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There was a time when you couldn’t move on US TV for TV shows from the house of Glen A Larson. The Six Million Dollar Man, Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Magnum PI: all his. He did have a few failures, though: Automan, The Highwayman and Nightman were all his and they didn’t do too well.
His biggest failure was Manimal, which lasted all of eight episodes before being hacked to death. In the majority of Larson’s TV shows, there was an element of fantasy and Manimal probably had the biggest element of fantasy: the wealthy Jonathan Chase (Simon MacCorkindale, now on Holby City) is actually a shape-shifter who can turn himself into any animal of his choice, and uses this ability to help fight crime.
Usually very slowly. Cue the weird old title sequence.
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Liz Tigelaar, the creator/show-runner of Life Unexpected, gives an interview over here in which as well as confirming the low budget of the show, she explains:
However, it looks like today is Being Erica news day today. Tigelaar drops a strong hint that season three of Being Erica is a go since Erin Karpluk will only be available for the second half of season two of Life Unexpected at most because of filming conflicts (if there is a season two, of course). We’ll know the answer by the end of the week, apparently.
Meanwhile, Big Talk Productions is planning a UK remake of the show, swapping the title character’s therapist for an NHS worker and relocating the action from Toronto to Glasgow. What do you think? Good idea or just show the original on a better network than E4 and with more publicity?
UPDATE: TV.com has more information on the British remake. You don’t think they were cribbing from here, do you?
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