OT: Hostility in Forums

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Randallw said:
In my experience, worst comedies? US remakes of British comedies.

A key factor I think is that British comedies have an idea what they want to write. Sort of "I have a few great ideas for episodes" and they condense it down into 6 great episodes a year. In the US they seem to have an idea and when they get made the writers have to wrack their brains to develop 26 epsiodes a year.

Not only that, but the show has to last four seasons/100 episodes to be considered viable for syndication, which is almost pure profits.

There's a great show called "Top Gear". It's about cars. Now that's normally an area I have zero interest in but it's entertaining because the presenters make jokes about stuff and have fun. If the car they're testing is a piece of junk they will call it a piece of junk. I read lately that Jay Leno thinks the idea of a US version is doomed as the presenters can't criticise anything in case the sponsors take offence.

That's something that could work on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service; AFAIK, the only nonprofit TV network in the US). PBS is where the original versions of "Brit-coms" get aired. (Also on BBC America, but that's a cable channel so I've never seen it.)

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