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It's funny because that show was super popular in France, via subtitles.
Even this bit? [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqnFnWSYzaQ
these damn brits!
The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]
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It really was. Here is the first episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-uSD9Ci9Zc
You either do single-cam and a laugh track, or a multi-cam with no laugh track. They made the poor choice of mixing the two.
I'm sorry, what? Single-camera, no laugh track has been an extremely common format for sitcoms for the last twenty years.
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No, that's not what I saw. Firstly, not all Sky ad slots were placeholders; and secondly, "Brenda" (damn, what's that from?) popped her clogs ages ago. The wall-to-wall BBC propaganda ended three days ago. TV presenters are no longer wearing black suits and ties. Newspapers no longer carry a dozen grovelling headlines on the same subject.
Not a reader of Private Eye then? This should help on the Brenda question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_and_organisatio... You may enjoy Private Eye, worth buying a trial copy.
Thanks. I think I last bought a copy of Private Eye about 50 years ago; Ingrams was the editor, and Paul Foot was still writing for them. I loved the schoolboy gags (I was a schoolboy), but they put out some very serious content that the MSM wouldn't touch.
The image was that the PE journalists basically spent their working day hanging out in Fleet Street bars, shooting the breeze with journos from mainstream papers, and collecting gossip. I have no idea how accurate that picture is.
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Part of it is simply different television formats. The Office UK specifically aired on BBC One without commercials which meant that it had to be cut down to fit on a major network's timeslot of 20-24 min. Shows like that typically have to go to special TV stations like PBS or BBC America in order to get a commercial-free timeslot or (in BBC America's case) finagled into a less common time slot with weird commercial b…
> And then there's the larger issue of a lot of British TV actors simply not having the recognizability of their American counterparts which is a major selling point Just a note that I don't think any of the actors in the original version of The Office were recognizable in the UK before it aired. So either it is more important in the US to have a big name attached, or TV execs at least believe so, or they remake it f…
The stakes are high for primetime network television in general in the US. Only about 20% of new shows are renewed for a second season, and showrunners desperately want a multi-season TV show to put on their CV.
To add more perspective - of the projects a network picks up in a given year, only about 18% will go on to produce a pilot that same year. And usually if a pilot isn't greenlit for a project in its first year, it's effectively dead. So the fact that the IT Crowd (US) got a pilot at all is already remarkable.
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#275Too bad they didn't make it to episode 2. I feel like "they're not just THE emergency services, they're YOUR emergency services" is one of the most British things I can imagine. (I say that as an American, though, so I don't really know what I'm talking about.) The IT Crowd always impressed me with their set design. I was working as "IT" at the time, and our office was nearly identical to the one in Season 1. We had…
Wen didn't have liquid nitrogen, but a overnight in a freezer worked too. I just did that last year for a friend's external drive.
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I can't watch Red Dwarf any more. It has aged terribly. The overacting (eg The Cat), the canned laughter to fit the TV format... I think I was just "meh" about it until I listened to the audiobook read by Chris Barrie (the actor who played Rimmer). I didn't even want to listen to it but my wife insisted that I'd love it. I did. In contrast to the TV series, the book is fresh, genuinely funny and surprisingly astute.…
Seasons 1-6 were in front of a live audience.
Whatever. The effect is horrible. And plenty of times live audiences are worse than the ones that come out of a can. Watch the "WAT" video twice, and you'll know what I'm talking about... That one person who has to laugh fast and loud to let everybody know "I GOT THE JOKE BETTER THAN YOU DID". It gets in the way of the viewer engaging with the show.
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#277It's really hard for me to imagine any alternate scenario where the IT crowd could be improved upon. It was kind of a perfect storm - Richard Ayoade during the only time he ever was or ever will be likable or funny, Christopher Morris back when was one of the funniest people on earth, Matt Berry just being absolutely brilliant and completely stealing the show, the cultural "geek" zeitgest of the time, etc etc. It's n…
You sort of forgot Jen existed there. I'd say she was a core part of the show and pretty fantastic too.
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#278Maybe it says something about my maturity level, but I miss Code Monkeys... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UFYpnE_Ob0
So do I. I liked both shows, very different though.
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For those coming into this discussion late with no personal exposure to American television, the OP's use of "often" is just them burning some steam off. This is not a serious thing that happens in any kind of high percentage of content. I can't think of any content where it does happen and would be surprised if any examples created in the last 20 years could be found.
It just happened with a movie in the last year. An Asian person speaking English with a Mandarin accent was subtitled. If I could remember the name I'd link it to you. Maybe you just aren't watching content with diverse casts that speak with accents.
Convenient that you don't have any examples of your point whatsoever and just lean into a thinly veiled insult to try and cover that up. The point stands, this content is by no means ubiquitous or even remotely close to frequent enough for your use of 'often' to be correct with even a charitable interpretation.
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Got a clip? This feels like you being oblivious that he's pretending...
This is a mix including that moment in the Golden Globes. It does not look like pretending to me, but who knows. (around 0:55)
I forgot the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFbTUbY-bcU