Re: Teevee question for Ozians

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:24:51 +0100, Jasper Janssen wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:55:02 GMT, "Peter H. Coffin"
<hellsop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 20 Oct 2008 02:59:45 GMT, Joe Zeff wrote:
Actually, there's a good reason why Red Dwarf won't work in an American
version: there's no real, acceptable equivalent to "working class bloke"
in LeftPondia.

Not anymore, no. Lear and O'Conner pretty much did it in, in the early
70's.

Strange, the original British version of that show didn't have the same
effect.

Perhaps it wasn't intended to, or failed to be much more than than an
amusing half-hour for most people. Lear DID intend to, and eventually
received a National Medal of Arts with the commentarty "Norman Lear has
held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it."

--
When you have a thermic lance, everything looks like hours of fun.
-- Christian Wagner in a.s.r
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