This actually begs for both options, airing the original spanish series, as an insight into Spanish culture and history, and also developing alternate versions of the Time Ministry for UK, France, Germany, Italy and so on. I guess it'll be more limited in the US, as the pre-colonial time is quite unknown all together, while the range in Spain is by a whole millenium and they just don't use the roman times, as they would be forced to write and talk in latin. But, while not perfect, one of the most interesting tv series airing worldwide, right now, completely unpredictable and multilayered, and playful.
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eljuma_1
8 years ago
I guess it'll be more limited in the US, as the pre-colonial time is quite unknown all together, while the range in Spain is by a whole millenium and they just don't use the roman times, as they would be forced to write and talk in latin.
Doing an American version would be rather easy. Instead of being in Spain, the doors would be in the US, obviously, and the origins of the Ministry would be at the beginning of US history (who wants to bet the time doors were discovered by Benjamin Franklin? they practically beg him for it, same as the Minist... err <<Department of Time>> being his idea). The first US agents would be preserving colonial history because changing anything could result in the US not becoming a nation at all. Missions could be as early as the 1580s (Roanoke colony) and still be in English. The mother series rarely goes beyond the 16th century anyway. The pilot episode in particular would be very easy to remake in the American Revolution.
Not that most American remakes of foreign series tend to be very faithful. I could see them covering the whole of world history and just have the agents use "universal translators" as in Star Trek.
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