American audiences please boycott this

Just how would the American education system teach a child to pick up words spoken with a British accent? Im not sure which area of study would teach them to interpret a thick, limey accent.

On the grounds of a remake, I say good luck to it. America has always remade stuff from Britain and other countries, sometimes by the same director.

I still have the original and you guys will have your version. I don't like the original too much tho.

[spider] Bring back the old Emoticons! [sad5]

Thanks, and a very good point.
I was drawn to David Tennant being in a new television series, but had not realized this was an "American" version of Broadchurch before viewing the first episode.

I had a similar reaction. Gracepoint is a knock-off of an excellent original.
What was the point of creating this series, especially since, from what I saw in episode one, it's nearly the same, line-for-line, scene-for-scene? What seems sadder is the creators of the original being so seduced by the money thrown at them by the studios to produce it.

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Those in studio marketing think Americans are isolated and they only like what is familiar. They also think Americans can't read subtitles or they just can't read. This part may be true. Yes, there are dialects and some are difficult, and then there is the slang. But turn on the close caption and it's a breeze. Remaking something usually doesn't have the same zing as the original. Studios are looking at it from a business point of view, not a creative one.

I didn't understand remaking Broadchurch because it was so available to American audiences. And then to take the lead actor and have him do the same role only with an American accent, well, it's just ludicrous.

There are many foreign movies that this has happened, and in some cases you can't get a hold of the foreign version because they don't market it anywhere in the US and if it's a DVD, it's in a regional format with no English subtitles. One that comes to mind is the horrible Tourist with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. The original was a French movie called Anthony Zimmer and it was so much better, but you can't see it anywhere. I think the US does this so that they can make the American version - relying on the US to not be able to see the original story thereby making it "new."

I'll agree with you on this. There's really no need to re-make a movie or series for the US that's already been done in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, etc, where it's in English. In my opinion it's foolish and unnecessary.

But I'm not a fan of sub-titles, so I have no problem with re-makes that are done from foreign-language films, that a lot of us wouldn't be seeing, (because they're not in English).

Has Britain ever remade any American shows?

I have to agree with the sentiment, although it did make me want to watch Broadchurch. I watched Gracepoint first just because it was claimed to be the "American version". It's actually more of a separate show than an American version though. I'm only 4 episodes into Broadchurch and it's already superior. I'm also looking forward to an ending that's not complete crap. Gracepoint's twist was overly contrived and not believable.

They didn't need to make the dad a pedophile in Gracepoint. It would have been believable for him to just have more in common with someone else's son than his own, and feel guilty about not spending time with his own son. But I suppose they thought that wouldn't have been shocking enough. However, the fact that it was shocking doesn't make up for it not being believable.

So I would say that Gracepoint should be taken as a completely different show, and not a remake or replacement of Broadchurch. Broadchurch is obviously superior, but sometimes I do feel like I benefited from watching Gracepoint first. It's kind of like The Office. The US version started similar to the original UK version, but the US version became its own show. It was a lot easier to get into the UK version after I already saw and liked the US version.