Meme of the Week: your favourite ‘TV transplant’

8 July 2009 Rob Buckley TMINE 2 Comments

No. Not that. Well, not unless you really want it to be, you sicko.

No, this week’s Meme of the Week is inspired by Frasier, Ashes to Ashes, After M*A*S*H, etc. You have a favourite TV character – or merely favourite TV show. You take that character or a character from the show and you transplant them to a new environment. That’s a ‘TV transplant’. So…

What’s your favourite TV transplant?

I’ve given you a couple already, but feel free to suggest your own: after all, TV is littered with plenty of spin-offs (K9 and Company, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Private Practice, Going Straight, Highlander: The Raven). But what’s your favourite?

For advanced students, what’s your least favourite, or perhaps you’d like to create your own: Frank Spencer on Batllestar Galactica? Neil Burnside on The Brittas Empire? Jack Bauer on Pushing Daisies? What do you fancy?

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.

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  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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