Good sitcoms are very rare.
Good remakes also.
I'd just rather not see them fail. Call me a pessimist.
So your argument isn't that it shouldn't be made because the original shouldn't be touched, but that it's likely to be good and it would bum you out for it to be canceled, which (I'll admit) is highly likely.
That kinda-sorta makes sense.
Actually, I was going on the premise that they'd fail to make it *any* good at all.
I agree that it's a poor argument, so think of it more as an opinion. That definition fits my world a little better! lol
If they made an American version, I'd watch it. Yes, I would. 'Bad' or not.
Perhaps a better show to argue over whether or not a remake should be done is
The Prisoner.Any remake brings the concepts in general to a wider audience... and some of that audience is likely to learn about the original.
So, in that sense I don't mind remakes.
I'm not against them, you see.
With The IT Crowd, I could easily imagine the US producers going for 'the nerd genre', which is specifically *not* what the UK production goes for (and the subtle reason for its success, IMO).
"US productions lack subtlety" is a generalization I'm game to make.
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