Nighty Night to be remade in US!

 
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:57 pm    Post subject: Nighty Night to be remade in US! Reply with quote


'Nighty Night' to be remade for US
by Neil Wilkes

BBC Three's dark comedy Nighty Night is to be remade for US cable network Showtime.

Sex and the City creator Darren Star will write and executive produce the US version, which has been commissioned for a pilot script. Steve Coogan and Henry Normal, founders of production company Baby Cow, will co-executive produce.

The original UK version airs Stateside on women's channel Oxygen.

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Considering how few people watched it here (it was on bbc3) I can only imagine that the remake will be sanitised and pish. The whole basis of the first series is that Jill is pretending her husband is dead while he is in fact in hospital with cancer, while trying to shag her disabled neighbour's husband - and I just can't see that working in america. It's the darkest comedy I've seen for a good while, so maybe I'm just a bit precious about it being diluted for a mass audience.
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Dave Bishop



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I totally agree - still can't quite get over how they got away with it over here!

It is excellent, and I too would hate it if they ruined it.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Nighty Night to be remade in US! Reply with quote

faceless wrote:


Considering how few people watched it here (it was on bbc3)


It was commisioned by BBC3 but was given a full run on BBC2.
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tasst



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We have had Nighty Nite on BBC Canada here, really enjoyed it. Can not think what a mesh the USA will make of it then claim it was their idea. If it just happens to be a success. clap
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