i beg to differ. Only a tiny few UK to US tv show conversion was even remotely successful. All the rest flopped horrendously so it follows that americans just couldn't copy the conditions needed to simulate how wildly popular brit shows get (red dwarf, it crowd, life on mars, shameless, Coupling, cracker, Ab Fab, Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers; which had three attempts to copy it in the US, The Inbetweeners, Gavin & Stacey, Spaced, Sirens... the list continues)
We'll give you US the Office though, that was waaaay better than Gervais' one here in the UK. Also House of Cards.
Which is a damn shame because US has great weird brit style comedy (running wilde and Better off Ted came to mind, both sadly cancelled far too soon)
i beg to differ. Only a tiny few UK to US tv show conversion was even remotely successful. All the rest flopped horrendously so it follows that americans just couldn't copy the conditions needed to simulate how wildly popular brit shows get (red dwarf, it crowd, life on mars, shameless, Coupling, cracker, Ab Fab, Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers; which had three attempts to copy it in the US, The Inbetweeners, Gavin & Stacey, Spaced, Sirens... the list continues)
We'll give you US the Office though, that was waaaay better than Gervais' one here in the UK. Also House of Cards.
Which is a damn shame because US has great weird brit style comedy (running wilde and Better off Ted came to mind, both sadly cancelled far too soon)