Skins US version - Promo released

Looks AWFUL

And I wasn't expecting it to be a carbon copy - I thought they would take character types and storylines as inspiration but not clone everything right down to the last damn detail and just basically refilm the show with American actors.

Very dull and uninspired - and I was intrigued originally and willing to give it a chance. But I'll be sticking with the UK version, which I've recently started watching and am pretty into.
 
A lot of them are quite good, and the US version of The Office is better than the UK original -- the latter an opinion not everybody holRAB, certainly, but many of the people who agree with me about the US Office are British.

Anyway, I think it is indisputable that much of the objection to American remakes of UK series boils down to wounded national pride: "Oh, our version isn't good enough for you lot, is it?":mad: (Of course in reality a remake is all about being practical from a business standpoint and the remake wouldn't happen at all if the original wasn't admired.) And nevermind that the UK re-makes US series too (Law & Order: UK), just not as often (naturally, given the difference in size between the two TV industries).
 
Though I didn't particularly object to either of these being remade, I have objected to others in the past and it's not that at all, (or at least it's not that for me). It's more sense of pride in the original as a fan, wanting it to be seen in it's intended form and not wanting it to be lost in translation and dent the image of the original. Brit's really don't do national pride, it's seen as a dirty thing BNP members do, if there's one thing that unites Brits more than complaining about the weather, it's complaining about Britain.
 
What was the point when all they've done is copy the UK characters? I thought they were going for 'Skins US' not US actors read lines in the style of UK characters.

I don't see the point if they aren't going to put their own spin on it. Lazy.
 
Both are shit, so its neither here nor there. I don't care if Americans show British versions or not, however the fact remains that all American remake are awful.

Law and Order UK is also awful, cheap tat tv. As if we don't have enough dull crime dramas kicking around.

Get a new idea.
 
If any other English speaking country did a re-make of a British show poorly, they would be getting the same stick as the US. It's just that it's only the US who seem want to re-make our shows, Americanize it rather than just show the original.

I don't think it comes down to superiority complex, if the re-make is good, they'd be no complaints i.e. The office US.

Some of the shows they try to re-make have no culture equivalent in the US and even if they do US producers dumb it down.
Also through the US re-makes, UK culture and humour is lost which essentially is the big part of the reason why most of the US re-makes fail to succeed.
 
You have got to be kidding me. What a joke. Looking at the youtube comments too you can see how many people are ticked off.

They're doing a US version of Being Human too.
 
That there is a big difference between a fact and an opinion is not something requiring an argument. It is a fact itself. And one emoticon in a post, which conveyed the emotion I wished to convey, is not overuse. Now try this emoticon out for size::rolleyes:
 
WTF?! It looks like an exact replica of the English version but with a black girl playing Cassie. This is Gus Van Sant's Psycho BAD.

Why don't they just...air the original?!
 
We shouldn't be getting knarked off, it's not for us Brits its for MTV American audience. Of course it's going to look hideous and not seem right considering we were so use to the British version.
 
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