Oh fucking fuck -- 'Father Ted' to be AMERICANIZED

Brad Pitt would be grebt in The Kumars....

i still haven't seen Curb Your Enthusiasm but it sounds great and probably funnier than anything the UK has produced in the last few years

Alan Yentob's 'Imagine' programme last week focussed on the selling of Coupling and The Office to U.S. networks. Gervais has the most horrendous laugh in real life (pretty much like Brent's but less reserved - !) but I already knew that. What annoyed me was this typical 'oh please like our products Mr America, we've worked really hard to try and impress you' attitude - same as you get with British films like Love Actually or whatever being marketed over there, and with British pop acts like Robbo Williamston. Less sucking up would be nice, and it can actually work (I don't recall the success of The Full Monty being put down to a concentrated promotional drive out there, surely it was never expected to do so well there?)

They should do this sort of thing more often, and it should go the other way too, like, they should make an english version of "frazier", made by the people whi made "this life", or an english version of "the larry sanders show" made by the people who made "gimme gimme gimme". (nb I haven't got a television)

Nonsense, stevem, we demand toadying.