(Re: Corner Gas) I don't think there's much danger of a remake. Executives would have to be aware the show exists in the first place. At least something like Red Green is regularly broadcast on PBS. Who shows Corner Gas anymore? (WGN doesn't.) That show's probably next to unknown in the US. I only found it because of this place!
All the more reason for a network to make their own version and claim it as "original". Back in 1970 no on in the US had ever heard of a UK sitcom called Till Death Do Us Part, so CBS made its own version called All in the Family. The UK's Steptoe and Son was a complete unknown, so a US network made Sanford and Son and claimed it as an original. But I have little faith in a Corner Gas remake being nearly as successful (artistically or commercially). It would like be more along the lines of the US remake of Steven Moffat's "Coupling" - a show that was known in the US by reputation only, and the US remake tanked.
[*]Doctor Who 2009 specials — I'm hoping that the first two ("The Next Doctor" and "Planet of the Dead") don't need to be watched in order, because I'm still waiting on the former, and just got the latter today. Good news is that with Comcast forcing me to get a digital cable box, I now have BBC America.
Not those two, no, but Planet of the Dead, Waters of Mars and The End of Time need to be watched in order as a trilogy. (However, without spoiling, the way things are set up The Next Doctor could just as easily take place after Planet of the Dead or after Waters of Mars). Bear in mind they're all being released in a box set in February, too.
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Glad to read a good review. 
