Stick The Knife In Deeper
In 1995, there was this show called "High Society" that starred Jean Smart and Mary McDonnell as a couple of rich Manhattan socialites. I was excited for this crap because it was unofficially called the American "Absolutely Fabulous." There was nothing fabulous about it. It was like AbFab on life support. Awful. Obviously, the dumb fucks in Hollywood didn't learn from "High Society's" failure, because they are planning another American version of AbFab. Aim for the wastebasket when you barf.
Variety reports that Fox is putting together a redo of the show about two drunk 40-something bitches. Jennifer Saunders will executive produce. The American version will transplant Edie, Patsy and company from London to Los Angeles. And no, Saunders and Lumley will not be reprising their roles.
Okay, I'm not going to completely bust a diarrhea bomb on this idea, because Jennifer Saunders is involved. However, I just don't see how this shit can work on FOX. They won't be allowed to chain smoke or drug it up all night. So what's the point? You know they are going to cast Christine Baranski and Megan Mullally. Ugh.
And I'm sure the American version of "Nighty Night" isn't far off. Oh, wait. I just googled and it's in the works...... DEATH!
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Oh my eff. What will the network fascists do with Jill's attempted seduction of Kath's kids? I was wondering when I should eat pop rocks and cola... This is that sad moment.
Goodbye cruel world.
American censorship needs to go. That's why we all watched it on BBC!
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I hate Hollywoods lack of imagination and the stupid morons that run it. I sat with many of them and they are such assfaces.. when they arent texting the pa's they are fucking on set. The last producer on a show I was on was fucking the stars double... and taking her to hotels and dinners on the films budget...while I couldnt get a damn runner to get my shit to the lab...and this dick would be texting all through dailies and making NOBU dinner plans and then make assinine comments that were completely stupid and would require tons of irrelevant work..just to make his dick feel important on set. UGH fuck you HOLLYWOOD
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no fuckers just no... stop. just stop.
AbFAB is the one and only period...remember when Rosanne was gonna do it? Anyhow...Patsy lives forever....
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The war isn't working.
Great. One more instance of American television fucking up perfectly good British shows.
Is originality dead?
Fuck.
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Oh HELL no...to the toilet with you. I saw the pathetic last attept to 'recreate' Ab Fab's genius. Well, when I say 'saw', I mean I watched my TV vomit. And Nighty Night too????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Nighty Night? Are they kidding? There is no way the brilliance of Julia Davis will pass the censors in the US...black comedy at its blackest, roll on Ms D!
Oddly enough I'm watching Joanna Lumley on Graham Norton right now.
I'm sure it will be another one of Fox's 2 episode shows. No one will watch this. If you're in need of an AbFab fix just watch BBCAmerica or pop in the DVD (or download it, yes I'm a cheap ass).
This is unacceptable.
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They should just film the two usually drunk & partying 40-something bitches that reside near the Evil One...It would make a great reality show because these two are a pair of constantly bickering bollocks (like 2 wet cats in a box) who stroll around the neighborhood with cocktails in hand at noon on a Monday...The Overlord hides...Afraid...Be very afraid!
DO NOT F*CK WITH THE CLASSICS!
leave abfab alone...they will never be able to capture the magic on american tv...
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To me that looks like Mira Furlan
Coupling was basically Friends, though, with a bit of Sex in the City.
The Office gave me some hope, but I'm not expecting anything from this one. All the raunchy jokes will be watered down. That was okay for The Office, because the humor was pretty tame, but not for AbFab.
Although I was watching an episode of the UK Office that I hadn't seen in a while and I was amazed at what they could get away with in a "typical workplace." In America. there would be lawsuits left and right.
Oh HELL no! Why does everything have to be set in LA?
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what the fuck!?!?!?
oh god no!!!!
this show is a friken classic for gods sake!
you suck fox >=[
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Submitted by Athina on October 7, 2008 - 2:32pm.
No, no, no! This simply will not work. AbFab was so successful, not because of the plot lines or premise, but because Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders were PURE MAGIC on the screen together.
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Precisely, you cut l'il monkey.
Shows like these are based on characters that came to life in action. These are going to be characters that have developed over years of work shopping and presenting. There weren't writers that sat down and said - Ok, here's the idea. It came about organically. You just can't go messing with that or the soul of it gets lost. And it just looks silly (and not in a good way).
I betcha Jennifer was like: Sure - they can buy it - I could use the cash. Good luck to them pulling it off heheh.
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I just got here and have not read the comments, but if they want the show in America, JUST SHOW THE DAMN SHOW. WE ARE NOT THAT DUMB, WE CAN GET THE HUMOR OR THE DRAMA, thats why we watched the original in 1997.
We also watched Life on Mars, Doctor Who, Torchwood, you name it.
No, no, sweetie darlings!!! This cannot be allowed. Abort, abort, abort!
The woman on the left is Jennifer Saunders, the brilliant mind behind AbFab.
