Americanizing the BBC's 'Edge of Darkness'

There's an interesting article in the weekend edition of The Sunday Times in the UK.

The piece talks about the Americanization of British entertainment staples like the remake of the 1985 BBC series "Edge of Darkness" currently being filmed in Boston (with production today in Winthrop, Mass.) and starring Mel Gibson.

Graham King, Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning financial backer of "The Departed," says he had to make a few changes in the Americanized version of "Edge of Darkness," which originally featured the late Bob Peck in the '80s.

“One character asks if it was time for a cup of tea,” King tells the Sunday Times. It seems there will be no tea in the American version.

"Not in Boston, where it was thrown overboard," the UK paper jokingly adds.

King says that the Boston-based version will be less gloomy and the actors will have "better teeth."

Click here for the latest on Mel Gibson's "less gloomy" version of "Edge of Darkness."