The show is based on a New Zealand series by the same name, and like most rehosts, is very lacking compared to the original. American screen writers are the laziest bunch of no-talent hacks on the whole planet. It goes back for DECADES and DECADES.
An early one I remember was Steptoe and Son (Sanford and Son), a later one the British “Shameless” series on which the one here on cable is based (and badly, IMO). Another great New Zealand series “Outrageous Behavior” was tried here under the same name with that chick from the Candy Man movies....bad bad bad.
A new show I gave up on after two episodes is “Resurrection” based on a French Series “The Returned”.
Anything that is good seems like it has to be a non network production, and then they only make 10 or so episodes for a year. Others like “Falling Skies” are great mostly, but it’s even longer in between seasons.
I haven’t watched ‘Resurrection’, as I didn’t care for the theme.
However, over the weekend, I was watching some TV programs I have on disk and I ran across one named ‘Babylonian Fields’ unsold pilot. I dediced to watch. I have no idea where or why I have an old copy. It is sort of the same theme as ‘Resurrection’. It was also kind of creepy.
Babylonian Fields [unsold pilot] part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX_8VJkXapg
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I do like to watch pilots for TV programs. It is interesting to see what was ‘sold’ to the networks and the changes from the original concepts. Some are almost identical but maybe some changes in actors; others are very different from the pilot.