BRITISH television drama departments are institutionally incapable of having fun.
You doubt me?
Imagine for a second what BBC1 would’ve done if it had gotten its miserable, guilt-ridden hands on Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty.
They wouldn’t have been the LA Lakers, for a start.
They’d have been a netball team, and instead of the booming 1980s, viewers would have been teleported back to Windrush generation London in the 1950s, where every other scene would’ve been a gear-crunching metaphor for slavery, the evils of the British empire and blah blah blah.