There was a US version of The Inbetweeners.
Awful. Just terrible. Arguably one of the worst "remakes". That and The IT Crowd and Coupling.
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Came here to post Coupling. I honestly don't even think the original holds up now, but the US version was trash from the start.
They are really bad, but nothjng ever comes close to taskmaster imo.
Ugly Betty, a pale imitation of the Colombian telenovela
Skins US, and Being Human US
I heard the US remade Utopia but I’m not even looking, it was already perfect.
It's really bad. The casting wasn't great (most actors were fine, just bad fits) and the changes they made were pretty stupid and unnecessary.
It also didn't have the slow-but-tense pacing of the original. Everything felt so rushed like it was the last couple seasons of The Boys.
I wanted to love it because I love the original but I was just hatewatching it by the 4th episode. It took a cool and unique show and dumbed it down for the lowest common denominator.
Original show was fantastic. Watched a couple episodes of the US one - you made the right choice.
the us remake of men behaving badly
They tried launching the British series The IT Crowd in many countries. The Us version never got past the pilot stage. About the only good thing was Richard Ayoade reprising his role oddly. But the simple copy and paste of the script along with the complete lack of cast chemistry doomed it from the out. I like Richard but he can't cary an entire show on his own.
Matt Berry on the other hand. He didn't come to the US/Canada till the spinoff of Watiti's New Zealand movie What We Do In The Shadows. And really kind of led and made the show. Though the entire cast there was great and had a lot of chemistry.
You should also (not) check out the American pilot of Peep Show 😬
There was a US remake of the IT Crowd. It was verbatim the UK show, but without any of the British charm. It was so bad.
ETA: i was disappointed to see Richard Ayoade was apart of it. :/
Taskmaster US comes to mind
That never happened, actually. Nope. There is no such thing. Simply a figment of your imagination.
No need to fact check me, either.
We already have Gamechanger on Dropout.tv to fill that void.
I still can't believe how unfunny and unlikable everyone was in that show.
i had completely blocked that from memory
Red Dwarf. They made a pilot. It was terrible.
I heard just today that there was a bad version of Taskmaster, despite it being successful in many other national varieties.
Which is amazing because how do you fuck up Taskmaster?
Veep felt like a step back from The Thick Of It despite being made afterwards.
It was fine, it was fun and funny. But pales compared to the British original.
They're comedy actors acting in a comedy, rather than actors doing stuff we can laugh about.
Got down voted to oblivion when I said this on Reddit a few years back. Veep is very tame in comparison
I agree. And it's much less stressful because it doesn't take itself too seriously.
The Thick of It was unique in how the comedy came from everyone and everything being incredibly serious.
The Agency can't hold a candle to its French original, Le Bureau des Legendes or, "The Bureau". The French version is so much better and more realistic spy than any other series I might have watched. It does to spies what The Wire did to drug crime and policing back int the day. At least in my opinion (I'm not French).
There's also an unlicensed version of the Spanish series "The Ministry of Time" called Timeless. I think they settled, but I also think the end result of the adapted copy (as in, changing every subject matter so it matched a US-based timeline and events, and hence cutting the whole history to the last couple centuries basically) looked...poor.