No, Sweetie Darling, No!
As some of you know, Fox is going to fuck with the legendary TV experience that is Absoultely Fabulous. Why, you ask? Because that's what we do in America. We take TV shows from other countries and try to find ways to get them canceled in record time. Although, Kath & Kim is still breathing and I'm not sure why. I'll have to ask Satan that during our weekly conference call.
Variety says Kristen Johnston is in talks to play Edina Monsoon in the pilot. Kristen was at a table read with Fox HBICs last Friday. Kathryn Hahn was also in the table read, but it's not known what role she helped butcher. I'm guessing Patsy?
You know who should play Edina and Patsy? Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley! And only them! Kristen Johnston is fine, but she's looking a little like a Manhattan tortured wife who eats pill instead of food. Well, maybe she will work then? NO! She won't. Nobody will. Okay, Rojo Caliente and Phoebe Price would, but they would never agree to murder such a beloved classic.
This is going to be like Absolutely Fabulous dipped in oatmeal with bits of broccoli sprinkled on top. Instead of doing mounds of coke, they are going to get really "zany" on too much Red Bull. Instead of trying to have an orgy and failing, they are going to be humiliated during a speed dating session. It's going to be absolutely rated G.
I just want to tell the American version of AbFab to "take a holiday, darling. South of France."
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Cheers America.
While you're shitting on our cult classics you can have Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served, Shooting Stars, Only Fools and Horses, The Good Life, Birds of A Feather, The Royle Family and Peep Show...
Seriously... did they not get enough shit for fucking up The Office.
You don't see us doing Cheers or Friends.
'nough said.
some things you don't touch...AbFab is one of those things...it will suck suck suck suck big time
THE HELL YOU SAY MK???????????? I will NEVER EVER watch this fuckerY! HOW? WHY? Abfab just can NOT be done any other way than exactly how it is. PISS SHIT FUCK DAMN MOTHER FUCKER COCK SUCKER
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That 3rd Rock from the sun was some funny shit though. That girl fucks the dude that plays Newman in Seinfeld.
Newportjoey-[slap]-that's from Saffy, but you beat me to the punchline! Ah, gawd. Some things are sacred and perfect and you DO NOT fuck with them. Knitting needles and atomic bombs--hell, I'll even volunteer to be strapped to prevent this blasphemy.
Great. They are going to fuck with my favorite show of all time. Yet another reason I don't watch TV!
Nooooooo. Please, please, please, please noooooo.
Is there any way to stop this shennanigans from happening? GOD. Add this to the list of brilliant foreign films and shows to be ruined by the puritanical narrow minded AMerican/Hollywood censors.
Three men and a cradle DESTROYED and turned into that crappy sappy Ted Danson movie. HELLO - the drugs were an integal part of the plot
La Cauge Aux Folles turned uber boring by Robin Williams.
Priscilla Queen of the Desert into To Wong Foo
Kath and Kim
Don't any of those people in Hollywood have an original idea? Ever?
It's going to be absolutely rated G.
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TOTALLY and thats why its gonna suck. AbFab needs chain smoking, child abusing, drunken drug using fashion whores. The US networks will pour disney flavored sugar all over it :(
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Submitted by Tigerlilly on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 10:41pm.
In order to enjoy Waffle House, you need to be drunk off your ass, then and only then, is it the food of the Gods. In order to enjoy IHOP, you must have no standards whatsoever, drunk or sober...Both places are Roach Motels, but there is no surface that is not SLIGHTLY sticky at an IHOP...It is a foul place and I would not even go there on acid....
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The drunken mess is easily done so one tick so far. Having no standards, again tick. You should see my ex-fiancé ;)
Roach motels? That's what's putting me in a different mind though. Sticky sounds like a good things to me.
So we have 3 pros and 1 con. I'm off to book my flight tickets now...:D
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are there NO NEW IDEAS? i can't believe some moron has OK'd effing with my ab fab girls.
I love Kristen from 3rd Rock From the Sun, she was phenomenal, however this will not work out for me for many reasons, least of all everyone knows Edina is the short-ish chubby one, not an emaciated amazon.... Ab Fab is legendary & should soooo NOT be fucked with EVER!! We need some kind of petition started to boycott this atrocity.
Sweetie, darling ... NO! This is sacrilegious.
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ABORT! ABORT! ABORT!.....Someone bring me a knitting needle!!!!
"If Drinks Aren't Involved, Then Neither Am I."
I would put money on that the casting it the other way. Kathryn Hahn for Edwina and this mainly looking butch for Patsy. I hate when they kill fantastic shows in America!!
Oh God. Please do not butcher this show!
I recall those old "talks" about Rosanne Barr wanting to do a remake of this, and that frightened me. And Roseanne is kinda funny.
This show is priceless. AS IS! or it WAS.
I'm starting to see the humor in the idea of an AbFab remake. No, not in the program itself...but in Jennifer Saunders getting Hollywood execs to give her cold hard cash for something that will ultimately fail and which will be so unlike the real AbFab as to do it no harm at all. Sure, it would be nice if she got a payday like Ricky Gervais has no doubt gotten with the multiple Office remakes around the globe. But there must be something funny about watching unimaginative Hollywood execs begging you to remake something that doesn't need to be remade and offering you piles of cash to try. I imagine she'll be laughing all the way to the bank...
NOOOOOO!!! I just woke up, I can't even comprehend this kind of fuckery. I'd be so much happier if they could just play old episodes of AbFab. There's absolutely no way anyone, anywhere, at any time could duplicate its brilliance. Bah, I'm leaving to grumble into my coffee now.
(bursts into tears)
well. not really. but this is just wrong.
sweetie!
Submitted by bettya on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 6:34am.
americans don´t have that charm like the british have.
