American TV networks up to their usual shenanigans

[Vlad!]

I think one of the top items on TV networks' playbooks these days is "remake popular stuff from other countries".

And now they've announced their own version of BBC's Sherlock.

Much like American Top Gear, American Iron Chef, and undoubtedly all the other American adaptations which I haven't seen, it will likely be inferior.

(Whenever I tell someone that I watch Top Gear, if they've heard about it at all people always assume, correctly, that I mean the BBC version. I'm not sure who actually watch American Top Gear, but it's probably people who are too stupid to know that there's a better one across the pond or too inept to figure out how to watch it.

[Aaron]

There's an American Top Gear? I always thought the one on BBC America is the British version

[bloop]

I think Law & Order is about the only American export to Britain. There's probably a reason for that.

[Vlad!]

There's an American Top Gear? I always thought the one on BBC America is the British version

It likely is. The American Top Gear is a different show. A Google search suggests that it's on the History channel, for some inexplicable reason.

[enemy anemone]

I would maybe watch this if the show made fun of itself and got John Krasinski to play Martin Freeman's role and changed his name from John to Tom and got a rotating cast of characters (Monk, House, etc...) to play Sherlock.  (not really.)

I've heard of some bizarre-sounding British remakes of Amercian sitcoms and found this pair of blog entries.

[Vlad!]

The BBC were upset, on the premise that America's Elementary would be too close to their own Sherlock.

They might not have much to worry about

The next logical step, of course, is the actual exhumation and violation of A. C. Doyle's corpse.

[enemy anemone]

a fun (?) game: could a random name from imdb be a more bizarre casting choice for Watson?

[Vlad!]

I got Emma Watson, which is awesome because, though I think she would be at least equally as bizarre, her last name is actually Watson. Winnar!

[enemy anemone]

just now I got John Krasinski!

[Vlad!]

I clicked several times until I got someone I recognized, which happened to be Gary Oldman. I think he would make a better Holmes than Watson, but a better Watson than Lucy Loo would.

(I'm not dead set against the idea of a female Watson, but I have no respect for Lucy Liu as an actress. Also, I think a female Holmes would be much more interesting, especially because the show could turn Holmes' legendary sexism on its head in so many amusing ways).

[NinjaRob17]

a fun (?) game: could a random name from imdb be a more bizarre casting choice for Watson?

First one: Audrey Hepburn.

YES