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...

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

BBC America shows stuff from all over the British networks. It is, for instance, the reason so many people think the BBC made Primeval.

[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]

Ah, I thought it might be something like that, thanks!

[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...)

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Inexplicably, BBC America also shows Star Trek: The Next Generation.

[themis1.livejournal.com]

I still have to smile (despairingly, you understand) about the American family sharing our table at a convention in Maryland who refused to believe that we British had made 'Upstairs Downstairs', because it was shown on PBS so obviously it was a US series.

They were not quite as backward as some friends of my ex-husband, who were surprised, when visiting his parents' house, to find that they had TV at all. Because, you know, it's an American thing.

Yeah ...

[rawdon.livejournal.com]

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

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I've never had BBC America -- most of those shows are things I've seen on other stations: I saw The Prisoner on TVOntario, a local publicly-funded station that carried a lot of UK shows, the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes was on Masterpiece Theatre (US PBS)... I can't remember which station had Robin of Sherwood.