http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/justin/2008/08/01/top-10-fall-season-questions/ All things television with columnist Neal Justin, the Star Tribune's answer to Mr. Roarke. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:39:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/justin/2008/08/01/top-10-fall-season-questions/#comment-1004 pdxtran Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:27:39 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/justin/2008/08/01/top-10-fall-season-questions/#comment-1004 I'm wondering why they bothered to remake Life on Mars at all. The original British series was wonderful and perfectly accessible to the many Americans who watched it on BBC America. In the 1950s and 1960s, British shows were imported directly to U.S. network television. Examples include Robin Hood, The Buccaneers, The Avengers, Secret Agent, and The Prisoner. All of them were extremely popular, especially The Avengers, which was "must see TV" when I was in high school. Do the networks believe that they have so thoroughly dumbed down the American public that they can no longer show unadulterated British programming to a mass audience? I’m wondering why they bothered to remake Life on Mars at all. The original British series was wonderful and perfectly accessible to the many Americans who watched it on BBC America. In the 1950s and 1960s, British shows were imported directly to U.S. network television. Examples include Robin Hood, The Buccaneers, The Avengers, Secret Agent, and The Prisoner. All of them were extremely popular, especially The Avengers, which was “must see TV” when I was in high school. Do the networks believe that they have so thoroughly dumbed down the American public that they can no longer show unadulterated British programming to a mass audience?

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