based entirely on verbal wit. There's just no American equivalent to that kind of humor in America. Talk shows, maybe? But even then, it's more about shilling for an actor/singer/writer than it is about trying to be funny.
I only watch The Big Bang Theory, but I can't think of any that are remotely similar to British sitcoms. The beats are usually based on the absurdity of a known characteristic or of a situation. All of the CBS Monday night sitcoms are based on the characters being wacky given a certain circumstance... same with the NBC Thursday night sitcoms.
If there's something you were thinking of, then by all means I'd like to know what it is.
Wow, they're still trying to do this? It was back in 1996(!) when Saunders and Lumley played their AbFab characters on Roseanne when she was interested in working on a remake.
Will fail like K&K.
The Yanks just don't understand the brilliance of British humour. The original worked because the women were middle-aged ex-hippies who were trying to clutch onto the boozy, sex-filled, drug-crazed excess of their misspent youths, in a world that had passed them by.
The Yank version will be PC and tested before focus groups.
Fuck that shit.
The Yanks just don't understand the brilliance of British humour. The original worked because the women were middle-aged ex-hippies who were trying to clutch onto the boozy, sex-filled, drug-crazed excess of their misspent youths, in a world that had passed them by.
The Yank version will be PC and tested before focus groups.
Fuck that shit.
Good Will Riker
Admiral
^^^
You Brits are so over emotional.
The American counterpart will be a whole new animal, and the least it will do is at least bring attention to the original British show.
Sidebar: Just for the record, British hippies were not "real hippies" but were an imitative British sub-culture, because they did not march and protest against the Vietnam War in American college campuses, and definitely were not at Woodstock in 1969 like the hippies of the American counter-culture movement at the time. The British hippies got all the benefits (counter-culture music, recreational drugs, free love) and celebrated without going through all the anti-establishment angst, politics, and suffering of the American youths at the time.
You Brits are so over emotional.
The American counterpart will be a whole new animal, and the least it will do is at least bring attention to the original British show.
Sidebar: Just for the record, British hippies were not "real hippies" but were an imitative British sub-culture, because they did not march and protest against the Vietnam War in American college campuses, and definitely were not at Woodstock in 1969 like the hippies of the American counter-culture movement at the time. The British hippies got all the benefits (counter-culture music, recreational drugs, free love) and celebrated without going through all the anti-establishment angst, politics, and suffering of the American youths at the time.
Tulin - you'll note it's Tulin (not Tuln) - is Australian.^^^
You Brits are so over emotional.
Like all American attempts to remake classic British comedy, this will fail utterly. What a waste of time.
Well, there's The Office I guess.
The second Bill Cosby show was a remake of One Foot in the Grave.
And there are a few others.
The second Bill Cosby show was a remake of One Foot in the Grave.
And there are a few others.