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Okay, been on my mind all day and I would like peoples opinions on it.

Americans have ruined British television shows by doing shoddy and cheap remakes, I've composed a list of some of the shows that I feel have been ruined in the last 10 years or so.

1) Skins
2) Top Gear
3) Life on Mars
4) Fawlty Towers (Old but gold)
5) Red Dwarf
6) The Inbetweeners

They're just a few of many television shows remade in America that have turned out rubbish! Your thoughts on those remakes.
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Never watched any of those shows.

However, I prefer seasons 1-3 of the US version of The Office, to the UK version.

The UK version is terrible, and I usually take a liking to decent british humor.
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Out of those ive only seen the Inbetweeners and the American remakes were awful
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Seregor wrote Never watched any of those shows.

However, I prefer seasons 1-3 of the US version of The Office, to the UK version.

The UK version is terrible, and I usually take a liking to decent british humor.


That has to be the only show I agree with. Love the US version of the office, just feel Ricky Gervais ruined the UK version
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Seregor wrote Never watched any of those shows.

However, I prefer seasons 1-3 of the US version of The Office, to the UK version.

The UK version is terrible, and I usually take a liking to decent british humor.


I can agree, UK Office is god awful.
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I've only seen both versions of top gear and I completely agree! The original version of top gear far exceeds the remake.
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The IT Crowd got a pilot episode but didn't get past that. I really don't know why they thought that they could replicate a Graham Linehan show.
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Haven't seen any of those, I'm American by the way.
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To me, Top Gear and The Inbetweeners were the two that stuck out most as having the worst American remakes.
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Powercell wrote
Okay, been on my mind all day and I would like peoples opinions on it.

Americans have ruined British television shows by doing shoddy and cheap remakes, I've composed a list of some of the shows that I feel have been ruined in the last 10 years or so.

1) Skins
2) Top Gear
3) Life on Mars
4) Fawlty Towers (Old but gold)
5) Red Dwarf
6) The Inbetweeners

They're just a few of many television shows remade in America that have turned out rubbish! Your thoughts on those remakes.


Personally i can't stand british TV at all, but i get what you mean when you say that our remakes are indeed worse, because they are...
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