Seems like an odd choice for Syfy and they seem to be going with a few UK remakes lately as well. Be interesting to see if this goes anywhere.
Rendall & Hopkirk (deceased) remade by Syfy?
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So, this will be the --what, third remake of this series?
I kind of liked the one from 2000. I mean, come on, it had Tom Baker!
I kind of liked the one from 2000. I mean, come on, it had Tom Baker!
Nothing stays deceased in Hollywood.
Yeah I seem to remember that too, also Temis saying they're moving away from foreign remakes, and now there's 4 British shows on the slate Shameless, Skins, Being Human and this...
^For the uninitiated, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) was a British comedy detective series from the 1960's.
In the first episode, private detective Marty Hopkirk is murdered but returns as a ghost that only his partner Jeff Randall can see and hear in order to help him catch his own killer. However, he remains out of his own grave for too long and is then cursed to remain a ghost for 100 years so he continues to help Randall.
In the first episode, private detective Marty Hopkirk is murdered but returns as a ghost that only his partner Jeff Randall can see and hear in order to help him catch his own killer. However, he remains out of his own grave for too long and is then cursed to remain a ghost for 100 years so he continues to help Randall.
So, this will be the --what, third remake of this series?
I kind of liked the one from 2000. I mean, come on, it had Tom Baker!
On the downside it also had Reeves and Mortimer (actually that's unfair I quite like Mortimer)
On the huge upside it had Emilia Fox...
Vic has gotten to be quite the stuck up prat hasn't he?So, this will be the --what, third remake of this series?
I kind of liked the one from 2000. I mean, come on, it had Tom Baker!
On the downside it also had Reeves and Mortimer (actually that's unfair I quite like Mortimer)
On the huge upside it had Emilia Fox...
I suppose, but at least he used to be a bit funny... or maybe that was always Bob...
It beats cooking shows and wrestling.
Talk about a show is very different from a show seeing the light of day. In years' past, there has been much more discussion of various foreign scripted shows being remade (most of which you would never have ever heard of, since they never made it past the talking phase.) There are scads of shows for which a pilot is ordered, and that's all we ever hear about it. We don't even get to see the pilot! I'm still waiting for Revolution, Skiffy!
To provide some context, here's Skiffy's 2010-11 development slate (and this is just the stuff The Futon Critic has heard of - that site misses a lot of stuff):
Alphas
The Dome Experiment
Face Off
Forces of Nature
The Latimer Project
Marcel's Quantum Kitchen
Mr. Impossible
Paranormal Files
Relicquest
Three Inches
Untitled Artifact Search Series
Untitled Michael Rosenbaum Project (which sounds like the best of this whole mess)
Another fun or depressing thing to do is go to Futon Critic's DevWatch and scroll thru the "previously in development" lists for each network. Here's skiffy's 08-09 development slate:
Brain Trust
Danger Game
Deputized
Earthlings
Escape
Kill Switch
Revolution
Soul Evidence
The Stranded
True Believer
What If
We didn't see ANY of them!
And there were a couple decent ideas in there.The moral of this story is that don't start even rooting for a show until around this time of year, when the pilots in contention start to get announced. At that point, a show has a 50/50 chance or so of pickup. Before that, the odds are so long, don't even bother.
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The Vic and Bob version was shit - this is a show I'd actually like to see remade properly, but a lot will depend on the casting.
Personally I'd rather see a movie with Daniel Craig replacing Mike Pratt, and somebody like Simon Pegg replacing Ken Cope.
Personally I'd rather see a movie with Daniel Craig replacing Mike Pratt, and somebody like Simon Pegg replacing Ken Cope.