Not (originally) Made in America
You'd be surprised how many of our favorite shows are actually based on British telly...same dialogue, even similar looking actors!
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- CreatorAdam SteinmanStarsBen BaileyGilbert GottfriedJim PoserinaContestants unknowingly climb into a cab and try to win money by answering questions correctly on the way to their desired location.UK version:
Title: Cash Cab
Cab Driver: John Moody
Premiered: 6/13/2005
U.S. version
Cab Driver: Ben Bailey
Premiered: 12/5/2005 - CreatorJeremy CarverAnna FrickeStarsSam WitwerMeaghan RathSam HuntingtonThree twenty-somethings share a house and try to live a normal life despite being a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire.UK version
Title: Being Human
Main Cast: Aidan Turner, Lenora Crichlow, Russell Tovey
Premiered: 2/18/2008
U.S. version
Title: Being Human
Main Cast: Sam Witwer, Meghan Rath, Sam Huntington
Premiered: 1/17/2011 - CreatorDon NichollMichael RossBernard WestStarsJohn RitterJoyce DeWittSuzanne SomersThe misadventures of two women and one man living in one apartment and their neighbors.UK version
Title: A Man About the House
Main Cast: Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett
Premiered: 8/15/1973
US version
Title: Threes Company
Main Cast: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Sommers
Premiered: 3/15/1977 - CreatorGreg DanielsRicky GervaisStephen MerchantStarsSteve CarellJenna FischerJohn KrasinskiA mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, tedium and romance.UK Version
Title: The Office
Main Cast: David Brent, Tim Canterbury, Gareth Keenan
Premiered: 7/9/2001
US Version
Title: The Office
Main Cast: Michael Scott, Dwight Schrute, Jim Halpert
Premiered: 3/24/2005 - CreatorAlexandra CunninghamLynda La PlanteStarsMaria BelloBrían F. O'ByrneKirk AcevedoJane Timoney, an iconoclastic female detective, must make her bones in a tough New York precinct that is dominated by men.UK Version
Title: Prime Suspect
Main Cast: Helen Mirren
Premiered: 4/7/1991
US Version
Title: Prime Suspect
Main Cast: Maria Bello - CreatorNorman LearStarsRedd FoxxDemond WilsonLaWanda PageThe misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.UK Version
Title: Steptoe and Son
Main Cast: Harry Corbrett
Premiered: 1/4/1962
US Version
Title: Sanford and Sons
Main Cast: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson
Premiered: 1/14/1972 - CreatorArmando IannucciStarsJulia Louis-DreyfusTony HaleAnna ChlumskyFormer Senator Selina Meyer finds that being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she hoped and everything that everyone ever warned her about.UK Version
Title: The Thick of it
Premiered: 5/19/2005
US Version
Title: Veep
Premiered: 4/22/2012