American remakes of British TV shows usually suck. One of the exceptions was All in the Family.
Sweetie darling, you know they are going to bollocks it all up!
Who's the woman on the left in that pic? The not blond
For Hollywood execs please stop butchering the British comedy classics. We Americans cannot pull them off... I give you Men Behaving Badly and The Office as prime examples.
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No. I will not watch it.
Im sure the new version will be as successful as the American version of Coupling
Ab Fab is my shit. I tried to model my life after Patsy and Edie and got arrested.
HBO or Showtime would be hell better.
Network TV is geared towards middle america, Ab Fab doesn't translate to Six pack Joe.
It's probably gonna suck. Sad.
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if anything... those bitches should be from new york
Submitted by snowpiece on October 7, 2008 - 1:39pm.
have you guys ever seen French and Saunders? also awesome
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Cannot wait for Will Ferrell in 'Fawlty Towers'
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Really, wasn't "Cybill" from the mid-'90s a stateside take on "AbFab?" All the elements were there: the hapless leading lady in search of herself with a boozy and bitter gal pal in tow, the put-upon daughter(s), the parade of ex-husbands always coming out of the woodwork, the life of wretched excess.
Why Fox continues to spearhead bawdy programs that it will ultimately just give the axe to once the Bible Belt starts complaining is beyond me.
No, no, no! This simply will not work. AbFab was so successful, not because of the plot lines or premise, but because Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders were PURE MAGIC on the screen together. Not to mention, their accents, the clothing, the originality of EVERY aspect of that show was off the charts. Please, leave it alone.
Submitted by Anonymous101 on October 7, 2008 - 1:54pm.
Baranski and Mullally have already played drunks (on Cybill and Will and Grace, respectively) and were both very good. But they are way too good for this sh!t and shouldn't be typecast. They deserve new material . . . ugh!!
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HELLL NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
..ugh! sacrilege, depressing...
Submitted by madam s. on October 7, 2008 - 2:17pm.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I don't give a shit if Jennifer Saunders is involved... this pisses me off. It will be watered down, dumbed down, and catered to the lowest common denominator of the U.S. sense of humor.
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With the exception of The Office, when are the slow American TV show executives gonna figure out that what is funny across the pond generally isn't that funny to us here in the U.S.?! Doesn't matter if you re-make, Americanize, integrate it...whatever. Russell Brand hosting the VMAs this year should have been a big indication of that.....anyways, as long as they don't go butchering Are You Being Served? (the lady with the purple hair is a hot piece)..it's all good.
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Ab Fab, Kath n Kim, Nighty Night?? Seriously, enough is enough. Leave it alone!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I don't give a shit if Jennifer Saunders is involved... this pisses me off. It will be watered down, dumbed down, and catered to the lowest common denominator of the U.S. sense of humor.
I mean, Ricky Gervais is involved with the U.S. version of The Office and it is lame and just another inane sitcom, whereas the original British version is some of the best television to ever come out in the history of the world.
Just NO!
I looked up to AbFab. They are my role models on how to live and still have a fabulous life. **crys**
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I consider it a sign of class and elegance when a lady DOESN'T draw attention to her snatchal region.
Baranski and Mullally have already played drunks (on Cybill and Will and Grace, respectively) and were both very good. But they are way too good for this sh!t and shouldn't be typecast. They deserve new material . . . ugh!!
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She's running for US President!!!
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Fortunately it will be on Fox, a network that cancels shows after 3 weeks, so we won't have this turd stinking up the place for very long. No U.S. network would get away with 1/4 of the things that the UK version did which will make it unwatchable. Jennifer Saunders probably got into it for the money since Fox was probably going to do some crappy version of it whether she signed on or not.
WHY WHY WHY - don't American television producers have ANY original ideas. They butcher, I repeat BUTCHER these shows. Recently I watched Kath and Kim, that was a f*cking disaster. Between censorship and the overly-politically-correctness of standard networks, it will suck hard!!
OH HELL NO. NOt my abfab, please not my abfab!!! HOw dare they!! Is nothing SACRED anymore!?!?
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knife directly in my heart!!
I am in despair!
Nothing can come close to the original
NOOOOOO! Nothing can touch the original AbFab, even if Jennifer Saunders is involved. When is Hollywood going to realize that remakes of shows never fucking work??!!
True story: My husband insisted, I mean INSISTED, that I buy this pair of Christian Lacroix shoes when we were in Vegas for the sole purpose of being able to say, "They're bloody LaCroix, Daahhling". We LOVED that show and still covet our 4 season boxed set dvd collection.
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I'm not going to completely bust a diarrhea bomb on this idea, because Jennifer Saunders is involved.
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That pisses me off. Ya know damn well Jennifer is not gonna have creative license to create anything that even compares to AbFab.
Sell out.
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LOL To be fair EVERY telenovela is one giant overacted Desperate Housewives episode.
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