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Here’s a billboard that asks “What’s paparazzi?” “Duh, pizza topping.”

In Los Angeles, buses carry large Kath and Kim ads, the monstrous West Hollywood shopping mall, the Beverly Centre, features 30m tall billboards, while an intersection on iconic Sunset Blvd has three billboards on opposing corners.

Meanwhile an article on how Americans translate international formats in The NY Times indicates how writer Michelle Nader approached the adaptation of Kath & Kim.

Nader said she had watched all four seasons of the original. “I really, really studied it,” she said. “I feel like it’s in my cellular memory.”

But, she added, “I’m not doing that show.” The process has proved more difficult than she expected, she said: “This is a trickier undertaking than most people think.”

After another writer tried and failed to translate the series, she said, her breakthrough came when she realised, “I had to make it my own.”

There is also more on the adjustment to the role, or non-role, of ‘Sharon.’ The new “gay guy role” (Tony Yalda) which apparently substitutes for Sharon is likely to be a supporting role -not present in either of the two pilots shot by NBC.

Notes the NY Times: Ms. Nader has dropped one major character from the original, eliminated the lower-class accents and reset the central relationship to something closer to home. “What opened it up for me was making it about my own life, myself and my mother.”

Meanwhile, for those wanting to get a look at the actor Tony Yalda, he has a small role in the movie American Dreamz this Friday night on TEN as ‘Iqbal Riza’.

Source: NYTimes, AAP