Comments | catvincent: A remake too far

catvincent

A remake too far

Oct 21, 2007 21:14

I consider this a sign of the coming Apocalypse.

' Rupert Murdoch's FOX network is planning an American remake of the 1970's British BBC sitcom "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em"Unlike the article writer, I have no nostalgia about the original. It made me cringe when my parents watched it when I was a kid. The barrage of dreadful impersonators made me ( Read more... )

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lucybond October 21 2007, 20:56:26 UTC

The only impressive thing about the show was the stunts that were all done by Michael Crawford himself. The character, & the situations were all designed to make you squirm, & I know I did, too.

fragiletender October 21 2007, 21:14:02 UTC

God, I hate that show.

astvinr October 21 2007, 21:48:30 UTC

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Wasn't that the show about a bumbling incompetent who mangled the English language and everything he touched fell apart? But they've already done a US remake of that! Wasn't the Michael Crawford part taken by an actor called George W. Bush? I think his show's running on Fox News every night. And, yes, it sucks even worse. Way worse.

catvincent October 21 2007, 22:33:38 UTC

OOh-er, a bit political! Mind you, another parallel is that he survived everything that should have taken him out...

astvinr October 21 2007, 23:04:41 UTC

OOh-er, a bit political!
Well, joking aside, I really do think that a US remake would be attacked as a 'liberal' satire by right wingers who didn't know the original. That and the US Catholics who would feel they were being slighted by a show about some Mothers who Do Ave M(aria).