Wetlook World Forum

...a series that they tried to re-make in the USA a couple of months ago..using an American cast instead...and it got cancelled after only 2 shows...American tv execs will never learn. Coupling was largely a politically incorrect British rip off of Friends...so the Brits turn Friends into "Coupling"....and it becomes a huge hit in the UK..so then the Americans want to buy Coupling back for American audiences...but they insist on replacing all the cast with American actors, and editing out anything lewd or politically incorrect (which was 90% of what the show was about)..and so what is left is bland and boring and  nothing funny at all...so no wonder why it got cancelled after 2 shows.

American tv execs stubbornly refuse to air British comedy shows on the major networks..they insist on re-making them  instead.

Their next BIG mistake will be the American version of "The Office" when it debuts this year. That UK show has been sold to over 20 countries "as is"...but the USA insists on "re-making" that show with American actors instead...and NOBODY can emulate what Ricky Gervais has done...so that will be doomed to failure too.

Heck..I wish I had a job as a tv excecutive who buys programming...cos I can smell a failed series a mile away. Yeah...I would love that job...you would soon get American versions of Bob's Your Uncle and a female version of Mann O Mann show all day long...ha ha