I'm Going With Bad Idea
Sometimes I hear about projects in the works and am convinced that they will fail miserably. Sometimes I am wrong--didn't we all think the U.S. Office would be a terrible idea? So I am trying to be open minded about the fact that Kirstie Alley is going to play the vicar in the U.S. version of The Vicar of Dibley. But really, Dawn French is a comic genius, and Kirstie Alley is a nutty Scientologist. See the difference?
"The plot premise will be shifted slightly so that Alley, 56, is cast as a preacher returning to the small town where she grew up as a rebel. In the British version, Dawn French is a newcomer as vicar in an Oxfordshire village."
So it's basically going to be an entirely different show. An entirely different, very bad, show.
"The plot premise will be shifted slightly so that Alley, 56, is cast as a preacher returning to the small town where she grew up as a rebel. In the British version, Dawn French is a newcomer as vicar in an Oxfordshire village."
So it's basically going to be an entirely different show. An entirely different, very bad, show.
posted by mo pie at 6:01 AM
4 Comments:
no no no noooooooo you're kidding! that should be bloody illegal!
Did anyone see the US version of "Men Behaving Badly"?
The biggest problem was that they didn't really. Behave badly that is. They got cleaned up for the US version, so it wasn't funny at all, more like a crappy "Friends" copy where Chandler & Joey live accross from Rachel and Monica and fancy them both rotten. Wait...that IS Friends...
Oh noooo! That's horrible! The Vicar of Dibley is one of my favorite shows and Dawn French is too marvelous. Kirstie Alley is kind of a circus sideshow at this point.
Well, I can't STAND the UK version, but...
...still sounds like a bad idea.
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