BBC has confirmed that a pilot for a UK remake of Everybody Loves Raymond will be shot for BBC One later this month. British comic actor-writer Lee Mack is penning the pilot for The Smiths and will star alongside The Office‘s Catherine Tate.
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WTF? I don't really know how to react, because:
ReplyDelete1. Usually it's the other way around (brit series being remade for the US audience);
2. Why so many years later?
3. Not sure the show can really work without the actual Ray Romano.
Good luck to them, I guess.
They've remade the show in other countries...I think in Russia.
ReplyDeleteAfter I saw the russian TBBT "remake" I was pretty much freaked out... I'm just trying to picture the russian version of Everybody Loves Raymond and it doesn't look pretty in my imagination
ReplyDeleteOh my God, Catherine Tate! I don't care what show is being remade... and Everybody Loves Raymond was bad, Ray Romano is a bad comedian for me at least, but I'll watch whatever Catherine Tate's in, so...
ReplyDeleteWell.. US television has more networks, so we get more adaptations, but I wouldn't say it's 'usually the other way around'. That 70's Show and Law & Order were remade in the UK without even writing original scripts (although Law & Order eventually did, IIRC).
ReplyDeleteAs for the show, I don't think you need to re-do the characters and their personalities exactly the same. The concept, a couple moving next door to the husbands over-bearing parents and man-child brother, would probably be better served by new personalities.
Don't think I'll bother.
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