American reworkings of British TV

[Lemmy_kilmister]

Only Fools And Horses.... Or maybe it should be Only Jerks And Mustangs?
Anyway it was called The Kings Of Van Nuys and it's er,..... Different.

 

[Jedi boro]

Meanwhile the real Rodney, (Nicholas lindhurst) is now in the USA filming the new series of Frasier as he’s now joined the cast.

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

Kirsty Alley as the Vicar of Dibley?

 

[Juninhoburger]

Probably the most infamous modern example would be the god awful The Inbetweeners remake.

(I'm not even going to post a YouTube clip.)

Other notable USA remake failures include Red Dwarf, The I.T Crowd (yes, and Richard Ayoade reprised his role as Moss), Taskmaster, and Men Behaving Badly.

 

[h_m_boro]

The Office, in its own American cultural way, worked. Possibly down to Steve Carrell

Some of the ones listed above -

 

[Norman_Conquest]

Only Fools And Horses.... Or maybe it should be Only Jerks And Mustangs?
Anyway it was called The Kings Of Van Nuys and it's er,..... Different.

The pilot episode, which I don't think they made anymore, popped up on my YouTube and I watched it. I know Christopher Lloyd was in it but all the gags seemed to be around Back to the Future - I couldn't believe how bad it was.

 

[Jedi boro]

Ghosts has worked though I think as ghosts us is more s different take than a direct remake.

 

[Jonny Ingbar]

The Office, in its own American cultural way, worked. Possibly down to Steve Carrell

Some of the ones listed above -

The US Office was better than the UK one for me and I love the UK version.

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

Fawlty Towers triple

 

[Jedi boro]

Fawlty Towers triple

I love John larroquette, great in night court.

 

[Littlejimmy]

I finished Ghosts last week and iPlayer started playing the US version. I lasted 5 minutes and turned off.

 

[Mustoes boots]

or the other way round who remembers the rubbish British remake of Married with Children with Russ Abbott, Married for Life i recall

 

[sadgit]

I finished Ghosts last week and iPlayer started playing the US version. I lasted 5 minutes and turned off.

Keep going.. we are half way through series 2 of the US version. It is very very good. Don't try to compare it to the UK version. Some of the characters are brilliant!

 

[Littlejimmy]

Keep going.. we are half way through series 2 of the US version. It is very very good. Don't try to compare it to the UK version. Some of the characters are brilliant!

I might do that. I think I was probably getting to grips with the fact that Ghosts was over and I'd loved every minute of it and wasn't ready for the US version

 

[Juninhoburger]

or the other way round who remembers the rubbish British remake of Married with Children with Russ Abbott, Married for Life i recall

We tried and failed miserably to remake That 70s Show with Rosie Marcel as Donna.

A full series was filmed but only about three episodes actually aired

 

[BlindBoyGrunt]

The American Alf Garnett was pretty bad I remember.

 

[El Guapo]

Coupling.

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

And then theres....this...

 

[sadgit]

I might do that. I think I was probably getting to grips with the fact that Ghosts was over and I'd loved every minute of it and wasn't ready for the US version

We thought exactly the same, gave it a week and went back to it. Watching several a night at the moment

 

[Rofesleg]

The Office, in its own American cultural way, worked. Possibly down to Steve Carrell

Some of the ones listed above -

Series 1 of the American Office wasn't very good.
They tried to copy the original almost scene for scene and it didn't work.
From Series 2 onwards they did their own thing and it was great.