I’d love to receive a guided tour of the scrapheap where failed American remakes of excellent British TV shows go to die. Ladies and gentlemen, if you look to your left, you will see the withered corpse of Gracepoint, the Broachchurch remake cancelled after one season. To your right, the decaying carcass of the also-cancelled, risible take on Life On Mars. You might spot the debris of one of the three separate Fawlty Towers remakes – none of which ever managed to air a full season. If you’re really lucky you might glimpse the remains of never-at-all-aired Us & Them (née Gavin & Stacey).
The IT Crowd, The Inbetweeners, Spaced, Ab Fab, Coupling, Skins: for every The Office (US) and House of Cards you’ll find a thousand less fortunate victims of the American obsession with remaking British shows.
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