Jane Tranter, the LA-based BBC Worldwide programming executive and one of the executive producers of the new series of Torchwood, calculates that more than 70 UK comedies or dramas have been reformatted for the US market in the last five years, of which she says only one, NBC's adaptation of The Office, was recommissioned.
Dress tests No to EUsterity ReprintsFour years after the American "reset", the relationship is being "reformatted" to rid dependence on America, says Alexei Pushkov, the pugnacious chairman of the Russian parliament's foreign-relations committee.
Leeds United, the English champions were beaten in a battle of Britain, to earn a place in the first ever group stage of the Champions League, the reformatted European Cup.
The web's premier collection of bacon-related ephemera from pictures of "bacon roses" to pop culture reformatted in a bacon context, 500 Days of Bacon, anyone?
The resume is typed and reformatted by a "document specialist" in Chennai, India.
Measure cumulatively the fragments you remove and see how many lines would be gone if the prose were reformatted.
Turkle writes, "When interchanges are reformatted for the small screen and reduced to the emotional shorthand of emoticons, there are necessary simplifications".
Yet when, sixteen years ago, the comedian Jon Stewart took over "The Daily Show," he did something radical: he took the two formats and reformatted them, creating a series that was not merely useful and funny but emotionally powerful.
Ms. Moore and Ms. Bathgate, along with a few friends, showed the first fruits of their collaboration at Le Poisson Rouge on Tuesday evening, and if they have not reformatted the cello recital as thoroughly as, say, Maya Beiser — another Bang on a Can alumna, who plays multimedia recitals these days — they certainly have a fresh approach and a taste for variety.
To achieve this, the brains of people who have memories must be reformatted, voices of people who are good with words must be silenced, so that the memory of younger generations won't be contaminated.
You can't recover files if you have reformatted the memory card, however.
