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NBC to remake Prime Suspect?

Star Wolf said:
BrotherBenny said:
wamdue said:
you know im surprised we not have some type of SOCA series yet, would not have to be a TheBill spin-off, but when it was first launched it was dubbed a "British FBI" and I though it would make a good TV show.
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Wamdue, the reason a SOCA-based series wouldn't work is because it is an intelligence-gathering organisation and none of the people working for them have powers of arrest unless specifically granted for a particular case. The British FBI that it was originally identified as was a complete misnomer. The SOCA is more like Interpol than anything else. Intelligence and supervision only.
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It could work. TPTB just have to remember they are making a show and not a documentary. In the recent Criminal Minds we had a show about FBI criminal profilers but instead of the local police moving in to make the arrest week after week the FBI Agent/doctor would be the guy to make the take down.
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thanks for filling me in BrotherBenny that does explain why its never had a TV show.
 
It's no different from CSI having crime-scene analysts carrying guns and interviewing suspects like they were cops. Or the various shows that treat the Department of Homeland Security as if it were a bunch of agents with guns and badges going out and actively hunting terrorists, despite being simply a Cabinet-level bureaucracy that coordinates the efforts of those agencies that actually do deal with national security issues. And lots of shows over the decades have portrayed Interpol as an actual police force with the power of arrest.
 
Christopher said:
It's no different from CSI having crime-scene analysts carrying guns and interviewing suspects like they were cops. Or the various shows that treat the Department of Homeland Security as if it were a bunch of agents with guns and badges going out and actively hunting terrorists, despite being simply a Cabinet-level bureaucracy that coordinates the efforts of those agencies that actually do deal with national security issues. And lots of shows over the decades have portrayed Interpol as an actual police force with the power of arrest.
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Like I said, since when have TV shows been accurate?
 
It's nice when they are though. I remember when the UK version of L&O came out, Cultcross said the two 'tecs actually reminded him of real cops he knew.
 
I think people expect more accuracy today, though I could be mistaken. I for one would not be happy to see a SOCA series with "guns and badges."

And just to let you know, there was a show called "Serious and Organised" based on the major case division of the Metropolitan police, it didn't last more than a season.

I prefer shows like Waking the Dead, New Tricks, and the like.
 
wamdue said:
well I expect more accuracy from UK TV, even from ITV
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That's probably why there isn't a SOCA show. BBC tend to do more police procedurals than ITV these days, though Taggart and Lewis (inspired by Morse) are still going. But we've had plenty of police shows that didn't last long over here.
 
I had not realised SOCA did not have power of arrest, ashamed to say its seems I was take in by the hype of the them being a British FBI
 
I had to look up what SOCA stood for. "Serious Organised Crime Agency?" That's an odd name to my American ears. Is there any organized crime that isn't serious? If the mobsters are being frivolous, is it out of their jurisdiction? Would they be unable to go after the Joker?

Or are they called that to differentiate themselves from another organized crime agency that's just pretending?
 
Christopher said:
I had to look up what SOCA stood for. "Serious Organised Crime Agency?" That's an odd name to my American ears. Is there any organized crime that isn't serious? If the mobsters are being frivolous, is it out of their jurisdiction? Would they be unable to go after the Joker?

Or are they called that to differentiate themselves from another organized crime agency that's just pretending?
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It's not so much serious organised crime, as serious and organised crime.
 
Christopher said:
I had to look up what SOCA stood for. "Serious Organised Crime Agency?" That's an odd name to my American ears. Is there any organized crime that isn't serious? If the mobsters are being frivolous, is it out of their jurisdiction? Would they be unable to go after the Joker?

Or are they called that to differentiate themselves from another organized crime agency that's just pretending?
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Christopher, the name is actually taken from the Serious and Organised Crime Group, a former division of the Metropolitan Police that dealt with white collar crime, money laundering, people trafficking and other such things. The SOCG was rolled into the SOCA with the intelligence branch of Her Majesty's Customs and Excise (the British border service) and the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (computer crimes), in England and Wales. It also liaises with similar organisations in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
 
I can think of no less than five failed British to American TV re-visionings. One had two failed pilots, and another couldn't even get it's pilot picked up.

How about NBC CAREFULLY PICKS something original, that DOESN'T suck?
 
Tharpdevenport said:
I can think of no less than five failed British to American TV re-visionings. One had two failed pilots, and another couldn't even get it's pilot picked up.

How about NBC CAREFULLY PICKS something original, that DOESN'T suck?
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That's why I keep saying the female murder police is nothing new. The major case task force type squad hasn't been done since Kojak and Hawaii 5-0 and may play as new in America.
 
How about NBC CAREFULLY PICKS something original, that DOESN'T suck?
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How's about this?

Aaaand yet ANOTHER police procedural!

The project, from Warner Bros. TV and Bruckheimer TV, tells the stories of a team charged with making sure fugitive criminals don't evade justice.
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:rommie: Christ, it's like they're deliberately trying to piss us off. Hey, how about a team that lets fugitive criminals get away. At least that would be different.

And in related networks-we-wish-would-die news, Fox decides that sci-fi Westerns are cool after all! (Not a joke.)
 
Temis the Vorta said:
:rommie: Christ, it's like they're deliberately trying to piss us off. Hey, how about a team that lets fugitive criminals get away. At least that would be different.
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Not on purpose but I remember the pilot and the first year of Miami Vice when they were showing the hopelessness of the drug war the criminal often got away. Calderone flew away in the pilot to make mischief later. However in the second season premiere Crockett and Tubbs shot down a kingpin flying away with their handguns and sawed off shotgun:klingon:.

Then there is The Wire! HBO I know, but Miami Vice was NBC during another low period in their ratings battle.
 
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