For the past two years I have looked forward to watching the television show Coupling whenever I had access to the BBC. When digital cable became available in my area, I signed up, paying upwards of $80.00 a month so I can have access every Friday night to BBC America's airing of the most brilliant television series since" Sports Night." (If you saw the episode of this short lived Sports Night when, I believe his name was Josh, confused the terms "secular" and "non secular" in front of Hillary Clinton, you experienced one of the funniest non slapstick jokes ever on television).
To my horror, I just heard NBC has finished taping seven quickly made
episodes of COUPLING, a series for the US and Canadian market based on the
creative, funny and charming British show of the same name. In the US version, the six sexy single early thirty somethings live in Chicago, and their dating/working lives intertwine in hapless and predictable ways.
Now, if you want a technique for creating a train wreck, look at the
production team. The US version's secondary writer, Phoef Sutton, whose
Hollywood credits include writing for the last two seasons of "Cheers," the
awful Bob Newhart show "Bob" and the forgettable "Kristen," is also
(God help them) executive producing. To further destroy any hope of this show working, NBC Studios, the same people that bought us "Leap of Faith" and "The Michael Richards Show," are producing the American version. Oy Vey.
Remember what happened to The Weakest Link? NBC bought over everything they
could to try and make a go of this British game show on this side of the
pond. They failed. When is NBC going to learn, look for creative new
programming options and stop trying to carbon copy other shows. The current
rosters of NBC programming are shameless imitations of other ideas currently or recently on the air. And, we all know copying doesn’t make for compelling and interesting TV. I mean, how many “Law and Orders” is NBC running? I wiltelevision).
To my horror, I just heard NBC has finished taping seven quickly made
episodes of COUPLING, a series for the US and Canadian market based on the
creative, funny and charming British show of the same name. In the US version, the six sexy single early thirty somethings live in Chicago, and their dating/working lives intertwine in hapless and predictable ways.
Now, if you want a technique for creating a train wreck, look at the
production team. The US version's secondary writer, Phoef Sutton, whose
Hollywood credits include writing for the last two seasons of "Cheers," the
awful Bob Newhart show "Bob" and the forgettable "Kristen," is also
(God help them) executive producing. To further destroy any hope of this show working, NBC Studios, the same people that bought us "Leap of Faith" and "The Michael Richards Show," are producing the American version. Oy Vey.
Remember what happened to The Weakest Link? NBC bought over everything they
could to try and make a go of this British game show on this side of the
pond. They failed. When is NBC going to learn, look for creative new
programming options and stop trying to carbon copy other shows. The current
rosters of NBC programming are shameless imitations of other ideas currently or recently on the air. And, we all know copying doesn’t make for compelling and interesting TV. I mean, how many “Law and Orders” is NBC running? I wiltelevision).
To my horror, I just heard NBC has finished taping seven quickly made
episodes of COUPLING, a series for the US and Canadian market based on the
creative, funny and charming British show of the same name. In the US version, the six sexy single early thirty somethings live in Chicago, and their dating/working lives intertwine in hapless and predictable ways.
Now, if you want a technique for creating a train wreck, look at the
production team. The US version's secondary writer, Phoef Sutton, whose
Hollywood credits include writing for the last two seasons of "Cheers," the
awful Bob Newhart show "Bob" and the forgettable "Kristen," is also
(God help them) executive producing. To further destroy any hope of this show working, NBC Studios, the same people that bought us "Leap of Faith" and "The Michael Richards Show," are producing the American version. Oy Vey.
Remember what happened to The Weakest Link? NBC bought over everything they
could to try and make a go of this British game show on this side of the
pond. They failed. When is NBC going to learn, look for creative new
programming options and stop trying to carbon copy other shows. The current
rosters of NBC programming are shameless imitations of other ideas currently or recently on the air. And, we all know copying doesn’t make for compelling and interesting TV. I mean, how many “Law and Orders” is NBC running? I will cevision).
To my horror, I just heard NBC has finished taping seven quickly made
episodes of COUPLING, a series for the US and Canadian market based on the
creative, funny and charming British show of the same name. In the US version, the six sexy single early thirty somethings live in Chicago, and their dating/working lives intertwine in hapless and predictable ways.
Now, if you want a technique for creating a train wreck, look at the
production team. The US version's secondary writer, Phoef Sutton, whose
Hollywood credits include writing for the last two seasons of "Cheers," the
awful Bob Newhart show "Bob" and the forgettable "Kristen," is also
(God help them) executive producing. To further destroy any hope of this show working, NBC Studios, the same people that bought us "Leap of Faith" and "The Michael Richards Show," are producing the American version. Oy Vey.
Remember what happened to The Weakest Link? NBC bought over everything they
could to try and make a go of this British game show on this side of the
pond. They failed. When is NBC going to learn, look for creative new
programming options and stop trying to carbon copy other shows. The current
rosters of NBC programming are shameless imitations of other ideas currently or recently on the air. And, we all know copying doesn’t make for compelling and interesting TV. I mean, how many “Law and Orders” is NBC running? I will continue to watch the BBC version of Coupling, the US version has failure written all over it.
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