{"id":1703,"date":"2005-11-18T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2005-11-18T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-19T01:26:00","slug":"1703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

This doesn’t bode well<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The United Kingdom’s Sky One is said to be planning a new series inspired by the cult 1960s series The Prisoner<\/i>….The show will not take place in the famous “Village” setting of the original — shot in the north Wales village of Portmeirion — the industry weekly Broadcast reported. But it is understood the themes of paranoia, conspiracy and identity crisis will remain, the BBC reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it’s more like “something we wrote that on closer inspection is really just a Prisoner<\/i> ripoff*<\/sup> so we’re going to call it a remake instead?<\/p>\n

See, we Americans don’t need to ruin classic British television shows by remaking them. They’re perfectly capable of doing it on their own.<\/p>\n

Addendum<\/strong>: The Brits are also capable of creating their own original crap, too. No, I’m not talking about Coupling<\/i><\/a>, the Friends<\/i> ripoff with a lot more sex. (Although what I’ve seen of that isn’t very good either, and it’s not difficult to see why its<\/i> American remake failed right out of the gate.) I’m talking about Space Cadets<\/i><\/a>, set to air on Channel 4 in early December. In it, “contestants” will undergo weeks of training for what they think is a five-day orbit of Earth aboard a Russian space shuttle — but what is, in actuality, nothing but a hoax. In some ways, this is reminiscent of The Joe Schmo Show<\/i><\/a>, in which “star” Matt Gould thought he was competing for the top prize on a weekly reality show, but where in fact all of the other contestants were actors and the show was essentially about duping him.<\/p>\n

However, there<\/i>, Gould was actually paid the prize money at the end of the series’ run. The show was actually, surprisingly, not half bad. If, in this case, Channel 4 sends the contestants into space anyway once the hoax has been revealed, that’s one thing. Otherwise, it just sounds unconscionably cruel.<\/font><\/p>\n

* something I suspect it’s not at all difficult to create.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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