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Originally Posted by Chris T
The US TV audience is notoriously less accepting of 'foreign' TV than we are over here. It is therefore quite common for production companies to sell the idea to the Yanks rather than the programme itself. In some cases I think it's a real shame, but in the case of Life on Mars, what enjoyment would a general US audience get out of the backdrop being 1970s Manchester? It doesn't mean anything to them.
Their TV tradition is very rich in this area, they have Kojak, Colombo, Starsky and Hutch ... they have more than enough 70s cop cliches to draw on without having to make do with ours.
And seeing as all those shows travelled over here much more readily than the likes of The Professionals did over there, I think ironically a British audience would probably warm to an American remake. I'd quite like to see it, anyway, if it ever gets made!
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Ah ok, I see why now then. I'm sure it can't be as good as the UK version?
