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To me, bastardization is taking a great film/show and "revising" it for American audiences. An excellent example is the British show "Coupling" on BBCA. That is one of the funniest shows I've ever seen on a television set, but NBC is now making their own version for the fall season. The previews I've seen are horrible, and I can't imagine why we need to mess with a show that had so much right to begin with. In the past we've seen awful revisions such as the Fawlty Towers version with Bea Arthur (I can't even remember the name, it was so bad). We should just enjoy the originals instead of messing with them. If they are bad to begin with we should just do something different anyway.
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