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This news is the kind that’ll send American TV producers to suicide hotlines. I’ve just learned that The CW is seriously considering picking up 2 UK reality shows and retransmissioning them this summer. That’s right: not remaking them, but retransmissioning them. Needless to say, every UK TV channel, company, and producer is panting to get the gig.
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It’s too bad they can’t just get the rights to retransmit some British dramas. I know Merlin wasn’t the biggest hit for NBC, but this is The CW we’re talking about, and to see Doctor Who or Torchwood in primetime – or even the UK version of Being Human – would be fantastic.
After all, aren’t Warner Bros. and BBC allied somehow with DVD distribution? Might be worth looking into. Especially with BBC Worldwide still seeming interested in Torchwood redux for the U.S… it’d be a good testing ground.
Really starting to wonder again about the viability of the CW. I think they just started to make money (someone correct me if I am wrong) and now perhaps since their ratings are so drastically down they are not again? This just seems like another cost saving measure – though a pretty drastic one.
Channel loses over $100MM a year. They say they recoup on after market sales, but it’s been the carry-over WB/UPN programming that’s been driving that train. Other than GOSSIP GIRL, no CW produced product has lasted long enough to make it to after market. As stated, this is a savings based decision.
So I’m guessing the programs will center on rich, spoiled, Caucasian teenagers from the UK.. That would be some bloody cup of tea.
They do have a few of those in the UK, but the kids get their comeuppance, usually sent off to Africa or India to see what their spending does to the ecomomies of the areas.
Better than the ass-kissing CW is doing with that Tinsley Mortimer thing.
Why not give it a try? It’s better to recycle than to make garbage.
What is meant by “retransmissioning”?
Wow, that sounds like a programming decision only a finance executive could love.
Is this why the CW is such a runaway succcess? This kind of “innovative” thinking is a death knell.
Turnabout is fair play – since BBC America essentially did the same thing by showing Season 2 of the US version of “Dancing With the Stars” in 2008!
This year they are expanding into the non-reality branch by showing Season 3 of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
they could air “Paris Hiltons British Best Friend”
Is this an indictment of Justin and what’s her name?
Jesus. Clean up in aisle 2.
With Leno and HBO repurposing “Funny or Die” video and SHO showing Lisa Kudrow’s web series, we should worry about what’s going on here in the states.
Networks are looking for cheaper ways to get contact. re-airing British show is something that should’ve been tried a long time ago.
Next they will be showing videos of people getting hit in the nuts.
And now is there further proof that CW should cease as a network and Dawn Ostroff be shown the door once and for all? I mean, good grief!
I believe this is a great idea, and a cost-saving one also. Millions of American’s download or stream the latest Doctor Who (which is a long-time mega hit over in the UK) why not show it to the americans in HD? rather then crappy 20inch monitor?
I also agree with a fellow poster on here, UK’s version of ‘Being Human’ is fantastic!
I’m positively addicted to their Vampire Diaries show – it’s the first show I’ve ever watched on their channel.
There are SO many UK shows that I’d LOVE to see available here! All the power to them – I hope it works.
This would only make sense if it matched their current programming, a la “Skins.”
Otherwise, they’re just running things that BBCA/Bravo already repeats 100x a day.
(I so wish BBC America actually, you know, SHOWED what the BBC does.)