A while back I saw a bit of Man About The House and didn't really care for it. Having grown up watching Three's Company.

Then this weekend I started watching Man About The House from the beginning and can't believe how much Three's Company copied it.

Anyway, it turns out its pretty much the same show only whittier. I should have known - The American knockoffs are never as good.

I'd like to see an American knock off of Only Fools and Horses

All in the Family wasn't bad but I remember Sandford and Son wasn't good.

The list of American shows that were copies of British ones would likely surprise you. Even those considered to be American classics, like All in the Family and Sanford and Son, were copies of British shows.

Im wondering which segment of US society has a Rodney or DelBoy.
I can imagine Canal St in New York being used as a market setting for knock offs.
Do we really want to see American culture or its TV audience being subjected to a bunch of Southern pansy shandy drinkers speaking a load of bollocks that nobody else understands.
Whoever takes that on is a right PLONKER in my eyes.

I wonder what they would do with Rising Damp, Porridge, Open All Hours and Black Adder !

Will and Grace vs Gimme Gimme? No contest.

or the various Alan Partridge shows

I'd always had the impression it was a two-way street actually, wasn't there an attempt to make a British version of the The Golden Girls that was absolutely awful?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...evision_series

Law and Order(UK) isn't bad but each storyline is identical to the original US version.

Shameless US stories are all copies of the British version too (Series 1 anyway).


Can't believe they screwed up Red Dwarf so much that it didn't get passed the pilot stage.

I heard once that the yanks had done a version of Dads Army, set in New Jersey . Probably didn't last through the first season. Is nothing sacred?

"Little America" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

The second attempt to do a US version of Only Fools got canned about a year ago.

It was called "Kings of Van Nuys" and had John Leguizamo as Del Boy and Dustin Ybarra as Rodney (Donnie Trotter).