Americanizing Other Nation's Shows: BBC Being Human vs. SyFy Being Human?

[Linus]

Originally Posted by June

I think Americans should watch nothing but American shows made by Americans lest we further destroy our economy and firm moral fiber.

Or.

I don't understand why we need to bastardize and claim things. Although, I did enjoy both the British and US versions of The Office. Some shows translate just fine though, but are not shown widely. Like that Dawn French show The Vicar. I was just mad for that, and to my knowledge, they never remade it here.

Do we do it to anything but the British shows? Did any other country ever steal Green Acres? I can see that going over well in France.

I think a couple of Canadian shows were "borrowed".

And ya, Dawn French's The Vicar of Dibley would be hard to remake here.

There was also the IT Crowd which was redone for the US but never took off (it still does well, I believe, in the UK and I happen to love the British version).