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Originally Posted by Harmon
I never heard of, nor watched any of those shows other than the office. The UK version only ran for 14 episodes total. That's it. Oh, and by the way? Rick Gervaise brought the show to the US. Nobody copied anything.
Oh, and for shits and giggles I looked up some of the other shows in your list. Men Behaving Badly ran for one season in 1996-1997. Yeah, you guys are really spouting out some "copy" worth shows.  |
Many successful British TV shows (particularly sitcoms and reality shows) have been remade for the American market. The amount of reworking varies with some shows (such as All in the Family) keeping the basic situation and then adding many original features while others have taken complete scripts verbatim (such as Amanda's).
There are relatively few examples of American shows remade for the British market (the majority of these being game shows), and the British television audience are very accepting of the American originals while being much less accepting of British remakes (see, for instance, the failure of Brighton Belles, the British remake of The Golden Girls). The US remakes have sometimes been imported back into the UK. By contrast, original British programmes are rarely seen on the major US networks and are usually broadcast only on the Public Broadcasting Service and on cable television, especially BBC America, with only a few purely British shows having gained mainstream popularity in the United States. This list includes a number of pilots not subsequently made into series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...evision_series
http://www.classicsitcoms.co.uk