Olly/Owen’s editor still threatened him with castration, but phrased it in a more gentle “he’ll be singing at least another octave higher” manner. 7 … I put it that way because in Broadchurch his name is DI Alec Hardy and in Gracepoint he is Detective Emmett Carver, but essentially it is the same role. In Gracepoint , Ellie and her son Tom have more of a heart to heart over Danny’s death. Speaking with Hypable and other reporters on Tuesday, Tennant admitted that while the Gracepoint and Broadchurch scripts are similar, he had an easy time keeping the stories separate. But there is one thing that Gracepoint did that Broadchurch couldn’t quite manage – it stuck the landing. When the same happens in Gracepoint, and Anna Gunn’s Ellie Miller says “I’m a cop”, Carver responds with a disbelieving “Seriously?”. “Gracepoint,” like “Broadchurch,” follows the events of a town in crisis after the mysterious and heartbreaking murder of a young boy. Underneath all that in the Broadchurch series opener, he doesn’t seem to be a cruel or unsympathetic man. It also shows a much stronger and deeper resolution about what happens when the truth comes out. “I mean, who teaches these people?”, she joked to her colleague. Chris Chibnall’s Broadchurch script accurately observed the UK’s national obsession with the weather, and reflected it accordingly. When Danny tried to flee Joe after his advances, Tom waved an oar between them to keep his father from hurting his friend. Instead of a newsagents and Sea Brigade, local loner Jack (Nick Nolte in Gracepoint, David Bradley in Broadchurch) runs a kayak hire shop for tourists and a Wildlife Group with responsibility for tracking local fauna. If the culprit has changed from the original, surely that puts Gracepoint’s women under suspicion, too…. The final Gracepoint / Broadchurch comparison thread for those who have seen both shows. So far, he’s the main perp I’ve got fingered. There was never going to be a happy ending to Gracepoint, Fox's remake of British crime drama Broadchurch. Just before that moment in Broadchurch, as Hardy is approaching the body on the beach, he’s clearly struggling but encourages himself to go forward with a frustrated “come on”. The biggest difference, according to Fox executives, is a different ending. Upon first meeting Det. I love David Tennant and was an avid watcher of Broadchurch when it aired in the UK, so when I heard they were making an American version called Gracepoint, I was non-too happy. That could not be more different from the way we left Broadchurch —even though there are many similarities in their endings. That said, there are a few points of difference between the two shows, and for the nerdier fans amongst us, here are the ones we spotted…. Almost identical as they are, we look at what’s actually been changed between episode 1 of Broadchurch and US adaptation, Gracepoint…. To that end, Chibnall wants to … James Strong, director of the majority of the original series, directed several episodes of Fox's adaptation. Why keep David Tennant in the same part? She was one of the only sour cast notes in Broadchurch, one scene she kept glancing down inexplicably at the counter she was behind. Right at the end, flipping his tail, suspiciously. There was none of that in the Gracepoint opener, which was a considerably cleaner-mouthed affair. Gracepoint is the American remake of British show Broadchurch. “Beautiful weather eh?”, Yeah, sunshine and showers, they reckon”. And be our Facebook chum here. Also, has Susan Wright swapped dogs? Though that may sound obvious, producer Dan Futterman talked specifically about the changes they're making: "We … The ending was different! Should I just jump into s.2 of Broadchurch? Then I realized that she was surreptitiously reading her lines. If US network TV was squeamish about that, it makes you wonder what else has had to change…, David Tennant has told press that he doesn’t know the resolution to Gracepoint, the ending having been changed from that of Broadchurch. My biggest issue with Gracepoint is that it’s the same as Broadchurch. Australian actor Jacki Weaver plays the enigmatic Susan Wright in Gracepoint, the role taken by Pauline Quirke in the original version. Especially because, with soggy ratings of about 3.5 million per episode, Fox isn’t going to make a second season. Olivia Colman’s performance broke our hearts in the dramatic Broadchurch finale last year, but writers have given a different ending to US remake Gracepoint. From the peeling, ironic “Love thy neighbour” poster to that slo-mo sports day shot of a poignantly hula-hooping child, so far Gracepoint