Skavau@piefed.socialM to Television@piefed.socialEnglish · 6 days agoWhat TV series bungled a great concept that you'd like to see tried again?message-squaremessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up178arrow-down1message-squareWhat TV series bungled a great concept that you'd like to see tried again?Skavau@piefed.socialM to Television@piefed.socialEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square119fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareburntbacon@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days agoWas that the one with the supernatural roommates? What went wrong with it? I loved the show for as long as I watched it.
minus-squareButteryMonkey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoI think the one you are thinking of is Being Human, and there’s both a US and a UK version of that.
minus-squareburntbacon@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoSounds right. It definitely wasn’t sentient robots.
minus-squareButteryMonkey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoIf you haven’t seen the UK version, I recommend it over the US version :) I like foreign tv though, fewer nonsense romance plots in general.
minus-squareburntbacon@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoOh, I didn’t even watch the american version. Like the office (and other shows) showed, americans just take something, dumb it down, make it bad, and then call it the height of comedy.
minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoBritish sentient robots. I thought it was quite good.
minus-squareSaraTonin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoWas there a US version? Or did they rename it in the US? Or are we thinking about different things? Gemma Chan as the lead robot?
minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 days agoThis is the ahow: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4122068 There was an original Swedish show I think.
minus-squareSaraTonin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoYeah that’s the one. They must have renamed it in the US
Was that the one with the supernatural roommates? What went wrong with it? I loved the show for as long as I watched it.
I think the one you are thinking of is Being Human, and there’s both a US and a UK version of that.
Sounds right. It definitely wasn’t sentient robots.
If you haven’t seen the UK version, I recommend it over the US version :) I like foreign tv though, fewer nonsense romance plots in general.
Oh, I didn’t even watch the american version. Like the office (and other shows) showed, americans just take something, dumb it down, make it bad, and then call it the height of comedy.
British sentient robots. I thought it was quite good.
Was there a US version? Or did they rename it in the US? Or are we thinking about different things? Gemma Chan as the lead robot?
This is the ahow: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4122068
There was an original Swedish show I think.
Yeah that’s the one. They must have renamed it in the US