See, if it had had anywhere close to the cracktastic glee of Deed (or Torchwood), I would've dealt with the awful plotting. But it was just a bit shit, and life's too short to waste on TV that's just a bit shit.
I'll just stick to Cold Case, I think. They're running a 'best of' selection on some channel at the moment which actually seems to have some of the best ones in it.
I think it could be done, but I suppose you'd have to be fairly gutsy to say, "Well, yes, I know this is one of the world's most successful franchise formats, but it ain't going to work here, for these reasons."
Do you really think it would be doable? I'm not sure. I think by the time you'd finish ripping out the parts of L&O which don't work in the UK, there'd be so little recognisably L&O left that L&O fans would be disappointed. And people who don't like L&O would still be avoiding it because of the name, so you'd be screwed both ways.
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Date: 2009-02-25 05:48 pm (UTC)I'll just stick to Cold Case, I think. They're running a 'best of' selection on some channel at the moment which actually seems to have some of the best ones in it.
I think it could be done, but I suppose you'd have to be fairly gutsy to say, "Well, yes, I know this is one of the world's most successful franchise formats, but it ain't going to work here, for these reasons."
Do you really think it would be doable? I'm not sure. I think by the time you'd finish ripping out the parts of L&O which don't work in the UK, there'd be so little recognisably L&O left that L&O fans would be disappointed. And people who don't like L&O would still be avoiding it because of the name, so you'd be screwed both ways.