being human remake what?!

[amezri]

Apparently Syfy plans on doing an American version of Being Human.

OMGWTFWHY?! Leave it alone, you hack network!

Says Syfy president:

"It turned out great as we can now do an American version," Syfy president Dave Howe told The Hollywood Reporter. "We've always been keen on vampires and werewolves, and we loved the originality of Being Human, the fact that the fantastical creatures in it are very young, accessible and charming."

Howe said the Syfy version will not just "slavishly replicate the British version."

This is the comment I posted in reply to the article, which is pretty much all I can say coherently right now:

OH FFS. Could American television please STOP remaking British series?! It rarely, if ever, ends well. The Office was a complete FLUKE and probably only translated well because Ricky Gervais was involved.

"We've always been keen on vampires and werewolves, and we loved the originality of Being Human, the fact that the fantastical creatures in it are very young, accessible and charming." - Howe

Okay. Yeah. That's not actually what the show is about. AT ALL. That's like saying Star Trek was a great show because you love the girls in tiny dresses, the spaceship, and the womanizing captain. Trufax, but that didn't make the show good.

I kind of hope this show crashes before the pilot even gets shot. Like the Spaced remake. And American Top Gear.

I'm having rage right now.

Comments

[darkmoon711.livejournal.com]

SyFy doesn't know how to stop ruining things. I mean look, they are still making those horrible movies. LOL.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Well, for those movies, see tirgaya's explanation below. That theory might work there.

It's not just Syfy (oh man, it still hurts to type that) doing the terrible remakes of British television, unfortunately :\

They make money

[tirgaya.livejournal.com]

The reason SyFy does these stupid movies and such is that it makes them money. They get ratings and sell ads- because viewers of those shows don't skip ads as often as viewers of more popular "better" shows do. (Better in this sense being critical acclaim.)

My theory is that DVR users are just leaving the dumb things on when not using them... resulting in data being collected that says you are watching TV without skipping commercials on whatever channel you last watched.

So... please turn off your DVR's when you stop using the TV

Re: They make money

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Except they don't make money. They shoot a few episodes, air it and it's so awful it gets cancelled after a week or three. (See: Viva Laughlin, Coupling, Life on Mars, and Eleventh Hour)

Your theory might hold for those awful Syfy movies that air on Saturday nights (when people tend to leave the TV on all day), but I don't think it works for primetime television. People actually are watching all that awful reality TV.

[dumdeedum.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way about MTV getting it's hands on "Skins" for a Baltimore-based, US remake.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Wait. WHAT? Oh man, that's going to be so awful :\

[dumdeedum.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I couldn't believe it when I heard. Have they seen what's happened to teen shows in these recent years? The one OK aspect is that one of the creators is involved but obviously that guarantees nothing, not only is it the US but MTV!

[forcryinoutloud.livejournal.com]

Okay wait, last time I checked the BBC was in the process of filming the second season of Being Human...and SyFy wasnts to remake it...while it's still airing?! That they want to remake it at all is just utterly ridiculous (and would be horrific to say the least) but while the show is still going?? That's just, WOW!

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Yep. I'm betting they wanted the rights to show it on Syfy and they couldn't get it, so now they want to try and compete with BBC America's airing of it. It's going to be so awful.

[forcryinoutloud.livejournal.com]

*sporfle* Like they could EVER compete. *laughs* It really, really is going to be so horrifically awful.

[assassin-chick.livejournal.com]

Oh, obviously. I love how they have to remake current shows - because obviously an American isn't going to be able to watch and enjoy, or relate to some British show. I mean - they all talk funny! And they aren't American! Who would watch some crap like that???

Pfft.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Well, BBC America is already airing it over here. I'm wondering if maybe Syfy tried to get the rights to air it (like they had Doctor Who for a while) and couldn't get it. So instead, they're going to be big babies and try to do a crappy copy of it, just like most of their movies are copies of big budget films.

[urbanfae.livejournal.com]

*Facepalm* I really hope this ends horribly for them. I don't even want to imagine the horror that'll be an Americanized version of the show.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

I'm almost afraid I'd tune in to see the pilot out of morbid curiosity. Hopefully it doesn't even make it that far.