The spin-off, which would have focused on Suttie's character Dobby and her female flatmate, was in development with producer Izzy Mant and went as far as Suttie trying out scenes with other actors, including fellow stand-up Josie Long, before the idea was abandoned. Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong began writing a female version of the Channel 4 sitcom, Isy Suttie has confirmed. Image shows from L to R: Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell), Dobby (Isy Suttie), Jeremy Usbourne (Robert Webb). And, not to be dramatic or anything, if they cast Amy Schumer as Jez, I’m going to shoot myself.Peep Show. For now, I would just like to say it all sounds like a very bad idea. I hope that turns out to be case I hope this article haunts me for ever. In a world where there are shows such as Fleabag, Killing Eve and The Bisexual, creating a Peep Show starring a Jezzica and Markgret feels a little retrograde.īut it is early days yet and there is every chance I will be proved wrong and the Peep Show reboot will be brilliant. While there is still a long way to go before TV is truly diverse, there has been an encouraging increase in new voices and nontraditional female roles on the small screen. You get it by letting talented women such as Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Desiree Akhavan, Issa Rae, and Michaela Coel develop their own stories. After all, you do not get more diverse television by gender-flipping old scripts: you get it by giving new opportunities to a greater range of people. It certainly does not seem like the victory for diversity that Bain is positioning it as. In the case of Peep Show, which will be unfamiliar to most Americans, it just seems unnecessary. Sometimes, however, it feels patronising and gimmicky. Sometimes, as with Doctor Who, gender-swapping is a really effective way of challenging stereotypes and shaking up male-dominated franchises. That sort of chemistry is incredibly hard to replicate.įrom Ghostbusters to Doctor Who to Ocean’s 8, gender-flipped remakes are all the rage at the moment. What made that so good was the same thing that made Peep Show good: the comedic chemistry between the two leads. Americans, for all their faults, are perfectly capable of writing original shows with funny, dysfunctional female leads – just look at Broad City. However, I do not understand the need for a US gender-swapped Peep Show. Look, I’m all for having more female losers on TV: it is important to see yourself represented on screen. “I can’t wait to find out what sick and twisted bullshit goes on inside the minds of a pair of female losers,” Bain enthused in his piece, which was about the importance of diversity in comedy. To be fair, however, there is something very different about this latest effort: the leads will be women. Somehow, the British nihilism always seems to get lost in translation and the remake falls apart. Fox made a ( highly embarrassing) pilot in 2005 Spike TV gave it a shot in 2008 Starz tried in 2016. This, by the way, isn’t the first attempt at adapting Peep Show for a stateside audience – it’s the fourth. Sam Bain, co-creator of the original Bafta-wining sitcom, broke the news in a recent article he wrote for the Guardian, revealing that the new version will be developed by Portlandia writer Karey Dornetto for the FX network. After rebooting and ruining a slew of beloved British TV shows (I am still traumatised by the way they mangled Skins and The Inbetweeners), they have decided to remake Peep Show. I regret to inform you that the Americans are at it again.
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