Americans just can't seem to get enough British TV at the moment. Sherlock, Life on Mars, Antiques Roadshow, Outnumbered, Footballers? Wives, Celebrity Fit Club, Richard Blackwood?s Renaissance Showdown ? they?ll remake practically anything it seems, even British programmes that they've already remade.
First Britain created Pop Idol. Then America snapped it up. Then Britain created The X Factor (essentially the same show as Pop Idol ? but with red). Now America has their very own X Factor (American Idol ? but with red).
The Yanks love bad British TV so much that they've even snapped up Jeremy Kyle to present exactly the same show as the one that he presents here ? but in the US! He might have lost the intense neon blue lighting that made his programme seem like it was being presented from within an ultraviolet fly killer and gained a really small washed-out picture of the New York skyline, but essentially it's the same ? the same types of people, the same completely-unqualified-to-comment-on-anything advice being dished out, etc. Oh, how things were different way back when.