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<blockquote data-quote="AndyB2008" data-source="post: 310176" data-attributes="member: 26097">ABC&#039;s meddling is why [USER=606]@pete lashmar[/USER] the David Bilborough murder in Cracker had to be written differently for the US version.Based on the original logic, R Lee Ermey was to be killed off, as his Lt Fry was the David Bilborough character, and hence why Ermey was contracted short term to begin with. ABC (and/or Rob Pastorelli) baulked at it, so Fry&#039;s exit was written another way. Fry moved to a new position in the LAPD, and Josh Lucas&#039;s Monroe Macy (the American version of Ricky Tomlinson&#039;s Charlie Wise) replaced him.The Bilborough death (originally intended for Ermey) was written instead for Angela Featherstone &#039;s character Hannah Tyler, the US version of Geraldine Somerville&#039;s character Jane Panhaligon.&nbsp; In turn, the Robert Carlyle character became a woman to facilitate the change.The reason I think mainly was Disney had just taken over ABC, and Ermey had just provided a voice for a role in Toy Story.&nbsp; Given that (something Christopher Eccleston didn&#039;t have), ABC couldn&#039;t be seen to upset the younger audience who remembered him from Toy Story and who may have seen the US Cracker.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AndyB2008, post: 310176, member: 26097"] ABC's meddling is why [USER=606]@pete lashmar[/USER] the David Bilborough murder in Cracker had to be written differently for the US version. Based on the original logic, R Lee Ermey was to be killed off, as his Lt Fry was the David Bilborough character, and hence why Ermey was contracted short term to begin with. ABC (and/or Rob Pastorelli) baulked at it, so Fry's exit was written another way. Fry moved to a new position in the LAPD, and Josh Lucas's Monroe Macy (the American version of Ricky Tomlinson's Charlie Wise) replaced him. The Bilborough death (originally intended for Ermey) was written instead for Angela Featherstone 's character Hannah Tyler, the US version of Geraldine Somerville's character Jane Panhaligon. In turn, the Robert Carlyle character became a woman to facilitate the change. The reason I think mainly was Disney had just taken over ABC, and Ermey had just provided a voice for a role in Toy Story. Given that (something Christopher Eccleston didn't have), ABC couldn't be seen to upset the younger audience who remembered him from Toy Story and who may have seen the US Cracker. [/QUOTE]

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