Want. Or want to, anyway.

[captainsblog]

I heard an extended interview on Talk of the Nation this afternoon with Maria Bello, who's attempting the seemingly impossible task of filling Helen Mirren's sensible high-heeled shoes in the US adaptation of Prime Suspect.  I can't say I'm up on any of her filmography, but she sounds like a down-to-earth actress looking the right way at a challenging role. I want to watch it, and I want to like it. Still, I just hope this doesn't wind up on the scrap heap of mistranslated Episodes that have made it this way across the Williams in recent years.

One of the oddest bits of all (found, with equal irony, on another public broadcasting website) was the showrunner's answer to the top-mindest question I had, of why they changed Jane's last name:

"Cause, you know, Helen Mirren's always going to be Jane Tennison, which is fine 'cause she deserves to be," Cunningham explains. "But Maria deserves to be her own character, is why I changed her last name."

I do hope this trend doesn't catch on too well- either the random importing or the renaming. Otherwise, some strange Saturday evening in a TARDIS far far away, we might very well be subjected to Gynecologist Why.

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In any event, no matter what becomes of this, it's just two Sundays to Dexter. Good luck with HIM, Jane.

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[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

The eighth Doctor film was a US co-production-- it didn't go well. Very Americanised, with not much input from the Beeb, or so the story goes. I sorta apologised for the filom on Good Morning Wales in 2008. I was sick and exhausted and about to run a conference so it seemed the thing to do.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Well, Miracle Day was a US co-production, also, although that may have just been Starz money rather than actual input. I still don't know enough about what to compare it to, but from the reactions I heard, it wasn't any more clusterfucked than COE was, which we had nothing to do with.

You could've gone with the Worf explanation of the Tribbles era Klingon appearance: "We do not speak of it with outsiders."

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

No, the way US co-productions work, generally, is that they demand script approval, which means control. MD was definitely more Americanised than the earlier 3 series, in everything from tone to shot selection, though many of those reflect series with strong Anglo-American connections (e.g., ER and House). This will be at least one chapter in the PhD (probably 2, one textual analysis and the other audience research) and I'm happy to have you read it, if you like.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Now see, here. you're the professional. I didn't notice any substantial cinematography or dialog differences between TW and Who (either RTD's or Moff's), other than the absence of aliens and overt time travely tings. I'm sure you'll be able to give me one or two examples of what I missed.

And you KNOW that I'll read anything of yours- including your takeaway menus if you've got good notes on them, thanks:)

Finally, I just realised: PS is in NBC's original Hill Street Blues timeslot.