red indian
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Oh dear oh dear.....Brit comedy show "The office" looks set to break in to the tough American TV comedy market after rave reviews following an airing on digital cable. So far so good but......TV moguls are circling, with a view to buying the format to make an "American friendly" version. Oh lordy! god spare us the "American friendly" versions of Brit TV shows. No doubt we can look forward to the usual politically correct, thinly disguised morality play, stripped of all its edge and vitality, stuffed with bleachpermed plastic boobed hollywood air heads and square jawed former diving champions who display the natural acting ability of a thunderbirds puppet.
All this of course is neccessary to avoid upsetting "our sponsers" and their "target audience" so whats the bloody point? damned if i can see it, they might as well carry on with series 247 of "Freinds" but that it not going to stop them, so i have a plan to save the world from this holacoust. I intend to take inspiration from that plucky band of anti war protestors who are on thier way to Iraq to act as human shields to deter American bombers. My view is that while a war is over and done with in a short time and soon forgotten, a TV show gets repeats, sometimes for years and years, so if its good enough for Iraq its good enough for British comedy.
So I am on my way to the states very soon, and plan to strap myself over the broadcasting tower at Universal Television studios to prevent this cruel, wicked, cowardly act. Come on guys stick to what you do best, war and junk food , leave the funny stuff to us ok?
All this of course is neccessary to avoid upsetting "our sponsers" and their "target audience" so whats the bloody point? damned if i can see it, they might as well carry on with series 247 of "Freinds" but that it not going to stop them, so i have a plan to save the world from this holacoust. I intend to take inspiration from that plucky band of anti war protestors who are on thier way to Iraq to act as human shields to deter American bombers. My view is that while a war is over and done with in a short time and soon forgotten, a TV show gets repeats, sometimes for years and years, so if its good enough for Iraq its good enough for British comedy.
So I am on my way to the states very soon, and plan to strap myself over the broadcasting tower at Universal Television studios to prevent this cruel, wicked, cowardly act. Come on guys stick to what you do best, war and junk food , leave the funny stuff to us ok?
). Also, they talked about how different the show Big Brother is in Britain, where the show is practically a channel, aired all day, kinda like ED TV or the Truman Show, and they don't edit stuff or try to ham it up.
