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A possible American version of Doctor Who with Billie Piper on the way
Wayne814
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From the News of the World
Telly bosses are trying to tempt Billie Piper to return as Doctor Who's sidekick-in a multi-million-pound US version of the show.
Billie, 25, won two awards playing Rose Tyler in the BBS hit. She left last year with the opportunity for a comeback-standed on an alternate planet Earth. But tackling america will be her most exciting mission with the doctor yet.
A US TV indsider said " We've been following the relaunched Doctor Who and we love it. Billie will become a superstar here". X-men actor hugh jackman may play the doctor becauses brit david teannant is doing a fourth series here.
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I doubt it will happen.
Copying, Man-United supporting, American gits
[/Gene Hunt voice]
Hugh Jackman, oh yes I can see that one happening!!! NOT!!!!
I think a good US team would be Jim Carrey or Mike Myers as the Doctor and Scarlett Johansson as his beautiful assistant. I think the Canadian actors would probably get more of the British spirit in it. In fact Mike Myers is half British anyway.
?? Not very, as no-one is actually falling for it. How unobservant are you? :rolleyes:
Pretty observant, actually.
The OP, Wayne814, created a thread about the story and quoted the report, expressing no skepticism at all.
ben93 said "Oh dear" before recalling that the report is in a paper little better than fish wrap.
Eaglestriker made a joking LOM reference but still decried "American copying," when someone who didn't believe the report would more likely be decrying the idiotic "journalism" that passed off nonsense as a real story.
Only donna255 seemed to call the report outright rubbish. dtr TV expert only expressed "doubt," which is a rather mild response to the dumbest thing I have heard reported in a newspaper in a while.
Still don't think it'd happen though.
It also airs on BBC America but not everyone gets that channel here.
Not true at all. There are tons of quirky U.S. made programs on American TV. I think we can handle a bit of Brit quirkiness as well.
A fishwrap paper didn't announce the US LOM project. The initial LOM story specified the American network doing the project, ABC, and the producer, David E. Kelley. And the report certainly didn't include some "anonymous," but no doubt non-existent, "TV insider" gushing about a marginally-talented British actress becoming a "superstar" in America.
I wonder if the US would consider a series of TVM's, perhaps featuring DT and BP. They could be based on some of the novels that take place outside of the series we've seen so far. I always thought The Stone Rose, for example, would make a good episode or TVM. Here's some dreaming for you, if they were made with USTV money and were a success, perhaps we'd see major financial backing for a Time War movie/mini series.
I think I need to wake up.
I would. The 1996 movie was aimed at US tv and it went down like a lead balloon there.
Just compare the TVM's tacky explanation of the TARDIS's appearance and dimensions with the one given in Rose. Then compare its long-winded explanation of regeneration with the couple of lines used in Parting of the Ways.
It's hardly surprising that Americans didn't want a weekly dose of convoluted continuity, borrowed from a defunct British series shown on PBS.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Have you seen Ruby in the Smoke? Have you seen her West End show?
No? Oh, what a surprise.
Just because you don't like her as an actress, doesnt mean her acting credentials aren't becoming quite impressive.