Re: Why don't networks air nonAmerican dramas/sitcoms?

WQ wrote:
On Nov 29, 11:33 pm, "Uniblab" <unib...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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For ABC - with Ugly Betty going possibly into deep 2008 without new
episodes why not hire translators to dub the original UB and put the
original in the 8pm Thursday slot. I believe it was a short run series
so do 2 hours every Thursday until new UB episodes can air.
Oh, right - ABC would just clean up in the ratings with an English-dubbed
version of a cheaply-produced latin telenovela.

Don't quit your day job.

--- The Big 3 used to air British series regularly between the late
50s and early 70s. Time was when American viewers actually used to be
smart enough to understand the Brit accent.

Lost was a major hit, and yet it has had regular characters like Charlie (who had a British accent); Claire (who had an Aussie accent); and Jin (who doesn't even speak much English; all his lines are in Korean with English subtitles). So I don't think that's the problem.

I think the problem is that British TV doesn't seem to have new TV series whose quality approaches what they used to have: The Avengers, The Prisoner, Monty Python, etc. In 2005, the critic at The Times of London said that American TV drama is better than British TV drama. In fact, he thought Lost was even better than most of the offerings in live British theater on the live stage.

Look what NBC is importing from British TV these days: Deal or No Deal; The Baby Borrowers. Look what British TV is importing from America: Lost; Heroes; the new Battlestar Galactica. We're getting the short end of that deal.


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