{"id":10361,"date":"2007-02-06T19:38:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T02:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/06\/i-dont-hold-out-much-hope-for-this.html"},"modified":"2007-02-06T19:38:51","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T02:38:51","slug":"i_dont_hold_out_much_hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/i_dont_hold_out_much_hope.html","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t hold out much hope for this"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Vicar of Dibley\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/Vicar_of_Dibley_DVD.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Former Cheers actress Kirstie Alley is to play the lead role in a US version of hit BBC comedy <em>The Vicar of Dibley<\/em>. Alley, 56, will star as a preacher who returns to the small town where she grew up as a teenage rebel. The Fox TV network will make a pilot of <em>The Minister of Divine<\/em> &#8211; co-produced by Vicar of Dibley creator Richard Curtis &#8211; before deciding on a full series. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vicar_of_dibley\" target=\"_blank\">TVoD<\/a> is a faboo British comedy, driven by both the incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0294067\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dawn French<\/a> and an excellent ensemble cast. It&#8217;s witty, raucous, charming, ribald, and tweaks small towns, religion, conservatism, the battle of the sexes, pop culture, and &#8212; well, it was just brilliant. It also was quintessentially British. <\/p>\n<p>How is it likely to fare in translation? I&#8217;m not a real fan of Kirstie Alley, and while I&#8217;m pleased that Richard Curtis is &#8220;co-producing&#8221; the American version, the fact that it&#8217;s being piloted on Fox makes me even less optimistic. And given the generally awful fate of most Brit-to-US TV translations of the past decade or so, I think I&#8217;ll just stick with my beloved DVDs of the original. <\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderdude.com\/2007\/02\/ummmyeah.html\" target=\"_blank\">BD<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cheers actress Kirstie Alley is to play the lead role in a US version of hit BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley. 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