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Bye Bye Coupling as well!

  • 15-10-2003 7:51pm
    #1
    Go Figure!
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    I see the American remake of the cult British TV show Coupling has become the secound major show of the new American television season after Boomtown to be shafted from its prime slot after just a few weeks due to poor ratings. Does any else agree that the television industry in the states is ridiculously competitive and new shows aren't given near enough time to find their feet and develop their audience? I would hate to think that the market here and in Britain would go this way but I suspect that it already is. Click on to this link to find more on this story.

    http://www.media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1063537,00.html


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  • #2
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    the reason US coupling is being treated like this is because it is a stale and very boring version of the one shown over here. why cant they just make do with the British version which already shows on BBC America


  • #3
    Go Figure!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭Go Figure!


    Sorry that link actually doesn't work, just go through www.mediaguardian.co.uk and you'll get the story. Mossy Monk I think you're missing my main point.


  • #4
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    ok, the reason being that they bomb in the ratings and thus cost the US networks an awful lot of advertising money


  • #5
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Originally posted by Go Figure!
    Does any else agree that the television industry in the states is ridiculously competitive and new shows aren't given near enough time to find their feet and develop their audience?
    Yeah, but it's always been that way. RTE had a habit of buying series that had been cancelled in the US after a few shows in the late 80s and early 90s (I suppose they were cheap to buy). I found I quite liked a few of them and thought it was a shame they hadn't been given the chance.


  • #6
    aidan_dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭aidan_dunne


    Originally posted by Go Figure!
    I see the American remake of the cult British TV show Coupling.......

    Hang on. Wasn't Coupling supposed to be kind of like the British version of Friends or something? I read somewhere before that that was the intention when the show was being written anyway, or something like that. So why make an American remake of a British remake of what was an American show in the first place (if you follow what I'm saying! :D)? Makes no sense to me whatsoever. But, hey, that's the Yanks for you, I guess!


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  • #7
    DiscoStu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭DiscoStu


    Originally posted by aidan_dunne
    ....an American remake of a British remake of what was an American show in the first place.......

    the law of diminishing returns......


  • #8
    Go Figure!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭Go Figure!


    FYI Coupling was officially cancelled by NBC last friday.


  • #9
    superfly
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    could you imagine if Only fools and horses was cancelled after its first series if it was in America because it didnt really take off until its 3rd or 4th series


  • #10
    Go Figure!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭Go Figure!


    Yeah Only Fools and Horses got lucky in that it was given enough time to develop. If it was starting off today it would get nowhere near as much time to develop and probably wouldn't have made it. Thank God it did though!


  • #11
    Dustaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Dustaz


    Originally posted by aidan_dunne
    Hang on. Wasn't Coupling supposed to be kind of like the British version of Friends or something

    Not really. Its more or less a biog of the writer and his wifes relationship. I think the success of friends helped it get made but the idea was kicking around for a while.


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  • #12
    Oswald Osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 537 ✭✭✭Oswald Osbourne


    Originally posted by aidan_dunne
    Hang on. Wasn't Coupling supposed to be kind of like the British version of Friends or something?

    I've seen a few eps of Coupling and if what you suggest is the case then it's clearly outreached it's inspiration and shown Friends up for the retarded and jaded rubbish that it is.

    Chandler : Could we .... BE ..... any more unfunny?


  • #13
    Oswald Osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 537 ✭✭✭Oswald Osbourne


    Originally posted by superfly
    could you imagine if Only fools and horses was cancelled after its first series if it was in America because it didnt really take off until its 3rd or 4th series

    And just look at Blackadder series 1 compared to 2,3,4! If that show had been produced in America I couldn't see it lasting past the first episode never mind the first series.


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