{"id":576,"date":"2008-01-03T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T17:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocaman.ch\/wp\/2008\/01\/thats-it-i-quit-watching-german-tv-or-german-series\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T10:02:59","slug":"thats-it-i-quit-watching-german-tv-or-german-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocaman.ch\/wp\/2008\/01\/thats-it-i-quit-watching-german-tv-or-german-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Thats it! I quit watching German TV – Or German Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update January 19, 11:24<\/strong>
\nThe show has been canceled immediately. I think that show wasn’t even pirated enough \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"Geeks<\/a><\/p>\n

First they copy The Office (in a cheap way?) and now a friend<\/a> sent over a link to the German version of the IT-Crowd<\/a> (IMDb<\/a>, 8,9\/10 rating!!) – the best Geek & Nerd TV-Show from the UK since … since ever!<\/p>\n

“Das iTeam<\/a>” is a one-to-one copy of the British hits series. The dialogs are translated word for word. And this is something that never goes right. I will not start to “discuss” the humor.<\/p>\n

Please, don’t watch it. You better buy or (as a geek) download the episodes.<\/p>\n

The IMDb Board has a great review<\/a> (need to register\/login) of the show and I have to say the author is mostly correct:<\/p>\n

Intro: Same music, different pictures. No pixel graphics, rather mugshots of the main cast. Not very exciting but not gruesome either just yet. Gabriel (aka Moss) is shown with a metal detector (at first I thought he was vaccuum cleaning the office), and Tom (aka Roy) is seen playing with a computer mouse mobile which is new, geeky and adorable. Hey, for the record, I said something positive! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m quite sad that Bornholm describes the IT people as “one hell of a team” instead of STANDARD NERDS. Other than that, the dialogue is largely the same, sometimes translated word by word, sometimes adding half a line or leaving half a line out. I’ll only mention it when I think it makes a real change (other than just “being less funny than the original” which seems to apply to most lines). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’re 3 1\/2 minutes into the episode, including intro. At this point on Friday, it will occur to many people that it’s a good idea to switch off telly and play a board game with their family. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update January 19, 11:24 The show has been canceled immediately. I think that show wasn’t even pirated enough \ud83d\ude09 First they copy The Office (in a cheap way?) and now a friend sent over a link to the German version of the IT-Crowd (IMDb, 8,9\/10 rating!!) – the best Geek & Nerd TV-Show from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tJa-9i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocaman.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocaman.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocaman.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocaman.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocaman.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocaman.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocaman.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocaman.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocaman.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}