Thumbs-down for comedy
By
TONY VERDON,
London; correspondent The three major United States television networks have dismised proposals to produce an American version of “Yes, Prime Minister.’’ !j The Americans have turned down the show, retitled “All in Favour.” because they do not think it is particularly funny. Plans I'to produce an American version of the long-running 8.8. C. com-
edy were promoted by British television producer Sarah Lawson, wife of the head of Channel Four, Michael Grade. She runs a television and film production company in association with a Californian corporation, Taft Entertainment. “Jonathan Lynn and a colleague wrote a script for us, and we asked them to go to Washington and research how it could be
done,” she told Nigel Dempster as reported in th[e "Daily Mail.” [“We’ve now [ put the idea up, but all three networks have turned it down. Obviously it is disappointing.” , Jonathan Lynn is one of trie creators of the British series, said to i be the favourite television programme of the . British Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher.
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