chas@ihuxe.UUCP (Charles Lambert) (02/27/85)
> ... As far as > situation comedies (whatever *they* are!) go, The Fall and Rise of Reginald > Perrin is running neck-a-neck with Fawlty Towers as the best of them all. > ... > Which makes it all the more befuddling as to why American TV couldn't usurp > the idea to make a decent American TV series out of it. Simple answer: it's not full of plastic-faced cuties with smiles like a razor-slash in a cushion, insipid male hunks or nauseously wise brats all mincing their way through some grossly inflated portrayal of utter inanity. > (Actually it's not befuddling at all. Americans want completely different > things from TV than the British do. And, unfortunately, that's all too often > what we get...) More optimistically, the popularity of PBS, Channel 66 (Chicago), and the A&E cable channel argues otherwise. Why, oh why, can't the mush-brains in the broadcast networks be conviced of this? Charlie @ the Death Star, IL. USA