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Multi-national I imagine. An Asian company co-producing it with Granada maybe?
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Whataday Founding member
Digifiend posted:
Multi-national I imagine. An Asian company co-producing it with Granada maybe?


I'd imagine you're wrong on both accounts, as Granada has nothing to do with Mr Bean. It's much more likely to be a co-production between Tiger Aspect and another European company.
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Tiger Aspect is an international company! As for Granada, I think they are involved - don't forget, someone has to check the content for the ITC, remember the recent Channel TV complaints about that Pop Idol trail and Bad Girls - Thames and Shed aren't part of ITV, so someone else had to take responsibility. It's the same for Mr Bean.
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Whataday Founding member
Digifiend posted:
Tiger Aspect is an international company! As for Granada, I think they are involoved - don't forget, someone has to check the content for the ITC, remember the recent Channel TV complaints about that Pop Idol trail and Bad Girls - Thames and Shed aren't part of ITV, so someone else had to take responsibility. It's the same for Mr Bean.


What has that got to do with anything? You're completely going off the point.
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corian posted:
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Corin posted:
was not Monty Python shown on NBC during primetime, or am I just having a memory general protection error?


It was also shown on MTV, which is when it really began to get "mainstream awareness" in the states.


Monty Python screened years before on hundreds of PBS station across the country before MTV was even created. That is were the cult audience developed.
Mr. Bean the animated series now screens on many PBS station across the country in the US
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Brekkie
Twisting this topic slightly, what about UK hosts abroad.

I know Amanda Byram (Paradise Hotel), Dani Behr (Boy Meets Boy) and Simon Cowell (American Idol / Cupid) all have shows in the US, while it was reported a few months ago that Ant and Dec will front a US version of Saturday Night Takeaway.

I guess the most successful Brit in US TV would be Tracey Ullman.
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Whataday Founding member
Brekkie Boy posted:
it was reported a few months ago that Ant and Dec will front a US version of Saturday Night Takeaway..



I doubt that will go down too well. Amanda Byram is Irish BTW.
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Woody_streatham
Whataday posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
it was reported a few months ago that Ant and Dec will front a US version of Saturday Night Takeaway..



I doubt that will go down too well. Amanda Byram is Irish BTW.


Was she the one on the Big Breakfast?
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Brekkie
Yep - Amanda Byram was on the Big Breakfast. As soon as I posted it I remembered she was Irish, but I guess by hosting the BB, she was a "UK host".
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Woody_streatham
Good for her. I really liked her on the BB, and thought it was a shame she didn't get anywhere (or so I thought) How did she get on in the States? Was Paradise Hotel a success?
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Si-Co
Regarding imports rarely being shown primetime, I see Coronation Street now has a 7pm slot in Canada, to complement its 3pm slot.
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ED Founding member
Si-Co posted:
Regarding imports rarely being shown primetime, I see Coronation Street now has a 7pm slot in Canada, to complement its 3pm slot.


Is that on CBC? Or is it on another Canadian network/cable channel?

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