From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated   
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   Subject: Re: New American series   
      
   In article , "Bok C"   
    wrote:   
   >    
   > I don't know what you mean here.  Some American versions of British TV shows    
   > have been flip flops, but others ones really took off.  Just look at Being    
   > Human, Too Close For Comfort, Three's Company, Not Necessarily the News, The    
   > Office, Sanford and Son, American Idol and Queer and Folk.   
      
   Most, if not all, of those are American shows "based on" of British shows   
   (extremely loosely in some cases). They aren't re-using the same name or   
   ideas, and have lots of, usually silly, changes that really make them into   
   different shows.   
      
      
      
      
   > I actually think it makes more sense to try launching an American version of    
   > Doctor Who while it's still popular and running in Britain.  Not only will    
   > help the ratings, but if it doesn't succeed we still have the original    
   > British version to watch, and if it does we have twice as much Doctor Who!    
   > It's win/win!   
      
   It can't work, and thankfully it's unlikely to even be attempted. You   
   can't have two competing version of the same thing going at once. It   
   destroys the coherence of the franchise ... hence Ron Moore's version of   
   "Battlestar Galactica" has killed off the original, real "Battlestar   
   Galactica", and JJ Abrams version of "Star Trek" has killed off the real   
   "Star Trek" (to name just two cases).   
      
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