An American TV question

[bookzombie]

For the group mind: does BBC America end up showing British series other than just BBC-originated series?

The reason I ask is that in the last couple of weeks I've heard Americans refer to Robin of Sherwood, Downton Abbey and the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series from the 1980s as 'BBC series'. None of them are, they are all ITV (as are The Avengers, The Tomorrow People, Children of the Stones, Upstairs Downstairs - the original version not the recent one - Danger Mouse and The Prisoner)

Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I think PBS shows most of the ITV series, and US folks don't know any better.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

(IIRC, however, it was Nickelodeon who was responsible for Tomorrow People and Danger Mouse.)

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

You didn't escape The Tomorrow People? I'm sorry...

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I luuuuuved the (original) Tomorrow People when I was, what, twelve? It was the closest thing I was going to get to a live-action X-Men at the time, after all.

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I loved it as a kid as well. But seeing at as an adult, it really hasn't stood the test of time at all well. It still has the best ever title sequence!

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

Oh, and apparently the CW is prepping a new version of The Tomorrow People. Be afraid, be very afraid!

(With Syfy channel working on a new version of Blakes 7, it appears that Doctor Who is the only British sf series we still get to make ourselves...)

[rawdon.livejournal.com]

I like to think of The Tomorrow People as "The Culture for tweens".