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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT’s Mitch Hurwitz Developing ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS Remake For Fox Network!!

Foist by Count Screwface	Oct 7th, 2008 12:51:58 AM
G00d news. Love Hurwitz. Hope he's working on 'Arrested' on the side
Why? by Kurutteru Yatsu	Oct 7th, 2008 01:06:14 AM
Didn't they try this years ago with Roseanne producing and Carrie Fisher in the Jennifer Saunders role? Just let it go.
They did this already by TroutMaskReplicant	Oct 7th, 2008 01:39:42 AM
They shot a bad pilot years ago. Hurwitz was probably asked to do an Ugly Betty/Sex And The City clone and thought "well a pimps got to eat" then decided on a rehash. Also, more Arrested Development pretty please.
Oh so they didn't even shoot the pilot by TroutMaskReplicant	Oct 7th, 2008 01:59:29 AM
I must have been thinking of Red Dwarf. Does anyone remember the shitty Fawlty Towers remake? The Nut House or something. Still there's always success stories like Sanford And Son and All In The Family.
I want the damned movie already. by pip1345	Oct 7th, 2008 02:26:59 AM
Who gives a shit about this? Mitch, give me an Arrested Development movie. Give it to me now. I want it. So bad. SOOO bad.
They tried to do this in France and with Cybill Shepherd... by AnnoyYou	Oct 7th, 2008 04:24:39 AM
...on her show "Cybill" with the otherwise great Christine Baranski (in the "Patsy-ish" role), and it didn't work in either case. AbFab was singularly British and singularly tailored to the talents of Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. It also had a great supporting cast. I can't think of any American actress who could do either role credibly - one would have to be completely fearless and willing to look ridiculous and unattractive, and let's face it, no American actress would be willing to do that, nor would any producer allow that in a series. So it will end up watered-down and stupid and a pale imitation of the original. Why even bother?
Again? by snowpuff	Oct 7th, 2008 04:48:00 AM

They have got to be kidding by The StarWolf	Oct 7th, 2008 05:48:36 AM
From the painfully unfunny PAYNE so-called remake of superb FAWLTY TOWERS to the unbearably dull DC FOLLIES so-called remake of the side-splitting SPITTING IMAGE, Hollywood simply CANNOT DO that sort of British humour properly. Too much political correctness getting in the way. So why bother?
On the subject of FAWLTY TOWERS remakes by RenoNevada2000	Oct 7th, 2008 06:09:56 AM
Let's not forget AMANDA'S, starring Bea Arthur in the John Cleese role. Though in all fairness, I could see how they thought that would work as both Bea Arthur and John Cleese have enormous cocks.
Absolutely Unnecessary by chrth	Oct 7th, 2008 07:28:53 AM

