I have no doubt that an americanized version will be very popular in America because they will remove all the profanity and references to drugs and sex and bodily functions, all the quirky throw-away moments, all the film references (since nobody in the target audience has ever heard of, say, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest), as well as all the humor and turn it into an insipid Three's Company clone. They will also replace all the ordinary looking actors with above-average to stunning looking actors with no talent.

Oh, and I'm an American, by the way.

This is simply asstastic news.

so maybe this will work out, huh?

Also, no american audience yet has liked a sitcom about a bunch of poor slackers. They like slick young professionals, look at Friends, Frazier, Seinfield, Will and Grace and pick one that doesn't have a labrynthine apartment and money to burn. Spaced ain't about that, its about poor nerdy normals getting by and caring for one another. It's like the Wombles for grown-ups, but without the tree-hugging and gay.

I struggle to think of a less appropriate writer than that dick that does Will and Grace (possibly the least funny 30 mins ever on telly).

How on earth are tehy going to adapt an episode like Uncovered? E and Raving? slackers?

This was inevitable, but sadly pitiful.

I read somewhere that the difference between American and British comedy is that in American comedy every episode will have a clear winner, and in British comedy every episode will have a clear loser. America just doesn't seem to do loser comedy very well.

I really feel for my TB brethren.

C'mon fucks why not remake Abigail's Party or some Dennis Potter such as The Singing Detective. Oh.

"Hi! I'm Ed Winchester!"

I remember reading about an Americanised version of Red Dwarf. That would have been shit. Did it ever happen?

and The Fast Show was insane genious- "Of course, we were very, very, drunk"

or "Scorchio!"

4) Black Books,

5) The Office

6) Extras

Fuck it, we can probably do this for hours.

Admittedly there has also been the utter shit of 2 Pints of Lager and its various clones that pollute BBC 3.

and wasn't Teachers a comedy-drama thing?

Channel 4 is far worse than it was in the early nineties- which is a real shame and can be traced straight to the rise of Reality TV.

Brass Eye is fucking magic though.

Screenwipe is on BBC 4 tonight (at least I think it is) and that always reduces me to tears of laughter.

Seriously, no film geek worth his salt is stuck with a lame one-region player.

Don't be that guy.

Emeraldboy- you mean Ugly Betty- chicks love that (well the missus does). It really isn't aimed at us- not unlike SATC.

I do miss The Fast Show. So many funny things, which just got funnier and funnier the more they repeated them.

I do seem to have been particularly grumpy in the TB lately since that cocksucker MOM set me off the other day quoting Yung Guns 2 as a threat in the Megan Fox TB.

stop going to meetings and go back to temple!

Whoever said that the thing to do is make the Landlady a hard-core Christian is totally missing the point. She is a disgusting old wino.