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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
Well sorry, no one over here knows or cares i guess. Out of all those you listed the only one i know is Mr Humphries. I guess british shows just don't do well over here because people can't relate to them in the same way.
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You have never heard of Basil Fawlty? You'd be surprised just how many shows you watch are of British origin. the Office is on obvious one but what about Cosby? American Idol? Shameless? Sanford and Son? Dancing with the Stars? and loads and loads more.
You could well be right about people bit being able to relate to them as the Americanised versions of British shows are in the main pretty dreadful and do not stand up to the original (to a Brit), the same with American shows remade for us over here, 9 times out of ten they fail dreadfully.
I'm a big sitcom fan and have watch quite a few American shows and (again as a Brit) they just do not compare to ours, your style of writing is so different, you seem to have as many joke rammed in as possible even if the jokes are really weak while its not unusual for a British sitcom not to have anything funny happen for minutes at a time if it helps the plot along. I'd say the closest an American sitcom has gotten to the British style is Frasier.