I smell of dust, old books and bluebells. So, they're really going to do this? : comments.
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Re: Tea Sucks
And in the spirit of fairness and balance, the UK version of 'pimp my ride' was just... ::has no words. No really. I don't::
Re: Tea Sucks
Actually, I think it was. I am slightly biased toward the one I saw first and of course RC.
Some thing just don't translate well between cultures. I was horrified when they talked about making an American version of Ab Fab.
However. if Top Gear US develops it's own unique personality and doesn't try to be Top Gear UK it may well be okay. I mean really, it's about cars and the guys who have a love of them. What could possibly go wrong?...*erm Want a list?
Re:it's about cars
I just don't understand why US TV has to remake everything, why don't they just show Top Gear? That's what the BBC would do with a hit US show.
Re: it's about cars
The fact is they do show Top Gear. And let's face it NBC isn't the BBC, they want to make shows they air their own.
When I watch TG with some people, I spend much time explaining . And you do have to admit to quite a bit of US bashing. JC never saw an American car he liked and I'm pretty sure that attitude won't fly well in a market of Midwestern car factory workers they want to sell beer, ranch dressing and crackers.
I think they want to reach an American audience that would otherwise give it a pass. So, that said, would they want to try and market a European show featuring European cars? on European roads the audience knows and/or could care nothing about? or an American version featuring, people they know, all kinds of cars in the widely differing traffic and road conditions that exist and people here drive in? With the added bonus of humor they get.(Americans can be just as nationalistic as the next guy)and the fact is humor is cultural, what is funny one place isn't necessarily funny anywhere else. The experience of being American is uniquely American as is the experience of being British is uniquely British.
This is a car culture and the way to create a new audience for this type of show would not be showing them guys they don't get and don't know driving cars with names they can't pronounce and could care less about.
That fact is the TPtB, the ones that write the checks think it wouldn't be widely accepted.
Personally I love TG and
force it onshare it with every one I can. But some just don't like it and don't get why I do. Just like some people hate Monty Python and think it's stupid and infantile like The Three Stooges on LSD.We all spend a lot of time bitching about demographics and TV programming but as far as they are concerned it's what pays the bills. Someone must be watching some crap is all I can say.
I really feel a train wreck of entertainment coming on, but what do I know? it could be the next American Chopper.
I have spent way too much time on this for who cares whatever reason trying to see both sides. The fact is, it's for a different audience that wouldn't know or care about the original.