A Chinese TV station has announced plans to make a domestic version of US hit series ‘Ugly Betty’ – itself a version of the Columbian original Yo Soy Betty, La Fea, or ‘I am Betty, The Ugly One’.
The Chinese version will be shown on Hunan Satellite TV, and will be called ‘Invincible Ugly Woman’.
TV industry leaders on both sides of the Atlantic are rushing to sell other Western hits to Chinese producers. ‘Doctor Who’ – offered to China as ‘Anonymous Heroic Surgeon’ – was originally based on an Albanian series called ‘Guess The Consultant’s Name’, while ‘Coronation Street’ becomes ‘Meaningless Reactionary Imperialist Festival Residential District’ and ‘Wire In The Blood’ translates as ‘Supreme Aortic Metal Filament Contamination’. Chinese plans for remaking ‘Lost’ have been shelved, however, as all Chinese airlines have a 100% safety record and anyone saying otherwise is a subversive criminal element in need of immediate re-education.
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