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   BC>From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated   
   BC>From Address: stopstaring@boobs.com   
   BC>Subject: Re: New American series   
      
   BC>I don't know what you mean here.  Some American versions of British TV shows   
   BC>have been flip flops, but others ones really took off.   
      
   BC>I actually think it makes more sense to try launching an American version of   
   BC>Doctor Who while it's still popular and running in Britain.  Not only will   
   BC>help the ratings, but if it doesn't succeed we still have the original   
   BC>British version to watch, and if it does we have twice as much Doctor Who!   
   BC>It's win/win!   
      
   BC>In article , "Bok C"   
   BC> wrote:   
   BC>>   
   BC>> So apparently somebody is planning to start a new Doctor Who series   
   BC>> production in the states, running parallel to the one in Britain. Do you   
   BC>> think this could work???   
      
   BC>Not a hope in hades of it working (just look at all the other British shows   
   BC>they've tried to Americanise - Americans simply don't understand British   
   BC>shows), but thankfully it won't even be trying to since it's fake news.   
      
   I really liked watching The Avengers on TV here in the U.S.A.   
   That's the only British TV Show other than Doctor Who that I can   
   remember watching.   
      
   There may have been others but can't think of any of them right now.   
      
      
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