'How I Met Your Mother' to Get a Chinese Remake
by EG
How I Met Your Mother will be remade for a Chinese audience, and it's not the only American network show that's getting a new internatioal edition. Read on for details.
Via Deadline.
How I Met Your Mother, Last Man Standing, This Is Us and Awake are getting international remakes as part of a global scripted formats drive by Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution.
The Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel-fronted comedy is being remade in China, Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing is getting remakes in India and Vietnam, while Jason Isaacs-fronted police procedural Awake has been sold into Russia and Dan Fogelman’s drama This Is Us is heading to France and Holland.
The scripted formats deals come as the Asia Television Forum kicks off in Singapore, where the Hollywood studio will be looking to secure even more local agreements.
Gina Brogi, President of Global Distribution, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, told Deadline, “There is a much greater interest from the international community to have locally-produced content and that’s winning the day when it comes to ratings. We’ve upped our game in the scripted formats arena; they’re really starting to get some traction.”
The CBS comedy, which was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, has been sold to Chinese producer New Classics Media. The company will produce 30 episodes of the format and will extend the show’s 30-minute run time to an hour for the Chinese market. The show, which ended in 2014, has previously been adapted in Russia and the Middle East.
Brogi said that she believed that the fact that How I Met Your Mother resonated with young adults would help it in China’s booming market. “China has become much more active lately with local productions; their production community has really upped their game in terms of producing their own content with their own stars and this really is a result of that,” she said.
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