TV Shows America Stole From Britain - Anglophenia Ep 19
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- čas přidán 18. 11. 2014
- Your favorite classic American TV shows were originally British? Siobhan Thompson looks at the many series we've pilfered from the folks across the Pond.
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They absolutely murdered The Inbetweeners. :/
There version was awful
TheDeadlyPianist If you think that was bad then go find the pilot for the US version of Red Dwarf... horrible!
John Smith I don't want then to ruin the image for me so I won't look it up lol
Luke Garrett I loved the UK version of Red Dwarf. I don't even want to look at a U.S. remake.
+TheDeadlyPianist The US remake of the IT Crowd had Richard Ayoade in it. He now hates it with a passionate vengeance and won't speak about it.
Brits do it best and im glad us aussies have more in common with you guys than we do with the yanks.
Yep, I've always liked Australia. Good to know that not every former colony of ours turned in to an absolute fuck-up *cough* America. it's a shame you get so restricted with games and movies :(
yep thats why most of us are pirates lmao
Never met an Aussie yet who didn't go out of his way to show his respect for me as a Brit.
Well we did use your country as a penal colony. Also hail tzeentch
All good taliesin we came here for a bit of sun. Oh maybe you dont know what that is its a big yellow ball in the sky ;)
Tzeetch lol yeah right the most unimportant one.
Most of the TV I watch is British shows....Personally, I don't understand doing American remakes, just air the original British shows, they're wonderful!
I agree. I mean, the US makes excellent shows without having to remake Brit ones. Two that spring to mind are TBBT and Cheers. A lot of comedy is specific to the culture and that's why it's funny, like the Irish show Mrs Brown's Boys, for example. I'd never want to see a remake of Brendan O'Carroll's genius character. Likewise I'd never want to see a British version of TBBT. I wonder, though, if the simpler stories like Dinnerladies (RIP the wonderful Victoria Wood) and The Smoking Room would ever go across well in the US.
Point taken but they probably remake it for culture difference.
Robert MacDuffie You've got an argument for the office sort of and one for the production value on the American shameless. But the british shameless is funnier than the American one by far.
Tbf though, that's probably because of the cultural thing. I like the British one more cos I'm British and that's our humour (if you grew up on a council estate in england, you'd know that that stuff happens lol) You probably like the US version for the same reason.
A really successful sitcom over here (UK) in the late 1970s/early 1980s was "Porridge" about a man - Norman Stanley Fletcher - and his life in prison.
The Americans wanted their version of it, which was written by the same writers as Porridge, but called "On the Rocks". However, it only lasted one or two series as it didn't really transfer so well. Also, whereas a British sitcom series is normally 6 or 8 episodes, an sitcom in American can be far more and the writers struggled to keep coming up with ideas.
I love a lot of British TV shows. In fact I think there are more good shows on in the UK than here in the US. I watch QI, Have I got news for you, Russell Howard's good news, mock the week, Dr who, versa, mi 5, Bailey and Scott and so many others.
Vera not versa. Bloody auto correct.
You have great taste in British TV.
If you haven't seen them already I recommend Black Books, The IT Crowd and Father Ted. Three absolutely classic comedy programmes.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks too. The older episodes anyway.
mintyvision a fan of graham linehan are we?
Being Human. I loved that show (the original UK version).
I watched both, and thought the US version ended much better than the UK one did. Killing off the entire cast and characters kinda killed the UK one for me.
Dave Bernstien AAGGGHHHH!! SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!! ;)
Mark Partin Sorry about that. Didn't expect it to be considered spoilers since it's been over for about a year now.
I AGREE. The American version isnt good
I was about to say that exactly. The american version is terrible.
Nothing was 'stolen', the rights were purchased from the original British station and an agreement was reached between the British and American networks.
+Inkshooter she doesn't mean actually stoolen, more like they stole the idea though leagally, i dont know how to explain it, she just doesn't mean literally.
+Inkshooter And we have remade a few American shows over here. Sadly though it seems our national humour doesn't translate well.
it's called humour, something else which doesn't translate to american audiences well
I love these episodes of Anglophenia. Keep them coming, Siobhan.
do you know what the Americans need ... Gogglebox
hannah edwards but the British gogglebox
best anon sssh you'll give them ideas
OMG I forgot about that I love it
Yeah but we have Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Entourage, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, 30 Rock, Game of Thrones, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Louie, Dexter, American Horror Story, It's Always Sunny, and 24 just to name a few.
