WAIT 2 British actors staring in a American cop show
Have this ever been done before.
share"The Wire" had Dominic West, Idris Elba, and Aidan Gillen.
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Actually its a british cop show....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0788121/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
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I would swear I saw the British version some where. The plot seems very familiar. I can't for the life of me remember where. It's usually Amazon, Netflix or Hulu that I watch such things. Though, it could have been BBC America.
"I am allowed to think everyone is stupid for 10 minutes."-- Randy Susan Meyers
This isn't a British show. It's an American show. It doesn't matter what it's based off of.
shareHmmm...are you being facetious? It's been done quite a lot. Though, what seems special is that the British actor starring in the American version also starred in the British version as the same character.
"I am allowed to think everyone is stupid for 10 minutes."-- Randy Susan Meyers
the British version as the same character. weird
I will watch the Brit vision before I view out the American one, I hate it when American do Europe remake of tv shows, it's always a 50/50 chance they failed, AMC is really gambling with their money.
The Bridge about El Paso/Juarez is a remake of a Danish tv series about the bridge between Denmark and Sweden with the location and names changed.
As for Mark Strong "the Brit". His real name is Marco Giuseppe Salussolia.His father is Italian and his mother is Austrian.
Reminds me of when a favorite French actor of mine Yves Montand, turned out to be Ivo Livi, an Italian.
Three's company and All in the family were much more funnier than the English Tv shows they were based on. It's only the premise of the shows that they bring over not the scripts so I wouldn't worry.
shareAs far as I'm concerned, the British are VERY welcome here. I enjoy seeing the tall, bald head man.
shareWhat are they staring at, exactly? :) I'll assume you meant "starring".
OK, (critically-acclaimed) US TV shows with Brits:
Homeland: Damian Lewis
Band of Brothers: Damian Lewis, lots of other characters too, including ones played by Dexter Fletcher, Tom Hardy, Simon Pegg and Michael Fassbender to name a few.
Game of Thrones: almost the entire cast is from the British Isles.
The Wire: as mentioned above, two main characters were played by Idris Elba and Dominic West.
House: eponymous character is played by Hugh Laurie.
Hannibal: Will is played by Hugh Dancy; Eddie Izzard appears in some episodes.
Rome: again, pretty much the entire cast was British/from the British Isles.
The Borgias: wall to wall Brits.
Nurse Jackie: Eve Best.
Boardwalk Empire: Stephen Graham plays Al Capone, Kelly MacDonald plays Margaret, Jack Huston plays Richard Harrow, Charlie Cox plays Owen Slater, Anatol Yusuf plays Meyer Lansky, and so on.
Deadwood: Ian McShane played Al Swearengen.
Dexter: Charlotte Rampling, Johnny Lee Miller, Ray Stevenson, and Jaime Murray have all featured.
The Walking Dead: the protagonist is played by Andrew Lincoln, the Governor was/is played by David Morrissey.
Lie To Me: Tim Roth, obviously.
Not on the air anymore, but you could of course add Patrick Stewart in Star Trek; Flash Forward had Joseph Fiennes and Jack Davenport.
There are lots more, but that should do for now!
You forgot Stephen Moyer in True Blood by the way. And of course Elementary's Jonny Lee Miller (Angelina's ex but he kind of gives the game away as he doesn't do an American accent)and also Alex Kingston from ER and so on.
When they said the British were coming they weren't kidding my American chums.