Being Erica - ABC Developing US Version
16 Dec 2010
Cancelled ShowsABC is developing a U.S. version of Canadian hit "Being Erica," which formerly aired on Alphabet sister cabler SoapNet.
Maggie Friedman ("Eastwick") will write the U.S. version and exec produce. David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, who head up Toronto-based Temple Street Prods., which produces the original series, will also exec produce.
"Being Erica" centers on a woman who travels back in time to relive a regret from the past and manages to correct those wrongs in the present. Show, created by Jana Sinyor, debuted on CBC in 2009.
"Being Erica's" first two seasons aired on SoapNet, and a third season, which bowed this fall in Canada, is set to run on the channel starting Jan. 26, 2011. (Any future Canadian seasons may have to find a new home, however, as SoapNet will be replaced at the end of 2011 by Disney Junior.)
Source: Variety
a Canadian Version a UK v ersion and a US version could all be running next year lol nice or all could get canned..
ReplyDeleteWhy a remake?? The Canadian Version is perfect! Erin Karpluk is wonderfull as Erica
ReplyDeleteNormally I'm pretty open minded about remakes and reboots but this may just be the dumbest idea for a remake in quite some time.
ReplyDeleteWhy the hell would the US need to remake a Canadian TV show? Maybe it's the thick Canadian accents or the fear that US audiences won't be able to relate to the strange and mystical Canadian culture. Maybe it's because, more often than not, US TV executives are idiots. I'm betting it's the third one.
Running a show on SoapNet eliminates 50-75% of your audience before the show airs since most will not tune in to that channel or do not have it. Why not just buy the rights and air the seies from the beginning on its original Canadian form? They could put forced subs on the screen for euphemisms... for those that cannot decipher such difficult language barriers like "we stopped to get a Timmy's before going to work" = "we stopped to get a coffee".
ReplyDeleteYou for got the Golden Rule of TV... co-opt someone else's successful TV series and make it your own less successful series to make more money than if you bought a license.
ReplyDeleteThat may be so but it's also a much bigger investment. After cost-intensive shows like Pushing Daisies, Life on Mars, FlashForward, and V, you'd figure they'd wise up with their spending.
ReplyDeleteWise and TV executive rarely belong in the same sentence!
ReplyDeleteAh, touché. You got me there.
ReplyDeleteIt should also be noted that the SOAPnet network goes off the air in January 2012 and will be replaced by Disney Junior.
ReplyDeleteDoes not affect me, but my mom will be angry! lol
ReplyDelete2100: Every scripted show on network TV will be either a remake, reboot, re-imagination or adaptation of a book, comic, game or twitter account.
ReplyDeleteYou'd think after trying to remake quality programming like Life On Mars from the UK, that the brain dead morons (sorry ABC Executives), would perhaps learn from their previous glaring f**k ups. Why not spend a little time and effort and come up with something original, perhaps ABC and SyFy share the same idiots in "charge", as they've also shot themselves in the foot....Suprised they've not tried remaking BBC's Doctor Who, now that would be a major f**k up....
ReplyDeleteThis makes me really angry. I'm tired of American Networks co-opting ideas from other countries. American Being Human? American Being Erica? Neither of these shows will capture the awesomeness of the originals. Both the BBC and the CBC have WAY laxer rulers about censorship.
ReplyDeleteHa, it's a pretty odd decision.
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