(And let's not pretend we didn't make House of Cards what it is.)
'murica
Mad Med was originally an English show wasn't it ?
But you don't have Spaced.
ok you made game of thrones, but we maaaade game of thrones. the accent is what makes it XD
How could you leave out the wire?
Game of thrones is loosely based on English history plus the fact a lot of it is filmed in Northern Ireland (which is the part of Ireland in the uk for those who don't know) so you can't really claim that one 100%
Great presentations. Keep up the good work! 😀
Just found your videos! As a Brit living in America, they have been very useful in educating my american friends :)
There was a USA remake of Fawlty Towers.
Bea Arthur in the Basil Fawlty role...
We don't like to talk about it.
lol
ThePeaceableKingdom There was also one with Harvey Korman which lasted about two episodes.
TJ Cassidy Wow. Scary.
Love Fawlty Towers. I actually live in Torquay although it wasn't filmed there
I enjoy learning more about British culture, but not a fan of the off-hand comments about the USA. I didn't think that was what this show was about. Nonetheless, I do think it's interesting.
Seems to go backwards and forwards Danielle.
like they've said, she makes those remarks because theres a familiarity, a friendly banter between the two nations
I just love your channel. I've always wanted to live in England and I find these very entertaining and informative
The best British shows that were imported directly (and not had American versions made), usually aired on PBS as "Britcoms": "Are You Being Served? (AYBS)", "Keeping Up Apperances", "Allo! Allo!" and "Mr. Bean"
I'm not sure about the others, but AYBS got a US pilot called Beane's of Boston (it never went beyond, though).
I loved The Inbetweeners! Then they did the American remake on MTV and it was sooooo bad. Ugh. Though, I didn't exactly have high hopes for it anyway. They literally copied everything exactly and Americanized it and it just didn't translate too well. A couple of years ago, I read that there was going to be an American version of Misfits. So glad that never happened. That DEFINITELY wouldn't translate well.
American had a show called misfits of science in the 70's that barely went a season. It had a bunch of teenagers dealing with powers, but more along a torchwood kind of structure.
Yeah like when they changed "bus wankers: to "bus turds" I cringed sooo much I was just like, "no just no"
They buggered up Spaced, Red Dwarf and Inbetweeners
Love your channel! One of the few I subscribe to and actually watch! Also, I HAAAAAVE to know where you got this amazing gold sweater!!!
I'm very glad I've found this channel. I'm obsessed with Britain and I find British history very fascinating. That's why I have chosen to study English at university. (and Japanese by the way - just to lack sleep :P).
Anyway so far you're channel is fantastic! ;)
As an American who loves TV, or as you across the pond might say: a Yank who loves telly, I for one would like to point out an American TV show that the Brit's borrowed (and did quite well with if I might add)...Law & Order. While I might not be familiar with all of the colloquialisms used in the show, I thoroughly enjoyed Law & Order: UK.
+jamesalthaus1229 Same here. I only started watching it for Freema Agyeman (was curious to see her in a non-Doctor Who role) and ended up getting hooked on it on its own merits. It was interesting to see the similarities and differences between our justice system and the British system.
+jamesalthaus1229 Golden Girls also got remade as Brighton Belles.
I thought L&O UK was so much better than any of the American ones. Also, Jamie Bamber and Ben Daniels are very important 😍
What's unstated in this vid is the fact that Britons don't remake American TV shows, because they show the original American TV shows in Britain -- tons of them. So let's drop the Brits do it better schtick. (P.S. I'm a dual citizen and love shows from both countries, so no nationalistic axe to grind here.)
You forgot Who's Line is it Anyway. This is Clive Anderson, saying goodnight. Goodnight.
I TOTALLY binge watched Broadchurch on Netflix over Christmas. So good!
This episode is purely intriguing and one of the reasons why I love Anglophenia! xD
Let's not forget the disaster that was the American version of The IT Crowd. As a huge fan of the original, the remake was truly cringeworthy.
Coupling, one of my favorite UK shows and of course The IT Crowd. It's like US ran over that show and is now going to back up and hit it again. Thankfully, I don't think Doc Martin or the Vicar of Dibley is translatable
But wasn't Couplng a British take on Friends?
David Linstad that comparison was made at the time, and the ratings suffered for it. It's its own show, but all sit-coms will get compared to friends, and fall short. Still loved it through, very funny
They both had an ensemble cast but Coupling was actually based on the relationship of creator Steven Moffat and producer Sue Vertue. (I suppose they could have based their relationship on the sitcom Friends, seem unlikely. :) I agree that Coupling suffered from the comparison but I was never a die hard Friends fan (GASP, I know) so I will always pick Coupling over Friends.