has taken everything Broadchurch had and made no creative decisions of its own. And now that I’m going to pretend it had the bravura finale of the American version, well, now it’s just about perfect. That has to contravene road safety. There are 10 instalments of Gracepoint compared to Broadchurch's eight, so who knows how the show will veer off and change direction. Without our ahem, proud, tradition of the tabloid red tops in the US, will Broadchurch’s political stance on the press be present in Gracepoint? Gracepoint is deliberate, but not slow. It keeps ringing, and the series ends. She spent the whole season trying to find the truth and, now that she has it, she’s the one who is covering up crimes. Instead of the opening bars of the atmospheric Broadchurch theme song, So Close, seconds after Gracepoint had finished we heard a marketing call-to-arms: “Who killed Danny? Why remake it? Time will tell. 5 years ago. Episode 1 of Thoughts From a TV Geek! (see above). My least favorite part of Broadchurch was always the ending. “He’s a little shit” said Ellie of nephew Olly after he prematurely leaked the name of the victim in Broadchurch’s first episode. It has been stated that although much of Gracepoint will follow the story of Broadchurch, the final outcome will be different, along with some of the plot-twists along the way, especially around Episode 7 . It’s affecting, but not forceful. Go to suspecteveryone.com and join the investigation” (website displays a running tally of which characters visitors to the site suspect killed Danny in percentages, automatically posting their vote to Facebook) followed by a trail for Gotham. The new ending also means that Ellie is the one who really solves the crime, not Carver, making her into the hero that we always knew she was. At first I was furious, thinking about the scathing article I was going to write against Gracepoint writers Anya Epstein and Dan Futterman and how they said the ending was going to be different, but they lied. But now that I saw the finale of Gracepoint, is it the same murderer in s.1 of Broadchurch? He’s abrasive, emotionally closed-off, and, as mentioned, a man capable of making you want to piss in a cup and throw it at him. Thanks to the absence of Mr Whippy, the scene misses a little of Broadchurch’s local flavour and its winning combination of light-heartedness with emotional wretchedness. Warning: contains spoilers for the first episodes of Broadchurch and Gracepoint. Reilly, still running Fox in May, was the first to announce that the ending to Gracepoint would be different from that of Broadchurch. (Meanwhile, BBC America announced today Broadchurch’s second season will air Stateside starting 4 February.). Carver (Tennant) brings him into the station and Joe confesses to their meetings. We find out that Joe (Josh Hamilton) is in possession of Danny’s missing cell phone, meaning that he’s the killer. His punishment for carrying on with a young boy without her knowing is that he has to serve time for that boy’s murder so that her son, the real culprit, stays safe. Danny mistakenly ran into the oar, braining and killing himself. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. He calls Ellie in a huff while stalking off in the night. Now I'm glad I watched The end of Gracepoint so I can post here. Usually American shows seek to snuff out any ambiguity, so it’s nice to finally have a show that is actually courting it. She sees the phone and doesn’t answer it. But the killer could be anyone — including, the producers say, someone other than the killer in Broadchurch. Finally, during the police station briefing scene after the body is discovered, Carver brusquely cuts Ellie’s account of Danny’s parents’ marriage off short (Hardy doesn’t), creating more visible friction between the pair. With the same story, characters, scenes, dialogue, male lead and screenwriter, episode one of Fox’s Gracepoint is no fuzzy “inspired by” adaptation, but a shot-for-shot impersonation of the Broadchurch opener. The few slight changes to Emmett Carver’s dialogue in Gracepoint however, push him over the line from grumpy to nasty, or at least they do from this side of the fence. I’m not sorry that Gracepoint didn’t perform better than it did, either in creativity or popularity. Close. Gracepoint will be different than Broadchurch. FOX’s new 10-episode series Gracepoint, adapted from the British series Broadchurch, tells the tragic story of a young boy who is murdered and the police investigation that follows.Leading that investigation is Detective Emmett Carver (David Tennant) and Detective Ellie Miller (), who