Hurwitz Ab-Fab remake cancelled by Thrillho77	Oct 7th, 2008 07:47:10 AM
It just got canceled everyone. Movie possibly in the works.
Seriously though by Thrillho77	Oct 7th, 2008 07:48:37 AM
Doesn't that mean Hurwitz is developing, like, 4 different upcoming TV shows?!? They must really feel bad about Arrested Development. Their gonna feel even worse when they cancel all of these.
IT CAN'T WORK! by ZeroCorpse	Oct 7th, 2008 09:18:41 AM
American women acting like that won't come off the same way. They'll just seem ridiculous and pathetic, and in an unfunny way. We don't need it. Just play the original here on prime time if you want to expose audiences to AbFab.
And BTW- NEVER REMAKE THE YOUNG ONES! by ZeroCorpse	Oct 7th, 2008 09:21:08 AM
Dammit. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it, but here it is anyway: If Hollywood tries to remake the Young Ones as an American show, I'll have to kick some ass.
Fuck, Hurwitz is doing tons now... by DanielKurland	Oct 7th, 2008 09:25:54 AM
And always with FOX, Hm....Stars of Quarterlife? The show that lasted one episode?
Didn't they already try this... by Pdorwick	Oct 7th, 2008 09:32:02 AM
...and it failed miserably?
Arrested Development Documentary by jasmith111	Oct 7th, 2008 10:27:32 AM
check out the trailers.... http://www.youtube.com/user/bl uthfamilyvalues
This is a terrible idea. by FookU	Oct 7th, 2008 10:49:04 AM
Hollywood doesn't have the balls to do this properly. This is gonna suck if it's ever made.
The Washingtoniennes? by tonagan	Oct 7th, 2008 10:51:29 AM
Is it a sequel/remake of that Masters of Horror episode?
I would have preferred his "The Thick of It" remake by supertoyslast	Oct 7th, 2008 12:32:34 PM
I still want to see the pilot of that.
Mary-Louise Parker and Elizabeth Perkins by bswise	Oct 7th, 2008 12:43:37 PM
Not that I'm dying to see this, or even will, but these two of Weeds, etc., have joked about doing a yankee AbFab, and I think they could actually make it work.
They did Faulty Towers twice by MGTHEDJ	Oct 7th, 2008 03:07:41 PM
Once with Bea Arthur, and she was playing Sybil. When they told Cleese they were writing out Basil for the remake, he knew it would fail. The other version was with Whoopie Goldberg. "Cybill" was a clone of AbFab and Christine Baranski was doing a dead-on clone job of Joanna L., right down to the clothes and the walk. Baranski won the Emmy, and at the podium thanked the writers "for writing a completly original character." The next year Cybill Shepherd put her foot down as exec. producer, and turned the show from a remake of "AbFab" to a remake of "I Love Lucy: The Year in Hollywood."-----later-----m
That's Fawlty Towers by MGTHEDJ	Oct 7th, 2008 03:09:19 PM
Man, I knew I should have spell-checked.--m
no way by simndermot	Oct 7th, 2008 03:17:24 PM
No way this would work on network TV. It would have to be a cable series and in reality, if I want to watch AbFab, its on BBC America enough where I can see it there.
Another "AbFab" remake... by 433	Oct 7th, 2008 08:23:17 PM
...was "Lush Life", starring Lori Petty. It was a lower-class version of the show, but you could tell that it was based on the British show.
For British Eyes Only! by Christopher3	Oct 7th, 2008 09:53:38 PM
Oh, COME ON!
Seriously ... it already failed by VoldemortWearsPrada	Oct 8th, 2008 04:34:13 AM
Roseanne Barr had the rights to this years ago, and when told to cut out the drugs, the drinking, the dark humour, and everything else that made it interesting, ditched it. Ain't gonna work - not then, not now, not never.
Stop remaking British shows! by catlettuce4	Oct 8th, 2008 08:25:32 AM
seriously, with the exception of The Office, when have ANY of them gone well? just because you're only just understanding the jokes from the first run, doesn't justify a remake. What's next? The Good Life?
I thought they tried this with Whoppy Goldberg... by emeraldboy	Oct 8th, 2008 10:21:55 AM
and it vanished...quickly. I did remember some awful show with Whoopy goldberg and that Iranian born british comic Ohmad Dhjallily. Very Funny bloke. But giving him his own show was a mistake by the BBC. He seemed rather boxed in by the writers. and his act can tire quickly. But its observations as an iranian born and brought living in the west that are very funny and spot on.
and anyway ad fab.... by emeraldboy	Oct 8th, 2008 10:26:32 AM
is not a funny program. its one of those shows that you look back on and say. my god, I cant believe I watched that crap. June Whitfield was great in it though. and that scene with the femi-doms is hilarious. The best bit was the end where Saffy stood up to her mum and patsey. through them out of her house.
at least fox are not progressing... by emeraldboy	Oct 8th, 2008 10:31:28 AM
with their re-make of Some Mothers do have 'em. If you have never seen that. Look at it. Laugh at it(Kirsty wark hates Frank Spencer) and marvel at Micheal Crawford risking his neck every week. No stuntmen on that show.

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