According to Digital Spy NBC have bought the rights to Prime Suspect from ITV.
NBC to remake Prime Suspect?
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I thought there already was a US adaptation of that show. But I can't find any reference to one. Am I thinking of some other British crime drama with a female lead?
Damages wasn't a British show... was it?
I can't think of any, the first thing to spring to mind was Cracker though when I read the news.
No, I don't even know what Damages is, except that it's something recent. I'm thinking of something from at least a decade ago.
Okay, I found it. I was thinking of Under Suspicion, a 1994 CBS police drama starring Karen Sillas. It had a similar title and a similar theme, focusing on a lone female homicide detective contending with the sexism of her male colleagues. Apparently it was conceived as an imitation of Prime Suspect but wasn't actually an adaptation.
Okay, I found it. I was thinking of Under Suspicion, a 1994 CBS police drama starring Karen Sillas. It had a similar title and a similar theme, focusing on a lone female homicide detective contending with the sexism of her male colleagues. Apparently it was conceived as an imitation of Prime Suspect but wasn't actually an adaptation.
Makes sense to me.
It rings a bell, but I guess it can't have been successful because it didn't even come to mind until you named it.
I wish they wouldn't do a remake. I don't think anyone would be better than Helen Mirren.
I don't think they'd even have one US season if they put the entire run of the show together, would they? It's such a shame that they won't work round scheduling to all that sort of thing though.
What's interesting is that I somehow remembered the name "Karen Sillas" as being connected to the show I was thinking of and was able to find it through her IMDb page. Which is odd, since I never watched the show and I've rarely if ever seen Karen Sillas in anything. I think it's just that the name caught my attention because it's spelled "Sillas" and pronounced "Silas," and that stood out in my mind when I read articles about the show in the newspaper or saw promos for it on the air.
I thought that ITV and fox had done a deal to share each others shows
I remember reading it a while ago and feeling sorry for fox
Ugh yeah I saw that. If you're gonna steal ideas, why not something a bit more original than YET ANOTHER FRAKKING COP SHOW!!!
I am SO SICK of the way cop shows are taking over everything. It's getting so they're worse than reality TV. I'm going to refuse to watch this remake simply because I refuse to watch any cop show on general principle (except for Dexter which really isn't a cop show).
And PBS already shows Prime Suspect, so why remake something that everyone already has access to?
I am SO SICK of the way cop shows are taking over everything. It's getting so they're worse than reality TV. I'm going to refuse to watch this remake simply because I refuse to watch any cop show on general principle (except for Dexter which really isn't a cop show).
And PBS already shows Prime Suspect, so why remake something that everyone already has access to?
Legal drama. Had a great first season, but I got bored midway thru S2.
PBS shows Prime Suspect.
Mirren finished her run on the British version, so I don't see anything wrong with a remake. Not that I'll make an effort to see it. Without a clever twist (i.e the hard realism and multiple perspectives of The Wire, or the strong yet atypical central figure of Dexter) the cop genre is so used up on American television, that I don't see the point of anything new in the field. Except, of course, the obvious one. Cop shows sell well to audiences. So we're saddled with more Law & Order (seeing Munch stuck on SVU just fills me with sadness over his days on Homicide: Life on the Street), etc. Yawn.
Oh, dear God, no.
Prime Suspect, when it started, was a gritty, intelligent, suspenseful, dark (sometimes downright depressing) police drama. It ran it's course and wound down somewhat quietly.
If NBC tries to take this over, I shudder to think of the results. They'll probably do the same half-assed kind of job they did when they tried to "make-over" Cracker for US TV. It was horrendous.
Prime Suspect, when it started, was a gritty, intelligent, suspenseful, dark (sometimes downright depressing) police drama. It ran it's course and wound down somewhat quietly.
If NBC tries to take this over, I shudder to think of the results. They'll probably do the same half-assed kind of job they did when they tried to "make-over" Cracker for US TV. It was horrendous.
I meant if networks are interested in these shows I think it's a shame that they won't just work out the scheduling problems and show the original, rather than do a poor job of remaking it.
Well, the British channels have been remaking American shows recently (L&O for example) but the US networks have made a few remakes of our shows over the years; some successful (The Office, Eleventh Hour) and others not.
I think an American version of Primeval would do rather well, since they would have a bigger budget and thereby better SFX. A US version of The Fixer would probably be superb if done even half as well as the UK version.
The US already have Cold Case so a Waking the Dead series is probably dead in the water, but New Tricks might work well with a good cast.
I think an American version of Primeval would do rather well, since they would have a bigger budget and thereby better SFX. A US version of The Fixer would probably be superb if done even half as well as the UK version.
The US already have Cold Case so a Waking the Dead series is probably dead in the water, but New Tricks might work well with a good cast.
^There may be a North American Primeval in the works, possibly a spin off, as well as a movie. But I think it's unlikely they'll come to pass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_television_series_based_on_British_television_series
I think the last thing Primeval needs is more reliance on FX. They did quite a good job in that regard. It was the plot, characters, and credibility that fell apart in the third season in favor of empty spectacle and action.
It's interesting to note that you prefer to remake our reality shows and comedy series more than dramas.
I stopped watching after season one because I thought it was going down the toilet.
