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I had imagined that the American version of Iron Chef (if you don't know what it is, see the summary from a year ago) wouldn't be anywhere near as good as the Japanese one - they have a reputation for messing up Japanese remakes. But it's nice to see that the spirit has remained, with the host being introduced as he comes into the studio doing backflips and somersaults for about fifty yards. And the contest is always started by him bellowing something I can't understand in Japanese and looking like he's about to fight off Godzilla.
It got me thinking about what a British version would be like, but I can't imagine the invincible men of culinary skills being Anthony Worrall-Thompson, Ainsley Harriot, Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver. Although Gordon Ramsay would be disappointingly appropriate.
Actually I've been missing British TV a surprising amount despite hardly ever watching it (especially now that Top Gear has been delayed indefinitely) and have taken to watching BBC America occasionally for comfort. Whose Line Is It Anyway, which I hadn't actually seen before, is on most nights. It includes Colin Mochrie, which is quite surreal when pretty much all I've seen of him before is him battling a plastic Jesus with space leprechauns and the like.
And finally, I downloaded The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk the other week. It was the first properly mad martial arts film that I ever saw. Unfortunately it's turned out that the version I have has been dubbed into a slightly different East Asian language from the one it was originally recorded in, without subtitles, so it makes even less sense to me than it ever did before.
It got me thinking about what a British version would be like, but I can't imagine the invincible men of culinary skills being Anthony Worrall-Thompson, Ainsley Harriot, Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver. Although Gordon Ramsay would be disappointingly appropriate.
Actually I've been missing British TV a surprising amount despite hardly ever watching it (especially now that Top Gear has been delayed indefinitely) and have taken to watching BBC America occasionally for comfort. Whose Line Is It Anyway, which I hadn't actually seen before, is on most nights. It includes Colin Mochrie, which is quite surreal when pretty much all I've seen of him before is him battling a plastic Jesus with space leprechauns and the like.
And finally, I downloaded The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk the other week. It was the first properly mad martial arts film that I ever saw. Unfortunately it's turned out that the version I have has been dubbed into a slightly different East Asian language from the one it was originally recorded in, without subtitles, so it makes even less sense to me than it ever did before.
