hey plurk: a threat

he got tired of ruining british culture and now he's coming for us

...it's really not necessary, though.

(Neither are a lot of Americanised versions of British shows, to be fair.)

I guess if we made The Royals then turnabout's fair play

It... sounds like it might be about the British government instead?

would you even call it the west wing

I do not think, even with Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II, the British government could be more of a trashfire than American

bet

what???

I mean, come on, just in the past couple years you've got

also, I'm pretty sure British Television has those kinds of shows already

-political parties during COVID
-can't keep a prime minister for longer than a head of lettuce
-queens dying
-leaving the EU and all of the tories who voted for it having NO idea what it actually meant for them

you're telling me no one's done a take on it for primetime yet?

the question is would a show actually tackle that, or would it be glorified government propaganda

it would depend on the channel host, at that point

or the showrunner, really

well. we know the showrunner in this case

It would be a comedy, but not on purpose

So, pretty true to life I guess

THis is like the inverse of House of Cards, a show about UK government being remade to be about the US government while changing just few enough details that the premis is immediately nonsense

IT IS DEFINITELY NOT NECESSARY