Doc Martin has a French adaptation though
Paola Rojas And a Dutch, Greek, Austrian, German and Spanish one too. Possibly even a Russian version.
You scared me when you mentioned The Dukes of Hazard. There's a few BBC shows I absolutely love watching reruns of; "Are You Being Served", "Keeping up Appearances" and "As Time Goes By"
Another one not in the video, is One Foot in the Grave. In 1996, Bill Cosby did a remake of it, with Cosby playing the Victor Meldrew character. There is a Wikipedia article saying Cosby was "loosely based" on OFINTG. But the first episode had a number of lines that were directly lifted from the UK original.
Why does BBC America broadcast Broadchurch when it's ITV's?
+TheMightyKinkle BBC America is owned by the BBC, but not funded by British taxpayers and not directly linked to BBC programming, so it has adverts and it leases popular shows from a few British networks. The downside to this is that any show that takes off in the US is instantly regarded as being a BBC production, it makes me wonder why the likes of Channel 4 and ITV would let it happen and lose credit where it is due.
+Rob Fraser Ah right. Thanks for the info
And now they're remaking Luther- All i wanted was a fourth season...
I could listen to your beautiful voice all day long. So perfect.
A few of our favorites that came straight over, needing no translation: Are You Being Served, Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python..., Benny Hill, Keeping Up Appearances (actually Flying Circus political and cultural allusions went past, but still funny).
They gave us Friends though, we can never compete with this.
We can! 'Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps!!
Ava Lawrence I used to drive the bus past the pub they used as the Archer...its a Buddist temple now!
ella brookes no way! That's a shame :-(
ella brookes A British comedy about friends living together in a shared flat... BOTTOM!!!!!!!! lol. Or even Rising Damp, and what was that show about two guys and a woman sharing a flat out just before Friends (the girl in the show was the most famous one).
ella brookes What about Coupling?
You forgot , when referencing US knockoffs of UK shows that did not make it past the pilot stages, the two (yes, TWO) terrible adaptations of Red Dwarf, which were, as you Brits say, simply dreadful.
Three's Company is one of my all time favourite shows. But I did fall in love with the British QAF mini series(which you forgot to mention) before the US made their version of it. But then I fell in love with the US version. I have every American season on DVD and every British episode as well.
I love this channel, sadly, I only found it a week ago. This particular clip is wonderful. Towards the end you mention "skins." A show I much more enjoy on the BBC. Who doesn't love Effy?! I also enjoy shows like, Dr. Who, Misfits, Graham Norton, Keeping up appearances, Vicar of Dibly, and Are you being served. I realize a few of these shows are classic...but the comedy remains!! If you have other shows along this comedy line, I'd love to know. Thank you for your information!!!
The Office is the only American remake that is better than it's English Counterpart.
That's debatable. I personally thought the American version was awful, but everyone man to their own.
I love the British office as well, but I just think the US one was a little better.
Carter Glenn I thought that the British one had cleverer writing, with subtler jokes, but I guess that's just my opinion :)
The kind of jokes that are most common in British comedy aren't the sort of thing a lot of Americans would understand due to difference in humour. Plus, there's a lot more of the US Office than there is UK Office. Still, I guess it's a matter of taste. I'm just glad America hasn't tried to remake Faulty Towers!
Sarah Reed. Oh, but they have. There are three different American attempts at a Fawlty Towers remake. Chateau Snavely, starring Harvey Korman (1978), Amanda's, starring Bea Arthur with the main character's genders reversed (1983), and the most painful of the bunch, Payne, starring John Laroquette (1999). They were all just superbly terrible. Payne was utterly unwatchable.
There was apparently another version discussed at some point, but I don't know any details beyond that.
The American remake of inbetweeners could never work.
I love the accent. I could listen to it all day, every day. Oh, and nice episode, BTW.
Sherlock. Wallander, Bletchley Park, Mrs Fisher, The Wipers Times, Luther.... Just to name a bit of my favorites..... Netflix is going nuts adding new BBC shows weekly... Fantastic.
Mrs Fisher is Australian. Wallander is a BBC remake of a Swedish show (the Swedish version is better, if less accessible to anglophone audiences).
