Viability

You know when some downmarket mass clothing store takes a fashion from the catwalks of Paris and knocks it out in some synthetic fabric sewn in Taiwan so that everyone on the high street can wear it? Yeah, well, this isn't like that.

This is more like....taking a fine recipe, French cuisine say, and adapting it so that it can be doled out in two-portion microwaveable containers from Tesco.

Yes, they're doing it again. The American TV industry is stealing and downgrading British and Aussie TV programmes.
Life on Mars. Great cast, looked hopeful from the trailers, but seeing a couple of scenes and...well, even with Harvey Keitel and Michael Imperioli, it just seemed flat.

Kath and Kim. One of the best comedies EVER, but its humour was based largely on an already established Aussie comedy duo making fun of a certain layer of their own society. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch an ep, but the trailers just look dismal.

It would be like trying to set Dan and Roseanne outside of working class USA, it wouldn't be viable, it would die on the operating table.

BUT....we watched an ep of Little Britain USA, and there were laughs to be had. Yes, it was watered down, no, Daffyd wasn't in it - at least this week, but Lucas and Walliams are still doing it and have introduced some American characters. It might just live.

We'll see.