For what it is, good or bad, this project was indeed an official, licensed adaptation of "Mad About You". The beginning and end end credits have explicitly stated this fact with lawful credentials. Such adaptations in TV industry are quite common, legal and collaborative. It is called format licensing. All distributor exhibit their contents in global media markets, and will sell not only the original content but also the formats or the projects. Adaptations are not solely translated and re-shot scripts. Characters are recreated in a different country, culture, values and daily social agenda all of which alter the situations, dialogs, etc drastically. Therefore, the writers who adapt the existing formats are lawfully credited as writers of the adaptation. Calling such legal and legit creative work plagiarism is unjustified and unfair, and can not be considered as personal remark, review, comment or interpretation. It is simply smear. As the director and the writer of the project, I am using my right of rebut.
