British Telly

[John Q. Mayhem]

Last of the Summer Wine is pretty funny. And of course, there's Monty Python

The BBC Sharpe TV movies with Sean Bean are awesome.

 

[glass]

Ok what the shows that get rewritten for U.S.A. tv. Ex Office, Whose line is anyway? etc

A few that spring to mind: Coupling, Dear John, Red Dwarf, As If.

Sometimes we get the US version shown over here too. For example, a couple of years after Dear John finished, we got 'Dear John USA'. Although to be honest I didn't bother to watch it.



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[Brown Jenkin]

Changing Rooms became Trading Spaces
Pop Idol became American Idol
The Weakest Link (We even imported Anne Robinson)

 

[Viking Bastard]

But which shows did the yanks do better?

The only one I can think of is Whose Line is it Anyway, in which I greatly prefer the US version.

 

[Lazybones]

I don't think anybody's mentioned The Thin Blue Line yet; that was another funny short-lived sitcom.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...9515304-3871202?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130

That and Fawlty Towers and Blackadder (2, 3, and 4) are on my Netflix queue.

 

[Steve Jung]

But which shows did the yanks do better?

The only one I can think of is Whose Line is it Anyway, in which I greatly prefer the US version.

Wasn't Coupling a copy of Friends?

 

[PhoenixDarkDirk]

One show I like that I didn't see mentioned yet is "Black Books".

 

[glass]

Wasn't Coupling a copy of Friends?

Well, it was a sit-com, and it had characters who were friends, but apart from that...

Seriously, I never got a particularly Friends vibe from Coupling. IMO, it was a very British kind of a programme.


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[Henry]

One show that no one seemed to like, but my wife and I loved, was Coupling. The American remake was HORRIBLE (lasted one episode, which I watched and can see why), but the original British run of the two seasons (series?) was hilarious to us. Richard Coyle was great in that series - mostly comic timing.

Wasn't Coupling a copy of Friends?

In format, yes (bunch of friends hang in the neighborhood pub and get into stupd situations), but the material was a heck of a lot better, to us - and there's a lot of humor that wouldn't have made it by american censors.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

One show that no one seemed to like, but my wife and I loved, was Coupling. The American remake was HORRIBLE (lasted one episode, which I watched and can see why), but the original British run of the two seasons (series?) was hilarious to us. Richard Coyle was great in that series - mostly comic timing.



In format, yes (bunch of friends hang in the neighborhood pub and get into stupd situations), but the material was a heck of a lot better, to us - and there's a lot of humor that wouldn't have made it by american censors.

I love(d) Coupling when it aired on German TV. Unfortunately, the current broadcaster for it isn't available on Cable, so I haven't seen it in a while, except for the few occassions where I was at home by my parents (who have satellite)...