Speaking of TV, over Christmas I saw an episode of “Camilo e filho”, a Portuguese (from Portugal) scene-for-scene remake of Steptoe and Son, except with much much lower production values and totally lacking anything that was good about the original. It really was an identical clone, right down to the skeleton in the living room, and the British flag in the corner, which had become a Portuguese flag.

Has there ever been a remake of anything that didn’t utterly suck the life out of the original?

The BBC is completely broken as a branch of the government, but it consistently makes the worlds’ best TV by an astronomical margin.