I wouldn't call Eleventh Hour successful. It ran only one season before getting canned.
NBC to remake Prime Suspect?
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I wouldn't call Eleventh Hour successful. It ran only one season before getting canned.
Compared to some of the drivel that runs on US channels, one season is pretty successful.
That's as it may be. What do you like from my side of the pond?
All I know is the genre stuff we get over here -- Doctor Who and its spinoffs, Primeval, Merlin, that sort of thing. Being Human didn't grab me at first, but it turned out pretty well, despite a heavy emphasis on the vampire stuff which was my least favorite thread (I am so sick of vampire stories).
I think it was a British format though, and AGT just got made first.
yes I think the UK version got delayed for some reason, so the US got its to air first.
something similar might happen with an Aussie quiz show, which five have recently picked up for Justin Lee Collins, it has yet to air down under, and the UK version might make it to air first.
something similar might happen with an Aussie quiz show, which five have recently picked up for Justin Lee Collins, it has yet to air down under, and the UK version might make it to air first.
Same hereI wish they wouldn't do a remake. I don't think anyone would be better than Helen Mirren.
. I liked the original... and I wish that execs would have something original to make, instead of remakes...
^Every play Shakespeare ever wrote was a remake. The majority of the most admired motion pictures of all time are adaptations of other works. Conversely, most "original" shows and films are just familiar stories with new names tacked on. Originality is in the execution. It doesn't matter whether your concept comes from an earlier work; all that matters is what you do with it.
PBS has as much coverage in America as the networks, as far as I know. If anyone wanted to watch this show, it's perfectly available to them. It wouldn't make any sense for networks to run what PBS already does. Why waste airtime when you could devote it to something that hasn't aired elsewhere, even if it's a remake of something else (of course, I'd much prefer something more original).
That's a very good point. I'm less bothered by remakes than I am of networks who remake shows in an already incredibly overexposed genre. The only cop show worth watching today is Dexter. How about more along those lines? (Yeah, I know, if they could do it, everyone would.)
I can always ignore a show I dislike. The real problem is airtime being hogged up by uninspired shows, when something fresh and original doesn't get aired at all.
Oh, if only. PBS may technically be available in nearly as many cities, but it's nowhere near as high-profile as the commercial networks.
I never saw the gender politics as the prime mover of Prime Suspect. That was played years before on Cagney and Lacey. What struck me was that the brass seemed to form a task force for every homicide. In Homicide Life on the Street terms we were following "red balls"
In almost every other cop series, besides Kojak or Hawaii 5-0 you had the detective team. The "primary" and his partner fighting the system. At best he was a sergeant and only outranked the local patrol cops. Then came The Closer.
Suddenly we have a LAPD chief with lieutenants, sergeants detectives all doing the ordinary task all to get the star into the box to do the interrogation. I had thought that it was inspired by Detective Chief Superintendent "gov'ner" Tennison
The Cruise movie?.
Episode 1 of a Prime Suspect series: We have a body, the gov'ner has the entire detective squad in a room with each getting micro assignment to track down. Meanwhile the supervisor does the main interviews and follows the main lead. Maybe 15 to 20 detectives working the one case. There seems to be nothing else as the squad room is all dedicated to the one murder.
Most other cop shows, there is a murder, the detective or detective sergeant and his partner works alone. They come to give reports to their immediate supervisor normally a Black person in position of authority who passes down the pressure from higher about the case or perhaps has an ideal to follow up. There may be other squad detectives around but they are not all working the one case.
The sexism of Tennyson's colleagues was played up a lot in the first few episodes of Prime Suspect (coupled with racism in Prime Suspect III, the one with Colin Salmon as Sgt. Bob Wilson). Cracker also dealt with tensions among the police squad, to an even greater extent or at least more severe consequences.
The Cruise movie?.
A "red ball" was their term for a predicted homicide, since that's what the name of the victim was inscribed on.
^Whatever. I defer to your recollection of the film. My implied point was, I was puzzled by the use of the term "red ball" in reference to Homicide: Life on the Street. I don't know how or why it was used in that show.
On The Wire and Homicide Red Ball is used to describe cases which cause heavy police, media and political attention. Where as the normal murder of a corner boy is only known to the homicide detectives and the victims family.