Paula Thomas
Quite right. The Swedish show is awesome, even though subtitles are necessary. The BBC Wallander (also on PBS) is a lot darker.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Sherlock's horrible American counterpart, Elementary. *cringe* Sherlock rules!
Although they have the same source material, Sherlock and Elementary are completely different aside from being about detective work.
Beyond the character, they're not alike at all.
***** That's interesting. I never would have known that.
Actually, the American television answer to Sherlock Holmes is Gregory House, who is, ironically, played by a British actor.
both suck
Yes, Brits do it better. For example, Doctor Who
Eddie Izzard's bit about the show had me rolling. He showcased pretty much all the questions I had about the show when I watched it as a kid.
I really hate the phrase "Brits do it better" Get the fuck out of here with your stupid ego.
shinmusashi44
Can't help but be honest :P
I think we all have our strengths and weaknesses when it comes to entertainment between your country and America (my country) but you are right, Doctor Who is awesome.
KentuckyWallChicken of course it is! How could doctor who be nothing less than awesome? Awesome is an understatement for it. My bedroom is decorated in doctor who! I have the entire disc collection of the series from 1 to 8 and many of the season episodes including the movie designed to attract American audiences.
I recall once seeing a really bad pilot for an American version of "Red Dwarf", one of my favorite shows. I think the same happened with "The IT Crowd". I don't believe those ever aired but you can find them floating around online...
Correct me if I may be wrong, but wasn't 'Friends' a British remake too? It if was that will always be my fave! Most of the British TV shows I am familiar with were on PBS, like the 'Goonies' and 'Fawlty Towers'. I am not sure of the spelling on the last one.
An American Ab Fab LMFAO
Lol we is everyone dissing America though?? I'm looking at the comments and I'm seeing British and "Aussies" saying all these things like dude I'm sure there's things we do better than you guys, and then there's things you guys do better than us.
+Kayla Selenator Yes, but part of commonwealth humour/ social bonding is poking fun and showing we can be made fun of. Not everyone does it but it's very common and occasionally spills into just downright nasty so there's an unspoken line we just know of. In America almost everyone is super nice all the time (dull!). The rest of us poke fun at each other all the time to test each other's toughness then revel in it.
shameless, the Inbetweeners and Gavin and Stacey will never be as good as the U.K version, we have a different sense of humour than the U.S and it shows in all these programmes. Also, The Office U.S is not good to be honest as Ricky Gervais made the show what it is with his personality.
Sian Greenwood You'd have to have a unique mix of personalities, background stories and great actors to make it work, even then Nessa is irreplaceable.
+Sian Greenwood I agree with everything you mentioned, except for the office. The american version of the office is way better than the British.
Plus my personal favourite: Whose Line is it Anyway?
Red Dwarf USA.
Vomit.
BEST: The Office. Definitely the best American remake and until the later seasons...I'd say the BETTER of the two. It tapped into something about working in a North American office that anyone whose ever done it can definitely relate to.
WORST: Skins or the Inbetweeners. Pick one. Both were super tone deaf, too censored and it always seemed like an awkward high school play rather than an adaptation. I think they failed because unlike the Office or House of Cards, they never truly adapted it for the American context. It was just a line by line import.
Agreed 100%
PoochMount18
I think it is. At least the first few seasons.
Whose Line Is It Anyway is my favorite import. I liked the UK original a lot.
"This is me, Clive Anderson saying, ' good night.' Good night."
I really wish the US would adopt and invest more the use of miniseries format from the UK. Makes a show more of an event if it's reoccurring, you can play a lot more with the plot with longer run times, an you'd have so much less filler.
Shameless U.S is better than Shameless U.K by far.
never,,,
HOW DARE YOU??!
Bollocks ,to quote a British word
gyrosplater Not.
Clive Harper No shit? Glad you set us straight.
this isn't a TV show, but it is something America claims is there's - Apple Pie. Britain invented it first.
Americans never claimed they invented it. The saying is "It's as American as apple pie" It just means it's super common in the US. I'm sure Americans eat way more apple pie than the British.
shinmusashi44 Yeh you're probs right there - In the UK Apple Crumble and Apple Struedel would be as popular, if not more popular than apple pie as a pastry based apple dessert. Apple Pie reigns supreme over them in the US by far.
shinmusashi44 Americans eat way more of everything lol
Henry Smith hahaha
Siobhan - where did you find that sweater?! It's awesome!
