Comment on ABC journalists to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 2 weeks agoThe ABC in Australia was the original ABC before the Americans copied us. Kind of like the Office.
Comment on ABC journalists to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 2 weeks agoThe ABC in Australia was the original ABC before the Americans copied us. Kind of like the Office.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Er… The Office was from the UK. The Aus version is a spinoff of that, as are the French, Czech, Brazilian, American, Swedish, South African, […] versions.
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I meant that Americans think their copy is the original in both cases. I only really know the UK office. I forgot we even had an Aussie spin off tbh. It was in the news for one week and then forgotten about.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, like the rest of the spinoffs I’ve seen (very much US included to be clear here) it wasn’t… very… good.
But you’re strawmanning this: NBC regularly aired the entire UK series in the lulls between Office (American) episodes before they lost the rights. Maybe some people think that it was the OG now, but they were not subtle about it at the start (possibly because Gervais is an attention whore). These days I can’t honestly think of anyone I’ve encountered who cares about that show enough to still remember it, yet is somehow unaware of the UK version. Even the subreddit is explicit about it: