I was starting to get excited about North American channels importing directly from BBC. But, in the spirit of The Office, Fox is going to be adapting two British series. Variety has:
Fox Entertainment prexy Kevin Reilly, who found success at NBC adapting the Britcom “The Office” for U.S. auds, is looking to do the same with a few more U.K. imports this season.
Net has picked up two comedy pilots based on British formats: “Outnumbered” and “Spaced.”
I haven’t heard much about these 2 series, so I wonder if they wouldn’t be served better to be directly imported in their original form. Hopefully the translation will be more The Office and less Life on Mars.
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“Spaced” was the first collaboration material for Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, who created “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3342539
I highly doubt that they’ll do better than the original.