Jul 22, 2026 · 50 min · 12 segments
What happens when Hollywood tries to remake one of Britain's most chaotic sitcoms? It goes about as well as you'd expect... This week we're diving into the long-forgotten American pilot based on…
There's
been a few.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The IT ground.
Yeah.
Ooh,
yeah.
Isn't the issue that they try to make it so you have characters that are sexy? Well, that's the same with this, isn't it? Yeah.
Yeah.
Because Lister was attractive.
And the whole
point is that he's not supposed to be.
Yeah, the cat was female and also attractive.
It doesn't work because it's supposed to be losers in space.
But I hate to talk about that, although we will do at some point, because I watched...
Again, it's one of those things you go, ooh, that's worth watching, just as a morbid curiosity.
That's what I've said about this.
It's like, you know it's not going to be great, but you're going to watch it anyway.
You need to satisfy your need to see it.
Just for the
completionist aspect of everything.
And it bad.
I'm going to say it now.
There's
been a few.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The IT ground.
Yeah.
Ooh,
yeah.
Isn't the issue that they try to make it so you have characters that are sexy? Well, that's the same with this, isn't it? Yeah.
Yeah.
Because Lister was attractive.
And the whole
point is that he's not supposed to be.
Yeah, the cat was female and also attractive.
It doesn't work because it's supposed to be losers in space.
But I hate to talk about that, although we will do at some point, because I watched...
Again, it's one of those things you go, ooh, that's worth watching, just as a morbid curiosity.
That's what I've said about this.
It's like, you know it's not going to be great, but you're going to watch it anyway.
You need to satisfy your need to see it.
Just for the
completionist aspect of everything.
And it bad.
I'm going to say it now.
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