I remember watching the UK office when it originally aired over here in on BBC 2 and I’m glad that it stopped at a 2nd series as it was too polarising. Ricky Gervais as david Brent just had a way of making too many feel too uncomfortable, which couldn’t be sustained.

The US version started off as a like for like but managed to progress making it their own, and subsequently Michael (Carrell) is a more likeable character. Less cringeworthy and more comic.

To remake something of the likes of spaced, you would have to understand that at it’s very heart it was a labour of love. Wright, Pegg and Hynes (nee Stevenson) wrote this themselves, it wasn’t cooked up by a team of writers. To “americanise” it would be reducing it to just another sitcom.

The problem is that with these home-brewed shows, the people involved in creating them (Whedon, Wright etc). They need so little input from the networks, that the networks start to panic and they meddle (Family guy, Firefly, TV Nation) and the shows are shutdown/censored/shown in the wrong order.

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