Well, as long as they still show the UK Top Gear, you get two versions. Doesn't seem too bad to me! ;-) Besides, with something like that, I could see them wanting to focus on US-specific tech/cars, which has a certain logic.
Drama is worse, because while it sometimes works, there is an indefinable thing about the chemistry of writers/actors/directors etc that is what makes it come off or fail, and that can't be reproduced. Sometimes you get a cool alternative, though.
And some people are funny about accents - I've actually seen comments from Americans in various places complaining about not wanting to watch British stuff because they can't understand our accent. (To which I want to say, which accent? Because there's a world of difference between many of them!) And here in the UK while I don't think I've ever heard anyone complaining about incomprehnsible US accents as a rule, I did have someone tell me they couldn't watch Torchwood because it was too Welsh. (There is a weird and rabid anti-Welsh thing that some English people still have. I don't get it because I come from Somerset where we could see Wales across the channel, and we all had Welsh relatives.) And the Glasgow accent is largely assumed to be unintelligable, as is a broad, southern Irish accent... And some people don't understand regional accents and really wish everyone would talk in RP what like they used to. :-)
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Drama is worse, because while it sometimes works, there is an indefinable thing about the chemistry of writers/actors/directors etc that is what makes it come off or fail, and that can't be reproduced. Sometimes you get a cool alternative, though.
And some people are funny about accents - I've actually seen comments from Americans in various places complaining about not wanting to watch British stuff because they can't understand our accent. (To which I want to say, which accent? Because there's a world of difference between many of them!) And here in the UK while I don't think I've ever heard anyone complaining about incomprehnsible US accents as a rule, I did have someone tell me they couldn't watch Torchwood because it was too Welsh. (There is a weird and rabid anti-Welsh thing that some English people still have. I don't get it because I come from Somerset where we could see Wales across the channel, and we all had Welsh relatives.) And the Glasgow accent is largely assumed to be unintelligable, as is a broad, southern Irish accent... And some people don't understand regional accents and really wish everyone would talk in RP what like they used to. :-)
*sigh*