The pile of UK TV shows getting “Translated” to “US” is growing faster than ever it seems.  Currently “Little Britain” is running in its “US” version which i can understand as the original is very “British” which of course is the point of the show. Ive seen a few episodes of the “US” version and its still got the same shocking disturbing comedy to it. Some of the characters are quite poor and not funny really the “Lady with the Dog” for one.

The “US” version of “The Office” is very good it keeps the idea of the original and adds some great ideas and characters to it and it works. Another show ive seen thats made the transition is a show called “Life on Mars”. Ive never watched it and know nothing about it but it another example of how americans need things dumbed-down or translated for them. I cant quite understand why the americans need there own special versions of these TV shows? There are a number of reasons which i can guess at;

• Accents and “British/European Sence of Humour”
• Regional problems like city names etc
• or the plain old stupid fact that americans wouldnt understand it