Why thank you. I'd like to agree but I've heard that Americans have actually seen Jordan so my insistance that we all look like a young Liz Taylor and sound like Helen Mirren has been shown to be the lie that it is.
However- fuck no! Ab Fab should be just left as it is. I can't imagine a US version with the alcohol/drug/people abuse that the UK version relished in. Sigh, Miss Saunders, I'd like a word with you.......
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I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it. (Groucho Marx)
why can´t america not just watch the british version instead of remaking it would cost them less dough. americans don´t have that charm like the british have. it just wouldn´t be funny.
and kat and kim first of all they fill me up with hate more then they do laughs
That's a really bad picture of Kristen Johnston.
Never watched Absolutely Fabulous so I can't comment on it.
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Greedy, disingenuous FUCKS!. And I say this with pain in my heart. First because I dislike swearing and second, well, because they should just leave well alone!
Sacrilege!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I grew up on Ab Fab and there can be ONLY ONE!!!! I will not watch this garbage, just as I would not watch Kath and Kim. America, leave perfectly good programs alone.
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Submitted by TITS on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 1:49am.
Submitted by MyTwoCents on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 1:26am.
Does it make me a crim to keep myself trim!
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hehe. So you're not stuffing in it, up to the pussy's bow?
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Submitted by MyTwoCents on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 1:26am.
Does it make me a crim to keep myself trim!
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OK WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA! Ladies chill... I like that Kristen Johnston is in the mix. 3rd rock reruns on tv land are brilliant, and have we all forgotten her episode-stealing performance in sex-and-the-city as the washed up party girl who falls out the window at lame party!?
If the american office can be a positive example, I could see this translation being possible. Saunders just has to make it distinctly american, and pull from fascinating american character studies like anna wintour, or that chick on the style channel that does the commentary for all the runway shows. messss
I can't believe Saunders actually went through with it. I remember her talking about it on Graham Norton and she said she would have a heavy hand in it but it'll probably still suck.
I'm just going to pretend like this desn't even exist.
Submitted by SpunkyBrewster on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 11:31pm.
For fucks sake...the best part of Edina are the fat jokes :@
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I hear ya. Same goes for Kath & Kim... Kim should be chubbeh and they hired Salma? What? No muffin top jokes? Pfft.
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Know why they don't play Rock / Paper / Scissors / Pussy? Because NOTHING beats pussy! -- Toom Viltrax
This makes me want to never agin turn on the... umm... whatchamacallit thing... I want to say telephone... noooo, that's not right... you look at it.
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Know why they don't play Rock / Paper / Scissors / Pussy? Because NOTHING beats pussy! -- Toom Viltrax
OH GOD NO! This is NOT ok!
Bring. me.
..... a knitting needle??
A knitting needle!
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Submitted by little turtle on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 12:15am.
The US remake of the hilarious brit show Coupling was a total failure.Some things are better left alone.Will they ever learn?
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Coupling was just a British imitation of Friends
M.K.s right, the US version will be so sanitized that there is no point in even making it. What is the point if there's no cocaine binges, chain-smoking or self-administration of Botox?
leave abfab ALONE!!!! it's perfect just the eay it is...i refuse to watch this fuckery with kristen...
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I'm chanting as we speak, sweetie darlings, that this programme never sees daylight. Nam myoho renge kyo...
Bullocks! Absolutely Fabulous should absolutely NOT be fucked with.
The US remake of the hilarious brit show Coupling was a total failure.Some things are better left alone.Will they ever learn?
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Tiger - who would your advertisers be?
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I wont even watch. No fucking way.
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Kristen Johnson looks like Pink's older sister or mother, no?
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Submitted by Sock-Monkey on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 11:28pm.
Nothing. I mean...NOTHING..can top Absolutely Fabulous! Don't.even.try.
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NBC has got in the works..."Absotigerifficmonkeyfab"...yeah, it's a sit-com about a tiger and a sock monkey living together in suburbian Atlanta, and how they get along...or donn't....*fake sit-com laugh track*...See? It's a big hit with American audiences....We'll have Kim's weave as a guest star, and NeNe...and if we get NeNe, THE COOP follows...THE COOP!!!!
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For fucks sake...the best part of Edina are the fat jokes :@
Nothing. I mean...NOTHING..can top Absolutely Fabulous! Don't.even.try.
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Did Kristen lose weight or is that an old pic? She was a bit heavier in that Drew Barrymore lyrics movie.
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Submitted by liquidliner on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 11:08pm.
I would just like to call out that KJ's tits are uneven.
Thanks,
Katie
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And she looks like the elderly version of the less hot chick from Charles in Charge.
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I am the devil, and I am here to do the devil's work.
I would just like to call out that KJ's tits are uneven.
Thanks,
Katie
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I'm dumb so I had to look up "ebullient." It basically means unicorns riding on rainbows flew out of her Hello Kitty.- MK
According to Roseanne Barr (back in the day) she bought the rights to the show and handed in several scripts but none were approved. All were considered too vulgur. (which is lovely when you consider Rock of Love, Bad Girls, and Paris Hilton made it past the censors) Apparently they were censoring talent and humor, not vulgarity.
Too add insult to injury, I spent most of the years when Third Rock from the Sun was on listening to people tell me "you look just like that girl on Third Rock". So now, in this woman's version of hell, I am going to be told I look just like that no talent hack who is currently defaming the memory of the real AB Fab. And with her playing Patsy, I'll probably be told I look just like that drag queen on tv who is defaming the memory of the real ABFab. I think we all need to start a petition........petitions keep bad shows on the air, can't one keep a bad show off?
of course, like so many others, my first reaction was/is:
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
this cannot happen! we must parade and picket and protest!!! this is like re-making 'i love lucy' but MORE than that even!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can we form a PAC?
i'm in!