***** Hal! Chain mail may come in handy. Though I'd probably choose mithril if I had to have a chain mail shirt.
Love your videoes btw , but when you did the one aboput regional uk accents , you missed out on the specific Cardiff acccent which sounds different to the generic South Welsh accent . Still like I say keep up the good work !
BBC version of SKINS far superior to that of US version.
It was E4 not BBC.
Top Gear. The UK version was superior now they both suck
John Cleese's Fawlty Towers was copied as a vehicle for Bea Arthur in the short-lived sitcom "Amanda's" back in 1983. John Laroquette also had a turn as an American Basil Fawlty at some point in the mid to late 1990's.
I saw House of Card on the show called Masterpiece Theater which showcased British TV shows. Ian Richardson was genuinely chilling on that show and when he got shot I got so excited my mom thought someone real was shot.
I don't understand why this channel is so american-centered. Aren't there any english culture and language lovers in the world, besides americans? It's like watching something that doesn't want me to watch it, like "this is only for U.S. residents, piss off"...
You are 100% right.
Maybe because it's produced by BBC America?
I was unaware that the show being American-centered was an automatic insult to the rest of the world and somehow ONLY for U.S. citizens to watch. We should just stick to our own countries, and feel insulted by any program that doesn't regularly talk about our country. Guess I'm going to have to give up Doctor Who...
DoctorApotheosis Wow, an american "not aware" of something. That's new.
Well...considering that the channel is kind of about the Anglo-American cultural connection and I'm pretty sure she lives in the US, it makes sense.
I wish the Americans would remake everything because they do everything better than anyone.
Said no one ever
Or just show British programs here on more popular networks. So we don't can't crappy remakes.
I LOVE British TV! Most of what I watch is British. I adored absolutely fabulous, are you being served, shamless, doctor who is my all time favorite sense the early days. I've watched all of them, still do Also Gavin and Stacey, coupling, upstairs downstairs, and many MANY more. As to which I think is better, British is hands down. I just wish I could still get some of them like are you being served and my hero. I would like to thank you for your channel, I really enjoy it. keep them coming. 👍👍
I've watched both the UK and US versions of Being Human. Both shows have their strengths and weaknesses, but I think I enjoyed the UK version a bit more. Interesting that Elementary wasn't mentioned since it and Sherlock are both so popular.
I'm tentatively looking forward to David Fincher's next adaptation of a UK show: UTOPIA. The British original will be sorely missed.
I can't believe you didn't mention 'The Antique's Roadshow' and 'Top Gear'.
I am from London and have lived in the USA for 40 years. I believe Friends was based on our show Coupling and also the US produced Top Gear over here as well. Both show were pretty watered down compared to the originals
Whose Line is it Anyway? is one of my favorites from Britain
I have a colleague in work that regularly hums the theme tune to Sanford and Son, despite the fact he has never seen the show or knows where he picked the theme up.
I'm wondering if reverse is true, i.e. British networks made their own versions of American show. The only ones I can this of is The Price Is Right and Wheel Of Fortune but their game/quiz shows.
Do you have a list of famous British shows that started in the US? Blankety Blank, Geordie Shore & Blockbusters are 3 that spring to my mind
I have only just discovered this channel again. Thank you for mentioning The Dukes of Hazzard. As an American that is my favorite television show however, I did realize that Sanford and Son and Three's Company were British shows before I am not completely uneducated
*favoUrite *realiSe
@@adolflenin4973 whaddya mean?
@@passthebs.1341 learn English firSt
Ok, so more "borrowed" content from the UK I know of, Red Dwarf a Sci Fi sitcom where Dave Lister (the last man alive), Rimmer (A hologram of his dead bunkmate), Kat (A evolution of a pregnant cat which was smuggled onto the ship by Dave Lister) and Holly (The ships computer who has a severe case of bit rot) are trying to return to Earth after flying away from it for 3 million years after one of the engine drive plates vented radioactive material killing all but Lister and Kat. There was only one Pilot episode of this I'm aware of which had Jane Leeves as Holly and kept Robert Llewellyn as Kryten (A character not introduced to the UK TV show until series (season) 2.
Mad Dogs is a drama series where a bunch of school mates all meet up for a bit of a reunion at one of the friends villas, turns out this friend had some rather dodgy acquaintances and it's reasonably dark, but quite funny.
