CULTURE / RECEPTION / CONSUMPTIONS REMAKING TELEVISION SERIES: NATIONAL CULTURE AND MEDIA SYSTEM THEORY LYNGE STEGGER GEMZØE Name Lynge Stegger Gemzøe studies of format adaptation in general, tends to focus Academic centre Aalborg University, Denmark on using text-based readings of cultural similarities and E-mail address
[email protected] differences, or on explanations rooted in the media systems, such as a new channel’s profile or norms and traditions KEYWORDS in the programming interface of a particular channel or Adaptation; series; national culture; media system; country. The article examines the dominant literature and format trade; remakes. theories on the subject, illustrating that there is an ongoing debate among researchers as to which framework is more powerful and precise in accounting for format adaptation. It ABSTRACT becomes apparent that studies favouring the one approach This article explores strengths and weaknesses of greatly over the other are often comparing apples and common methods and frameworks in studying format oranges. Finally, the article aims to show how existing adaptation, primarily in television series, but with some research most often compares original and remake in their findings applicable for television entertainment formats final forms, overlooking the creation process, the dilemmas as well. The article problematises the way scholarship on of the creatives behind the transformations, and the effect transnational remakes of television series, as well as their preconceptions have on the finished results. 107 SERIES VOLUME VI, Nº 1, SUMMER 2020: 107-119 DOI https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454X/10460 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TV SERIAL NARRATIVES ISSN 2421-454X CULTURE / RECEPTION / CONSUMPTIONS > LYNGE STEGGER GEMZØE REMAKING TELEVISION SERIES: NATIONAL CULTURE AND MEDIA SYSTEM THEORY 1.