soon find that the mystery will turn neighbor against neighbor in the small seaside town. Finding out Joe Miller, Ellie’s husband, strangled 11-year-old Danny after the two had been having secret meetings to “hug” just seemed so out of the blue and it was never quite fully explained. “I … Gracepoint , which was made by the same people as Broadchurch , is exactly the same as the original, with the exception of who the murderer is. We’ll have to wait to see if Anna Gunn’s character will follow in Olivia Colman’s footsteps and promise to piss in a cup and throw it at David Tennant…. There is a formatting change based on the way American television deals with commercial breaks; Broadchurch … Gracepoint began airing on 2 October 2014. Perhaps because it’s kept so close to the source, so far Gracepoint makes for a pretty decent murder mystery, if an entirely superfluous one for audiences of the original. Similarly, when Chloe meets her older boyfriend in the US version, there’s no reference to her age, while the UK version has him ask her if the police know about their relationship, “because you aint sixteen yet”. In Gracepoint, she gets to punish him. I’m going to be talking about the finales of both of these shows, so if you haven’t watched them yet consider yourself warned. It’s a small change, but we hear that Beth had Chloe at seventeen in Gracepoint, and at fifteen in Broadchurch. Ellie Miller, Hardy mistook her for a passer-by and attempted to have her removed from the crime scene. Ellie told him she was police, showed him her badge and they set about work. The final Gracepoint / Broadchurch comparison thread for those who have seen both shows. When we first met Vicky McClure’s journalist Karen, she was complaining about having to rewrite a press release from the Department of Education that was barely written in English. Gracepoint did improve on a few items from Broadchurch. Fox specifically said Gracepoint would have a different ending from Broadchurch. Red herrings – like the backpacker, who was a total dead end – ended up giving Gracepoint a sense of density and slower pacing than Broadchurch with no added payoff; if anything, the result was a net negative, taking a series that focused exceptionally well on the emotional impacts of the murder of a child and the ensuing investigation and turning it into a murder mystery. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Following very low ratings, Gracepoint was not renewed for a second season. “I should hang him from his bollocks from the town hall spire”, added Echo editor, Maggie. The first episode of “Gracepoint” is, if not precisely shot-for-shot, at least beat-for-beat the same as “Broadchurch’s,” creating a strong and not especially welcome sense of déjà vu. It would have been heart-wrenching if I wasn’t watching through a haze of my own annoyance. He also followed the investigation like a hawk, as murderers often do. We leave Gracepoint on a sinister note. But then something changed. Casting The yank version, as well as them all driving on the wrong side of the road and complaining about having “low blood-sugar” (unless Ellie Miller’s a diabetic in this version, in which case we’ll allow it), has fewer conversations about the weather than it does swear words. Moderator of r/Gracepoint Archived. Instead of being strangled by large, male hands as Danny was judged to have been in Broadchurch episode one, in the US version, he was killed by blunt trauma, or a blow to the head. Commenting has been disabled at this time but you can still. In Broadchurch, there was nothing Ellie could do once her husband was arrested but kick and scream. Apparently, although the first few episodes stick very closely to Broadchurch, … If Fox hadn’t paid what is probably a handsome sum for the privilege, we’d rap its knuckles with a ruler for copying ITV’s homework. Warning: spoilers, Last modified on Tue 19 Dec 2017 16.29 EST. Whether he’s telling a porky or not, one key change was made in the Gracepoint opener that could affect how the whole murder investigation unfurls. That’s really the perfect way to end it. dancing at the edge of the cliff. Speaking of which…. New twists and turns. However, the reveal was great and watching Colman’s Ellie keen in agony over the revelation was well worth whatever stretch of the imagination viewers had to take to get there. Familiar: A scene for scene remake of ITV hit Broadchurch, Gracepoint starred David Tennant and Anna Gunn ‘I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting really. “Bloody Twitter!” replied D.I. Like a ‘spot the difference’ page in a comic, the scene in