I watched the first episode of the US Mad Dogs (it's on UK Amazon Prime) and it was OK, but without the famous British faces or the original, it doesn't quite capture the same atmosphere, by the same token the humour is a bizarre hybrid of the two and doesn't work very well in my opinion. As for Red Dwarf, I found the US pilot of the show quite amusing and it still seemed to work, however it obviously wasn't that popular and as a result didn't get a series. Track down the US pilot out of interest but I believe that they scrapped it and imported the UK version anyway but don't quote me on that :)
What about Russell T. Davies's "Queer as folk"? I love the american remake.
One of my favourite UK to US shows is Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Both versions of the show are excellent, though I'm not too familiar with the recent revival.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Whose Line Is It Anyway? Although it may not have been as popular in the UK. How about Britain's Got Talent? Did the come from the U.S. originally?
At least four different versions of "Fawlty Towers" failed here: one starring Harvey Korman, one starring Bea Arthur, one starring John Larroquette, and one starring Tim Curry. The last featured Steve Carrell (!) as the Manuel character.
I very much enjoyed the SyFy version of Being Human, now, whether it came from America or Canada and aired in America, I don't know, but I do know that it was originally a British show.
The In Betweeners was an AWESOME show! I loved it.
Plus you guys have Graham Norton, Top Gear, Fifth Gear too. They've not yet been remade in the U.S. per se. But the originals are quite good.
kd1s Top Gear America did exist.
cjmillsnun It did. And it was rubbish. At its best it was bad. Mostly it was unwatchable.
I'd love to see a video about popular American TV shows where the main "American" characters are actually played by "British" actors. It may be a very long video.
The U.S. attempt at a remake of AbFab (which I did not even recall until this moment) failed because the British Original already had such a LARGE, HUGE fan base here. Can't wait for the MOVIE to open!!! Cheers, Thanks alot...
The British version of What Not to Wear was MUCH better than the US version. Not only did the presenters Trinny and Susannah have real-human shaped female bodies, but they also found clothes for their rescued fashion victims in small towns. Stacy and Clinton could only work in NYC.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? was a grate UK show that came over here to the US.
I found the American version of The Office superior to the British original. It just seemed more realistic to me.
+Bigyeti Technologies I'm not sure about realistic. The british version was very realistic in terms of the general disappointment of people working an office life. I would say the US version is less realistic, but more optimitistic
I'm quite fond of what I'll call "Britcoms" such as "Keeping up Appearances" ,"Are You Being Served" & "Doc Martin".
You mention quite a few American shows that were remakes of British shows. Some I knew, others I didn't. However, I would like to know what shows started in America and became popular in England.
Then what shows have been remade, but not so popular?
There are many American shows that are popular in the UK but not many that have been remade specifically for a UK audience.
Can you make a video about american shows that Britain borrowed?
I finally got to see the original British versions on CZcams of the old shows I watched in the 70s. All in the family, Sanford and Son. And all the others. the British versions were funnier
You forgot "Survivor"! It first aired in Sweden, but was created by Charlie Parsons, a British TV producer, and has been produced in the US by a British TV producer (Mark Burnett) since the first season.
I'll tell you the latest I've spotted that the Americans stole from us:
I was watching "Regular Show" when an episode called "Silver Dude" came on.
In it, an guy starts "crimping" and using the same style, words and expressions that Howard Moon & Vince Noir use in "The mighty Boosh."
The Boosh episode came out around 2006, but "Regular Show" didn't even exist in 2006 (I believe it came out in 2012).
I wasn't too pleased to see the writers of "Regular Show" do this, as they are great writers and put out a great show. Hopefully we won't see them nick any more material from other shows.
You missed out The IT Crowd! The american pilot got made with Richard Ayoade in his role as Moss, but with Joel McHale as Roy and Rocky Carroll as Reynholm. It was horrible.
No mention of The Prisoner? Sure, the remake was done strictly as a miniseries, but really....
I think Simon Cowell thought up Britains Got Talent, before he exported it to the USA, but for some reason, America's Got talent started a year earlier than BGT.
Broadchurch is an ITV show though, so surely if you're talking where it's come from you should mention that (even if it is BBC America who are showing it there)
What about "What Not To Wear"? I enjoyed both versions a bunch.
Nice shirt. Aquaman wants it back.
I kid, I kid. It did remind me of him though.
i freaking love Shameless US, like that is my favorite show...
Is there a French version of this channel? I love French stuff too
At least one show went the opposite direction. Law and Order has a UK version. However, if I'm not mistaken, that involved the original producers - it wasn't just a "borrowing".
Other than that, yup... originality is a rare commodity in hollywood these days.