― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:15 (twenty years ago) link
It starred Justine Bateman and Rob Schneider and lasted one season -- need I say more?
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link
Yup. Was crap. (As Nicole noted -- did it even last the one season?)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
The Upper Hand. But wasn't the American version Who's the Boss?
Why has no-one mentioned Brighton Belles yet?
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
Also did Bread ever get a US remake?
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link
the sitcom has been dead on both sides of the Atlantic for a long time as far as i'm concerned. Father Ted and League OF Gentlemen were the last great conventional sitcoms to emerge for me - didnt rate the recent Alan Partridge - tho Black Books was alright, and if you want to class Spaced and The Office as sitcoms then them too.
can't think of any American sitcoms i've enjoyed recently, animated comedies have taken over i guess. but Scrubs and Ed were virtually sitcoms and were great.
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
(Also see Married for Life (crap Married with Children starring Russ Abbott) and whatever the crap remake of Mad about You starring John Gordon Sinclair was)
I highly suspect that the US is just getting their own back for us British-izing their sitcoms :)
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
Ok, I'll stop doing that. Was there a British version of Charles in Charge? I'd like to see that.
― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:03 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
"What does it take to be a WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLFFF?"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:07 (twenty years ago) link
Dougal, Father Ted, Mrs Doyle, Father Jack
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 19:13 (twenty years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link
Count ANOTHER remake DOA...
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 19:18 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 20:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 20:13 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Stewart (Tim Stewart), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
Producer Gavin Polone, who has helped create the US version of BBC Two's The Kumars at Number 42, said he was working on a US version of the classic Channel 4 comedy Father Ted.
"We are doing new scripts ... although we are 'adapting' that show which is probably the best English show that I have ever seen," he told the Hollywood Reporter.
Because of course Father Ted is all about being English.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link
They really have no clue.
(there was more to that sentence I quoted but a man can only take so much)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link
― RAISE YOUR STANDARDS! (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:02 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
Also - adapting My Family. Yep, that's necessary.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
― prima fassy (bob), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link
― smee (smee), Thursday, 27 November 2003 11:27 (twenty years ago) link
Hahaha. Suckers.
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 27 November 2003 11:30 (twenty years ago) link
― smee (smee), Thursday, 27 November 2003 11:33 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 November 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 November 2003 11:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 November 2003 11:39 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 November 2003 13:31 (twenty years ago) link
Did anything ever happen with this?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link
No, it's Spaced US that it's time to get butthurt about now.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahahahaha waht
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Brought to you by McG
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
lololololololololol that is going to SUCK
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Spaced's gormless movie parody scenes and ZANY housemate schtick should go down a treat in the US.
― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Who the hell still watches sitcoms? It seems like they're only appropriate if a) they're in British or b) they're this weird comedy/drama hybrid that's neither funny nor dramatic (the US version of Office, etc.)
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
"Arf a bottle of ouzo destructo and OH, the regrets."
― Laurel, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link