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

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.