which David Tennant’s character in Gracepoint is taken for a… Gracepoint managed to have a much more elegant, meaningful, and open-ended finish. The American adaptation was retitled as Gracepoint. No matter what happened with this show, we always had Broadchurch, which was nothing short of a gem. I still can't believe this is a remake of a British show with the same actor hah. is an irascible fellow. Hardy. He says he tried to make things physical, Danny pulled away and was going to throw himself off the cliff. The note-worth differences are listed below. Like, the opening sequence is a shot-for-shot exact copy. Then we see Ellie confront Joe with the truth and tell him that he is to tell no one the truth. Broadchurch revisited: David Tennant and Anna Gunn are seen in the trailer for their new show Gracepoint, a US remake of Broadchurch Original: David played the same … The woman who played the innkeeper is SO much better in Gracepoint. Instead, Carver says aloud “don’t do this to me”, which very slightly shifts his position from one of emotional conflict to self-pity and annoyance. If you know Broadchurch, then Gracepoint’s opening episode makes for an uncanny hour of déjà-vu television. Alongside Broadchurch’s exploration of grief and whodunnit ran a  thread of scepticism about the unscrupulous workings of the tabloid press, and a general sense of very British unimpressed-ness with those in authority. 0 1 10. Though it was a ratings flop, the US remake of Broadchurch had an ending that was different – and superior – to the original. Related: 'Broadchurch' Season 2 to Premiere Feb. 4, New Trailers Show Town in Turmoil It was all unraveling in the same … Does Carver turn Tom in? “Lovely morning for it” and so on. But later in the episode, Carver figures out the truth about who killed Danny. I mean, when your starting point is the murder of … Viewers of Broadchurch may think they have little reason to watch Gracepoint, the American remake.Premiering 2 October and running ten episodes, Fox's series looks much like … Noticing her son’s shoes and remembering there were footprints his size at the murder scene, Ellie asked her son Tom (Jack Irvine) if there was something he wasn’t telling her. Confusingly for viewers of both shows, the dog of indeterminate breed is not called Vince, but Mark’s plumber mate Nige, is. The French channel France 2, on which Broadchurch aired … The fruitiest the language came in episode one of the Fox show was a “Go to hell”, which replaced the much more British “Piss off” Mark said was Beth’s response to being woken up that morning. The plot meandered, David Tennant’s American accent was uneven, and Anna Gunn was never as frayed or winning as Olivia Colman in the role of investigator Ellie Miller. Does he keep Ellie’s secret but never trust her again? Joe talked him down, but Danny ran, tripped, hit his head on a rock and died. Let's hope it does keep us on tenterhooks until the very end. So my question is: why are you remaking the show? Is her life and career ruined so she can keep her son’s secret? There was a replay of many of the same scenes as in Broadchurch, Carver telling Ellie, Ellie freaking out and attacking Joe, Ellie taking the kids to a motel to hide. That means Danny’s paper round has been transposed to membership of said group. It has to be said that something was lost in the translation, which, if it continues, will be even more of a shame when the cliff-hangers start coming. Explaining it to someone else is like explaining the illogic of last night’s dream: “David Tennant was there, but he was American, and everyone was really sad and wearing sunglasses and moving in slow-motion…”. Like a ‘spot the difference’ page in a comic, the scene in which David Tennant’s character in Gracepoint is taken for a walk ‘n’ talk by a boss suggesting he comes off the murder investigation is precisely the same as in Broadchurch apart from two things: 1) his boss is a bloke, not a woman, and 2) neither of them are eating that British seaside staple, the 99 with a flake. This might begin to explain how Gracepoint will end up at a different point than Broadchurch. Additionally… There’s no mysteriously absent Reg the photographer, no-one hassles Mark to sign a petition on the way to viewing his son’s body, there’s nothing about Olly/Owen’s ambitions to work in the nationals, they say sneakers instead of trainers, Chloe has a fever and not a temperature, Becca the Aussie is now Gemma the Brit, Brian SOCO is now a sexy Hugo Garcia, and Ellie at no point presents anyone with a stuffed penguin. 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