NOT AGAIN! AbFab's Edina and Patsy getting Americanized
Filed under: TV News > Anglophilia
Not for the first time, an American TV network is trying to import the UK's Absolutely Fabulous to the States.
Fox is working on an LA twist to the adventures of Jennifer Saunders' Edina and Patsy, netting executive producers Mitch Hurwitz, Eric Tannenbaum and Kim Tannenbaum for Sony Pictures TV, Tantamount, and BBC Worldwide America, along with Saturday Night Live writer Christine Zander teamed with BBC's Ian Moffet and series creator Saunders.
Operating under the notion that if it ain't broke don't fix it, the only real difference in the American versus the British version is that our beloved, devastatingly unhip wannabe cougars will be terrorizing the streets of Los Angeles rather than London. And, as we know, there is all sorts of fabulous trouble to get into here in the City of Angels!
But wait…we're experiencing a strong sense of déjà vu!
A show, from the 90s…
A washed up actress in LA causing mischielf with her best friend as her daughter disapproves…
Starring Cybill Shepherd perhaps? And the much better Christine Baranski!
[Image via WENN.]
Washed up Fat actress.., wannabe.., THAT IS DUDE!!!
LOL!
ahahahaha!
favorite show since i was little!!!!! Hopefully they wont fuck it up
she's funny!
WHAT'S UP BITCHES!
I love that show!! But its a classic, and I don't want it effed with!!
i smell a turd
OMG! OMG!OMG! I am sooooo Xcited!!!! patsy adn Adina! OMG! OMG! OMG!…
Big Fucking Do, she looks like the blowup doll my fucking brother sleeps with, smear some blood on her, she'd look identical with
that big fucking mouth open for business. Give me your dope, whore.
Okay… "to me" no matter what, the original "Ab-Fab" show with the actresses: Joanna Lumley Role: Patricia "Patsy" Stone and Jennifer Saunders Role: Edina "Eddy" Monsoon, rock'd the sitcom: Fabulously Fierce
This is gonna be funny!!! I used to LOVE the show back in the day! They are such a mess
Awesome!!! Love them any way I can get them!!!
Re: LettyB –
Since, I'm a fucking bitch, hello, how you fucking doing?
Actress??? Darling, Eddy owns a PR firm.
MAMA IS BORING AGIN TODAY!
AB Fab is the funniest show ever. I can't see an americanized version have the same outrageous humor.
I'd hoped they come back to NYC. We miss them at the Strand.
Re: SheriMoonZombie – HEY GIRL, I'M A BITCH TOO AND PROUD OF IT!
BLASPHEMY!!!!!
WHOOAH!
Re: LettyB – MAMA I MEANT IT'S BORING AGAIN TODAY!
love the show, but it´s not going to work in America. Your country is way to conservative so the show would have to be a watered down version of the original and thus crappy! Not a good idea!
wait im confused. will it be patsy and eddy, or will it be two characters based off of them?
BOO!
I like the idea but I doubt it will work. Why not just show the re-runs instead.
They are going to totally fuck this up! If they did it on HBO or Showtime, then MAYBE it would turn out good. Fox? Regular TV? It's gonna suck. Don't do it!!!
Noooo! There's no way they can make it as rowdy as the UK version. No way! Half the fun was figuring out what Patsy and Edina were saying!
noooooooooo! don't do it!! the original is perfect and not to be messed with!!
NOOOOOOOOOOO!
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They will RUIN it, the whole reason the original was funny was because it WAS British, no one thinks LAians are funny. Like we need more CA trash on TV!
YESSSS!!!! I used to love this show, although I hope they do it justice, Adina & Patsy are my bitches
Re: Julia Louise –
Julia Louise, "our country" broadcasts the original all the time, un-watered down. Stop slapping yourself on the back, the show isn't THAT "progressive".
I love love love Ab Fab, sweetie. I adore it. I just hope that they don't mess it up, darling.
I love it!
Cybil was a very weak attempt at making a n American version of ABFAB.
UGH!
Everyone know that the British shows are better. They don't transfer over well, except Three's company
LEAVE MY AB FAB ALONE!!!!!
I won't watch unless Joanna Lumely (sp) and Jenifer Saunders will be back.
what's with the recent British comedies being Americanized?
I mean i'm sure that it'll come out ok, but kind of disappointing that there's nothing original coming out on tv anymore.
noooo not AbFab too.
first Little Britain, now this?
Posh would be a good patsy…or any one of hundreds of trannies at the Queen Mary in Studio City.
I LOVEEEE AB FAB.
I would rather watch one of the original episodes over and over again than any stupid LA re-hashing!
I love them! Bring them over and let the show begin!!
xoxo, Isa
the original series is one of the most amazing stupid shows ever.
It's a show about nothing, but it has that english factor, that makes it absolutely fabulous (lol).
Doing an american version of the show……mmmmm….it seems like it will be some sort of Samantha Jones, drunk and stoned…doing crazy american stuff…..I guess it will never happen.
It will be just another project, but hopefully, someone will realise that is impossible to make. Well, not impossible, but….wrong to do.
I'm so sad about this! Leave AbFab the way it was meant to be… British!
It's f-ing hilarious!
God forbid any American development exec actually invest in a NEW idea. Post writers' strike look for lots of imports, Kath & Kim anyone? It's the studios' way of saying fuck you WGA members, we don't need you.
I. love. that. show.
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! you cannot. cannot make remake abfab for stupid americans! no no no no no no no!!!!!!! they're going to have to dumb it down and take out all the subtle wit, that makes this show great, just so we americans will "get it!" I PROTEST! I WILL NOT WATCH! NO! NEVER! why can't we just be happy with two and a half men and full house reruns! leave the genious of comedy to the experts…the brits!!!!
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I love them and look forward! I so picture Paris Hilton being Patsy Stone in a few years!
At least we didn't eff up The Office-best show on tv!!! We actually made it better than the original!
Jim and Pam forever!!
Christine Baranski would make a perfect Patsy…Eddie should be Carrie Fisher
They did mess up Coupling by bring it State side…….AbFab is maniacal and completely corrupt….it will never survive in America's puritanical society…..I LOVE IT!!!! it's blatantly rude, crude..I mean how are you gonna write how Patsy sells Eddies' daughter, Saffie, in a Market in Marrakesh??? can't be done.
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but it's gotta be with the original cast common!
i knew it was only a matter of time
ab fab rocks i just hope they don't put any of those
bitches on from FRIENDS.
Re: Linny – linny you're a fucken dumbass cunt
how dare you compare Slut ho bag cum guzzler Paris to Patsy
you fucken twat
ugh that won't work.
Sure it might be funny, but it will never be AbFab.
It's not like we don't have funny & talented people in America so why is it so bleeding difficult for us to come up with good & original shows or movies?
I mean, why do I keep reading about us making-over foreign films or tv shows?
Leave well enough alone and do something original!!!