American Shameless - General

This deeply disturbs and angers me, but what do you think? I wish Americans would leave our shows alone. I have no problem with American shows, but I know they would be terrible if ported into British versions. I just hope The Inbetweeners american version is a joke. [img]http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/1888/shamelesstvshow.png[/img] [media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2nAnpNouEM[/url] [/media] [quote] Meet the fabulously dysfunctional Gallagher family. Dad's a drunk, Mom split long ago, eldest daughter Fiona tries to hold the family together. Eldest son Philip (Lip) trades his physics tutoring skills for sexual favors from neighborhood girls. Middle son Ian is gay. Youngest daughter Debbie is stealing money from her UNICEF collection. Ten-year-old Carl is a budding sociopath and an arsonist, and toddler Liam is - well, he might actually be black, but nobody has a clue how. [/quote] This Frank Gallagher is lame.

If they changed the name of the show and the names of the characters I'd be ok with this.

To be fair to the trailer, at least. It does aim to be faithful to the English version, the scenarios seem to be the same, the sets looked similar. Kash's shop for example. That being said, the Americans make it wrong, William H Macy is a good actor, but he's trying to copy Frank too much, and failing at it badly. It might be ok, but Shameless to me is one of those programmes Americans can't do right but it's so english. Not fake english where everyone speaks like the queen, it's like genuine english people. The English Shameless is a shell of what it used to be now though too.

Never actually watched Shameless so don't really care, but I still don't understand why Americans would want to watch our shitty shows.

This is rubbish, why don't Americans think of their own shows instead of just copying ours

American Shameless? hahaha are they serious?

Why do they even fucking bother. Are Americans really that against foreign shows?

It won't be as good as the original.

[QUOTE=myalt22;27347555]I just hope The Inbetweeners american version is a joke.[/QUOTE] If they do make a series it just won't work, why not just air the original series?

[QUOTE=Arsonist;27347882]This is rubbish, why don't Americans think of their own shows instead of just copying ours[/QUOTE] Our Office was better.

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;27348654]Our Office was better.[/QUOTE] Hell no. though, I disliked both of them. But then I do greatly dislike Ricky Gervais.

I hate shameless, so I'm utterly indifferent to this. Could be better, could be worse than our version, but I won't be watching it anyway.

Holy fuck America, leave our shows alone, you are usually horrible at the type of comedy/ drama our shows use. I haven't actually seen a decent US adaptation of a British show that stayed faithful to the original.

At first i read "American Shemales". :frown:

This will suck compared to the Original. [editline]11th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=nVidia;27353730]At first i read "American Shemales". :frown:[/QUOTE] And then you clicked the thread.

[QUOTE=nVidia;27353730]At first i read "American Shemales". :frown:[/QUOTE] I'm sure it will have that too.

[QUOTE=hexpunK;27353715]Holy fuck America, leave our shows alone, you are usually horrible at the type of comedy/ drama our shows use. I haven't actually seen a decent US adaptation of a British show that stayed faithful to the original.[/QUOTE] Our Office was better.

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;27354092]Our Office was better.[/QUOTE] Never enjoyed either myself :v: But US Office seemed more light hearted than ours. Plus I don't really enjoy Gervais much.

the only stolen american show that was decent was Whose Line Is It Anyway?

what the fuck seriously why would anybody think that this was a good idea

[QUOTE=Arsonist;27347882]This is rubbish, why don't Americans think of their own shows instead of just copying ours[/QUOTE] Are you serious? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. You don't have to watch it and you probably never will since its an American show. The English copy our shows too.

[QUOTE=Mr. Sun;27354802]Are you serious? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. You don't have to watch it and you probably never will since its an American show. The English copy our shows too.[/QUOTE] Name five.

Skins USA looks like a fucking carbon copy of the British counterpart anyway.

This isn't flattery, it's "We're out of ideas, lets make a carbon copy of another show that did good and make a shitload of money off an idea somebody else already did!"

I don't get it. And I'm American. Coincidence? :smug:

Holy shit, is that William H. Macy? Cool. Well from the trailer I can tell that everyone's way more attractive than in the british version, and the accents aren't as annoying. It is, however, coying a show firmly rooted in British culture, putting a bunch of Americans in it would just be weird.

As an American I can say that I still don't get why we remake everything. I remember seeing this on a plane: [img_thumb]http://image.buzzintown.com/files/movie/upload_10000/upload_original/233535-death-at-a-funeral.jpg[/img_thumb] It was pretty decent for a movie you watch on a plane. Three years later I'm watching TV and I see this: [img_thumb]http://www.oskaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Death_at_a_Funeral.jpg[/img_thumb] I was insanely confused. It's literally the exact same movie except with more American actors (Hell, even the midget is played by the same actor).

I saw that same poster the other day and thought I was losing my mind because the only version I (thought I) recalled was the English one. That being said, in Australia we have Kath & Kim. America (n network) thought they could have their own version of Kath & Kim, instead they just decided to shit all over them (including Sharon). No doubt this will be the same sort of situation, imitation may be the finest form of flattery but I don't know about you, I don't like seeing shows I appreciate being covered in faeces for no reason. It just doesn't sit well with me.

[QUOTE=ElectronicG19;27354989]Name five.[/QUOTE] I may be wrong, but they created their own version of American Idol. They also tried (and failed) to copy That 70's Show. [editline]12th January 2011[/editline] Also I don't understand why we remake shows. It's kinda a shame sometimes. The original brit version of Top Gear is amazing and I don't ever get to see it.

I think Shameless was one of those quintessentially British concepts. Sure you could do an American version, but I don't think it'll capture the same sense of Northern Deprivation.