Spooks aka MI-5. Love this TV series, wonder how long before US copies it?
 

Spooks / MI-5. Love this TV series, wonder how long before US copies it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160904/


The US has been copying so many Brit show this last years.


Office
Wifred
Being Human
Men Behaving Badly
etc.

I never heard of, nor watched any of those shows other than the office. The UK version only ran for 14 episodes total. That's it. Oh, and by the way? Rick Gervaise brought the show to the US. Nobody copied anything.

Oh, and for shits and giggles I looked up some of the other shows in your list. Men Behaving Badly ran for one season in 1996-1997. Yeah, you guys are really spouting out some "copy" worth shows. :1orglaugh

I am not a Brit but Spooks has been running 10 seasons and is great

Strike Back -- actually, they made the second season as a US version.

Many successful British TV shows (particularly sitcoms and reality shows) have been remade for the American market. The amount of reworking varies with some shows (such as All in the Family) keeping the basic situation and then adding many original features while others have taken complete scripts verbatim (such as Amanda's).

There are relatively few examples of American shows remade for the British market (the majority of these being game shows), and the British television audience are very accepting of the American originals while being much less accepting of British remakes (see, for instance, the failure of Brighton Belles, the British remake of The Golden Girls). The US remakes have sometimes been imported back into the UK. By contrast, original British programmes are rarely seen on the major US networks and are usually broadcast only on the Public Broadcasting Service and on cable television, especially BBC America, with only a few purely British shows having gained mainstream popularity in the United States. This list includes a number of pilots not subsequently made into series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...evision_series

http://www.classicsitcoms.co.uk

Most popular shows in these markets get licensed to other markets and remade. They end up all over the world. Not sure why you are so naive to think others are "copying" them. Obviously The Office isn't being "copied" by the US when Ricky Gervais is the executive producer and one of the writers of the first season.

Love it, I watched 9 seasons over a month period. season 10 just started.

don't forget life on mars

Didn't that last about 2 episodes?

Gonna check that out, thanks

Wilfred is an Aussie show.

I'm a reading a book called "Spy Catcher" by Peter Wright, who was the Assistant Director of MI5. Forget James Bond - MI5 had no business being in the intelligence business in the 1950s and 1960s. MI5 was completely penetrated by the Russians, and more people in MI5 worked for the Russians than did for the British government.

However, I found "the thing" to be rather interesting. Basically a Russian youth group gave the US ambassador a large wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States - which he hung in his office. Although it was not powered in any way, it was possible to bounce a radio signal off of it - turning it into a microphone that could transmit voice. Neato.

Read about the US Embassy building in Moscow. They used local contractors to build it (for whatever reason) - but they ended up with something like 1500+ listening devices and ultimately had to build a new room on the roof for secure communication. It's still there and looks a little out of place.

LOL, thats so true. apparently it was so bad that Russian defectors often refused to go to Britain. There has even been long standing rumours that the govenment itself was infected in very high places.

the crappy american rip off yes

the original one completed the story line

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478942/

spooks has been running for years and years and years.
and there is a us version of men behaving badly? is it any good?

men behaving badly was like 7 series

The crappy American one actually had one more episode than the original in total.

It would have been better off on a cable network.

They have been, but they make it so much better.

really? the u.s. remakes of Steptoe and Son, Fawlty Towers, the Office, George and Mildred, Man About The House, One Foot in the Grave, Shameless, Spitting Image, Top Gear, ect ... were better? Come on you know they are not, you are just trolling.

Actually The Office both US/UK is the same dude Ricky Gervais, they made a US version tailored to American humor. Same people behind it.

The Amercian versions were not even close - don't buy into his trolling. The "new" version of Top Gear is (or was - I don't know if they're making anymore) completely unwatchable.

Canadian television in the seventies and eighties was full of great British comedies. Now its all generic American reality crap, and Canadian versions of generic American reality crap.

Even the BBC is a shitty rip-off of TLC & A&E most of the time. Except for a few shows - like Spooks, and Top Gear. And Gordon Ramsay is less of whingy little bitch on the BBC. Totally different guy on Fox.


Watching poor Richard Hammond hosting Total Wipeout is sad, though. I hope they paid him a lot.

Your right, but the Aussie one is better

Never saw it but has a good rating on IMDB.

Check it out, but be warned its like crack

The last ever episode of spooks was just shown on uk tv last night. shame they ended it. they ended waking the dead too this year which was another good bbc series.