[geeks] UK geeks with DVRs?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 @ 20:49 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson said:

> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:15:40PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> > I would say it's funny how 'localising' successful shows so often
> > doesn't work, but I suppose those who are any good at making TV would
> > prefer to do something original. The only 'localised' show (and I think
> > it was more an accidental similarity rather than an intentional UK
> > version of a US show) I can think of that's better than the original is
> > BBCs "Coupling" which is a cruder and funnier version of "Friends".
> 
> Obviously you've never seen the U.S. version of "Coupling". 

Were any of them funny?

I lump the UK and US versions of most such shows in pretty low
categories, somewhere below digging lint out of my pockets.

Most sitcoms since the 80s have absolutely sucked on both sides of the
pond from my point of view.

The older US and UK shows were great, but all I see now is basically
trash.

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