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NBC to remake Prime Suspect

Next on America's "to do" list: a local version of Lynda LaPlante's ripping Prime Suspect series.

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hmRemakes are all the rage in the US right now, though they aren’t necessarily adapted well.

Now NBC wants its own Prime Suspect.

It follows MTV’s plans to adapt Skins.

The Lynda LaPlante series, starring Helen Mirren, remains one of the most knockout franchises the UK has delivered in the crime genre.

Hank Steinberg (creator of Without a Trace, The Nine) will adapt the two hour pilot.

The deal between NBC and ITV Studios includes two more pilot commitments of ITV formats over the next two years. No doubt ITV is making more use of its library of titles given it has been in economic meltdown.

“We want to carefully choose a couple of iconic titles this year to reinvent, and our intention is to create another classic television show from this brilliant original format,” NBC’s Angela Bromstad said.

“Hank Steinberg was key in helping us secure this project, and we are incredibly excited about this modern vision for the show.”

Modern? How about they just get the original scripts and cross out the word London, put in the word Chicago and shoot that?

Source: Variety

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  1. The headline should read “ITV sell Prime Suspect for American Remake,” the point being that none of these remakes could ever be made if the rights were not sold for money. It is the dream of thousands of international producers to sell their rights to the States, because that’s where the money is. So all this chastisement of Americans for remaking shows is one-sided.

    As for original content, I think the US has created 90% of the world class content that is out there. Otherwise, what is all this illegal downloading about?

  2. Ditto with all previous comments ” Oh no” Helen Mirren made the series work.

    I’ve been watching Law and Order UK (not rating very well) and I like it more than the US version…..Why, you may enquire? ….reply ‘The Brits have better actors’ !! thus making the plots more believable.

  5. is the US so totally and uttely uncapable of coming up with new movie / tv ideas that so much material has to be sequals or “reboots” or remakes?

    do they really have such little imaginations?

    Copying/rebooting/remaking existing series that exist from abroad is just like outsourcing – “hmmmm, that prime suspect did okay – Let’s buy it and make it better!”

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