I know that Man About The House was Three's Company and I know that Steptoe and Son was Sanford and Son. Oh and 'Til death Us Do Part was All In The Family right?
Can anyone else think of anymore ? How many US comedies became UK comedies? I know Who's The Boss was The Upper Hand in the UK. Do you think that our US counterparts did a better job than ours?
all the best
Alan
I don't think they do a better job, just adapt it to their own circumstantial humour. Which means we don't tend to find their versions funny, nor they ours...
God help us if they tried it with Only Fools and Horses~
I think they tried to remake "men behaving badly" and renamed the original "British men behaving badly" as if they thought of it.
I think they tried to remake "men behaving badly" and renamed the original "British men behaving badly" as if they thought of it.
they'd have been better renaming it 'Funny Men behaving badly'
The US version was nicknamed "Men Behaving Quite Well Actually" by my wife and several other Americans who had seen the Brit version and loved it.
There was also a truly awful prog called "Royle" which didn't last long. It was a US version of Fawlty Towers. As you can imagione, it was utter garbage. They took the original scripts, tried to condense them from 29 minutes to 22 mins, adapted them to a US environment and made sure they were sanitisied (and politically correct) to network standards. The main protagonists, Mr & Mrs Payne, made frequent wisecracks at each other's expense, but were, of course, still in love. The Manuel character was a little dim, but no reference was made to his national origin or ethnicity. The Basil character was called Royle Payne (get it?) but he was a loveable buffoon rather than the desperate, poisonous character so brilliantly created by John Cleese.
For some unknown reason, Channel Four (UK) bought the series after it had been cancelled in the USA. What possessed them, I can't imagine. It played at half past midnight. Maybe it was cheaper than the test card.
The Golden Girls became Brigthon Belles in the UK and was utter rubbish, no wonder it got cancelled.
Wasn't Coupling originally a rip off of Friends. Probably the only thing that ended up better than the original....until they tried an American Coupling.... roll
God only knows what the US version of The Office will be like....
A copy is never as good as the oringinal ,same in films with sequels.
Sometimes they just keep the original name and change the charaters as in *whos line is it anyway * with that moron drew Carey instead if the briliant Nigel Anderson .
I used to love that programe
Mind you, I always thought that All In The Family was better than Till Death Us Do Part.
A copy is never as good as the oringinal ,same in films with sequels.
Sometimes they just keep the original name and change the charaters as in *whos line is it anyway * with that moron drew Carey instead if the briliant Nigel Anderson .
I used to love that programe
You mean Clive Anderson.
Losing the marbles old boy :wink:
Another terrible adaptation was One Foot In The Grave which was butchered by Bill Cosby. Urrggh it was bad o
Oh I also forgot that there was a US pilot of Red Dwarf too. That didnt live for very long....... wink
Mind you, I always thought that All In The Family was better than Till Death Us Do Part.
No! You couldn't replace Alf Garnett....
A copy is never as good as the oringinal ,same in films with sequels.
Sometimes they just keep the original name and change the charaters as in *whos line is it anyway * with that moron drew Carey instead if the briliant Nigel Anderson .
I used to love that programe
I do think Wayne Brady's a plus about the American show.
A copy is never as good as the oringinal ,same in films with sequels.
Sometimes they just keep the original name and change the charaters as in *whos line is it anyway * with that moron drew Carey instead if the briliant Nigel Anderson .
I used to love that programe
You mean Clive Anderson.
Losing the marbles old boy :wink:
Of course i do there i go using NAMES again