![]() ![]() ![]() There has already been some useful academic work written on U.S.-U.K. ![]() With much of the discussion of cross-cultural format adaptation focused upon the relative success stories such as The Office or Yo Soy Betty, La Fea, I would therefore like to consider what we learn from the failed pilots for American adaptations of British shows such as Spaced, Red Dwarf and The IT Crowd. As these examples would suggest, it is these failed pilots for American remakes of British television that I find particularly fascinating. Related to the interest in ‘what-if’ projects such as Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ill-fated adaptation of Dune, these unaired pilots provide a glimpse into an alternate reality in which Joel McHale plays Roy in The IT Crowd or Craig Bierko takes on the role of Lister in Red Dwarf. For my follow-up, I would like to turn my attention to a specific type of bootleg that is often shared by television fans - namely unaired pilots. In my previous column, I explored the private BitTorrent filesharing communities which share rare and unreleased media online. ![]()
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