Category: US
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The Rear Guard
On Tuesday the 10th August 1976, ABC aired the pilot of The Rear Guard. Based on Dad’s Army, the premise relocates the action to the American Civil Defence auxillary force, and is based on the British version’s episode The Deadly Attachment.
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The Minister Of Divine
The first show greenlit in the 2007 pilot season by Fox was The Minister Of Divine. It was a remake of The Vicar Of Dibley, and it was announced in Variety, using the weird vernacular of the showbiz press. Fox has greenlit its first full-fledged comedy pilot of the fall 2007 development season: the Suzanne…
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Seinfeld’s Movie References
This is a really well put together montage of Seinfeld and its movie references. It’s striking just how often the show draws upon conspiracy thrillers.
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Beane’s Of Boston
We’ve had a brief look at the Australian version of Are You Being Served? before. Now, thanks to Ben Baker, who books about television you definitely should buy and read, I stumbled across the US remake of the show. It was made by CBS as a pilot, and was re-titled Beane’s Of Boston. The story…
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ABC’s Taking February By Storm
In February of 1999 something rather special happened on ABC. For the first time ever, Stephen King had written the screenplays for a mini-series called Storm Of The Century, and ABC was going to air it over three nights. King himself described the show as ‘a novel for television’, and regards it as the favourite…
