[geeks] UK geeks with DVRs?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 @ 22:49 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson said:

> What. So far the only sitcom that has ever crossed the Atlantic and survived
> was "The Office", and I personally hated both versions. Coupling was not bad, 
> bad would be too good a word for it.

Heh...

> Red Dwarf was tried twice and failed to get beyond the pilot stage. Too
> bad, one of the had Terry Farrell (later DS9's Jadzia Dax), as "the Cat".

I wonder if anyone has a video on the net somewhere...

> Fox tried to revive Dr Who in the mid 1990's but made a fatal mistake.
> Since the Doctor had to be British, they used a competent, but not 
> great actor. The Master (his enemy) was played by Eric Roberts (IMHO
> a better actor than his sister) who made the Doctor look like an amateur.

Is that the same Dr. Who that just recently started running on the
Sci-Fi channel in the US?


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