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I just saw an internet advert for a show called "the office" and it looks exactly like the office that we had over here, why have they done this! it shouldn't be aloud!!
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I always cringe when I hear that the Americans are doing a remake of a UK show, rather than just importing the original. The trouble is that American TV executives wrongly think that their audiences are stupid and don't credit them with the ability to 'get' British humour, as SteveH75 points out. I think that if a US audience watched a British show knowing it to be a British show, they would be perfectly capable of adapting to British humour, just as we can adapt to American humour when watching one of their comedies.
Sadly, the TV execs think they need to wet-nurse their audience, so they end up with this curious hybrid of Americanised British humour which, surprise surprise, tends to crash and burn. This usually shows that it is the men in suits who don't 'get' British humour, rather than the audiences.
The worst example for me came when I heard they were re-making One Foot In The Grave - the cantakerous old curmudgeon so wonderfully played over here by Richard Wilson being played over there by - I kid you not - everyone's favourite uncle, "cuddly" old Bill Cosby. Talk about missing the point!
Sadly, the TV execs think they need to wet-nurse their audience, so they end up with this curious hybrid of Americanised British humour which, surprise surprise, tends to crash and burn. This usually shows that it is the men in suits who don't 'get' British humour, rather than the audiences.
The worst example for me came when I heard they were re-making One Foot In The Grave - the cantakerous old curmudgeon so wonderfully played over here by Richard Wilson being played over there by - I kid you not - everyone's favourite uncle, "cuddly" old Bill Cosby. Talk about missing the point!