John - I think it's to bad that in this country we have to take another nations product and make it our own. John - It's sad that the US entertainment has to take successful, hallmark properties from other countries and redo them. That they're not good enough in original incarnation to play here. Who suffered because of this attitude. Warren - What John said is true.
People have trouble making new tv and movies.
But a lot of science fiction is American, and they've gotten stuff from us, too. Look at how many old tv shows become movies. and look at how hard it is to pitch any original show or movie. The suits always want to know that some product, tv show or movie, wants to know what it will be like. They don't want to be first. They're in a race to be second.