As you know,
Peep Show is one of my favorites of the dozens of BBC shows
I've discovered over the last 2 years:
I for one am able to relate to both characters, something I could never
do with George/Jerry as I could only really relate to George, not Jerry.
I spent years and years like Jeremy, completely useless and draining
those around me, and I've always spoken in my head like Mark, shredding
the patheticness (which isn't even a real word) of myself 24/7 while saying the opposite to anyone in front of me.
But now Starz is looking to
make an American version:
Peep Show, one of the best and most celebrated British comedies
of the past decade, is getting remade to remove all of those pesky
accents. Starz has put in an order for an American version of the series,
which is shot from the first-person perspective of the two main
characters. Series creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong will be
consulting producers on the US adaptation, while Eli Jorne of Blunt Talk
and Wilfred will write the half-hour pilot and be the showrunner. No
word on who will be cast to fill in for original actors David Mitchell
and Robert Webb, who frankly feel pretty irreplaceable. But hey, people
thought the US adaptation of The Office was a terrible idea, and that ended up working out pretty well.
What's the purpose of this? I understand in the old days, before we had access to BBC shows, it made to sense to adapt the best of British tv
(All in the Family and Sanford & Son, for example...HEARD of 'em?) to American tv. But nowadays you can easily watch every episode of
Peep Show - it's on Hulu, it's on Netflix, it's on Acorn, and on and on and on. Also, the BBC unleashing its entire archives is supposed to
(SUPPOSED TO!!) be happening this year. There's no way they're topping the original so why try, when the original is now just as easy to access as the new version would be? Wtf?
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