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October 23, 2007
THE IT CROWD Creator Says "No" to Learning and/or Hugging
Apparently the USA version will not get to air. I can't say I'm sorry to hear that. I did not see The PTBs translating the british humor very well(see 1st season of THE OFFICE or that godawful American version of COUPLING).
British IT CROWD creator, Graham Linehan, thinks on what it'd take to make his creation work for an American audience.
As far as I can make out, even the oddest US mainstream sitcom–’Seinfeld’, say– is rooted in the real world. Mainstream American audiences aren’t used to characters who can cling to ceilings, or sit calmly playing computer games while a fire is raging beside them…all that crap that makes me laugh. I’m not saying they’re incapable of handling this kind of humour, I’m just saying that if you really intend to do this kind of nutty show, you can’t just grab the scripts and slap a few American actors on it. You need to rethink the whole thing, so that people who haven’t seen, say, ‘Blackadder’ about a thousand times, don’t get turned off by all the silly.Anyway, this brings me to my main reason for writing this post. It’s a long shot, but should anyone from NBC find the project lying around in a drawer before the option is up and decide to give it another go, I thought I’d do a quick checklist of things they might try in order to give any future version a snowball’s chance in hell of finding an audience.
His thoughts are worth the read.
(via the beat, Graham Linehan's blog)
Posted by Groonk at October 23, 2007 05:34 PM | Ministry of Blogged, Culture, Tee Vee
