Top Team or Time Gear
Jul. 19th, 2009 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysThere is now Time Team America. That can't be a good thing right? I mean look at Top Gear - Australia - regardless of how well done it might be, because it was trying the be the same as the original, it was always going to suffer by comparison.
But the American version of Time Team is a different beast. It has the same basic theme - a well equipped team doing a 3 day dig. But the detail of the implementation is quite a bit different. It has its own character and style. Plus, because it is a PBS show, it isn't as rabidly over the top as you might fear. So quite a pleasant surprise really.
On the other hand, there is no Baldrick - or the rest of the well known characters from the Brit show. It took the original edition years to build up the character of the show. I wonder if the American edition can build up the same character - perhaps I'll come back in a few years to check it out.
But the American version of Time Team is a different beast. It has the same basic theme - a well equipped team doing a 3 day dig. But the detail of the implementation is quite a bit different. It has its own character and style. Plus, because it is a PBS show, it isn't as rabidly over the top as you might fear. So quite a pleasant surprise really.
On the other hand, there is no Baldrick - or the rest of the well known characters from the Brit show. It took the original edition years to build up the character of the show. I wonder if the American edition can build up the same character - perhaps I'll come back in a few years to check it out.