Now I’m not saying that Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto off Torchwood) as Dr Watson, Ben Syder as Sherlock Holmes, and Dominic Keating from Enterprise and Desmond’s in a copper suit as some kind of villain, all against a backdrop of dinosaurs in London, is the worst idea in the world.
But…
…well would you? Watch it, I mean?
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Imagine you have a hit BBC sitcom and the US want to adapt it. In the UK, it’s Ian McKellen or Derek Jacobi who stars. In the US, it’s… Matt LeBlanc. Ruined huh?
Well that’s what happening with the BBC’s/Showtime’s Episodes. Except this whole process is the comedy, not the TV show. Matt LeBlanc plays Matt LeBlanc in the show, except for the show within the show, he has to audition to play Matt LeBlanc. Confusing, huh? Then watch this:
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Here’s a little vid of the BBC’s showing the highlights of their current and forthcoming drama output. Full details after the jump, but there’s Idris Elba in Luther, Billie Piper in A Passionate Woman, Christopher Eccleston in Lennon Naked, Douglas Henshall in The Silence, Alan Bleasdale’s The Sinking of the Laconia, as well as bits from Ashes to Ashes, Doctor Who (nothing new), Being Human, Survivors and The Deep.
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In the US: Thursdays, 10pm, FX. Starts January 14th, 2010
Who doesn’t want to be a spy? Imagine the glamour, the excitement, the women/men you’d meet.
Of course, reality is going to be a whole lot different. It’s all going to be screwed-up people stuck in relatively normal workplaces, quibbling about expense accounts – at gunpoint.
That, at least, is the premise of FX’s new half-hour animated comedy Archer, which features the daring exploits of Sterling Archer, ace superspy for top secret organisation ISIS.
What kind of man is Sterling Archer? Well, imagine James Bond. Imagine his lifestyle, all the glamour, the excitement, the women – then imagine that instead of James Bond, you have an American, trust fund-holding, egotistical, self-centred, empty-headed, misogynistic jock douchebag with mummy issues.
It’s brilliant.
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