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10 British TV Shows Stolen From America

September 20th, 2012 By hecklerspray staff

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.

Larry David Still Finds Curb Your Enthusiasm Fun. Lucky Him.

August 25th, 2011 By Michael Park

Larry David, the man who’s brought us partially ad-libbed cringe comedy for the last THREE HUNDRED YEARS has told ESPN New York that he is still having fun filming Curb Your Enthusiasm. This statement flies in the face of criticism from some corners of the press which suggest that the show has lost its way.

David, responsible for being part of the team that brought us the equally diabolical Seinfeld, in which unlikeable cockhorse Jerry Seinfeld jogged through life in (admittedly wonderful) trainers while making bland observations about everyday occurrences.

This was all while his equally neurotic friends jogged their way miserably through their own lives, somehow finding them enriched by Jerry’s incessant bland observations.

TV Review: Trinny & Susannah – From Boom to Bust, Channel 4, Thursday, 30 September, 9pm

August 5th, 2012 By Mof Gimmers

Despite being kinda overrated, it is universally agreed that Curb Your Enthusiasm is quite good. Once it aired in Britain and got something of a cult following from people Who Don’t Normally Watch Much TV, people who worked in telly decided that we needed our own equivalent.

Of course, we already had our own equivalent in The Office, Extras and years back, Alan Partridge. Not all the same freewheeling ad-libbery, but all exercises in laughing through your fingers. Extras, most notably, was the show that went about pull apart the notion of what we had about participating sleb-plebs.

Which brings us to Trinny & Susannah: From Boom to Bust (Channel 4, Thursday, 30 September, 9pm).

Entire Seinfeld Cast Reunites Forever. For Now.

March 25th, 2009 By Shawn Lindseth

The 90s were a decade in which hecklerspray spent most of its time picking food off of dead cats under parental supervision.

The things we were picking off them were typically ice cream, maraschino cherries and large dollops of whipped cream. Our father was a dinnerware-themed taxidermist, you see, and our mother’s passion was frozen dairy – the rarest of combinations.

Half the time we were eating milk products out of hollowed dead mice, we did so in front of Seinfeld, which was something we westerners like to call a ‘sitcom.’

Speaking of which – it’s coming back you know.

Kinda.

Win A Big Load Of Curb Your Enthusiasm Stuff RIGHT NOW

August 7th, 2012 By Stuart Heritage

We love Curb Your Enthusiasm. of course we do. It’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, for god’s sake. People who don’t love it are weird.

And with the back-to-its-best sixth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm hitting these shores on June 9, we thought it might be time to give you the chance to win a Curb Your Enthusiasm prize so incredible that it’s all we can do not to fake a new identity and give the prize to ourselves. Courtesy of HBO video, you can win a kickass Curb Your Enthusiasm goody bag containing:

A Curb Your Enthusiasm season six boxset,