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Originally Posted by Jason.

No thanks

They butchered the Inbetweeners.

The humour and characters did not translate at all to the US... really abysmal... I feel like Misfits would be exactly the same ** IF ** they try to go for a "direct remake" but could be a great show if they just take the general concept of some not-traditionally-heroic-type petty criminals getting super powers but form an entirely new story around that. Not trying to copy the UK version's characters or storylines.

I'd say the US Office is an example of that working, and not working. I know it's a "love it or hate it" sort of show (I personally love it) but for the first season / season and a half they were trying to directly copy the UK version, sometimes almost scene for scene, and it just didn't work at all. A lot of people probably gave up on S1, I'd imagine. After that it went off on a completely different tangent of its own, allowed itself to be a bit more optimistic, a bit friendlier, "a bit more American" and if you take it as completely its own show it is a very high quality comedy.

So yeah... basically I'm up for it, but it'll bomb badly if they try to just have "US versions of the original characters". I hope that's not the route it's going for.