“Cheers” remake in the works!

Who's going to be black? Carla or Diane?

No one asked for this.

Are original sitcom ideas really that difficult to conjure up? Jesus.

Yes, it’s a remake and set in Britain but it is a British remake. We aren’t making it, the Brits are. A British TV exec decided to remake the iconic series over 30 years since the original American version ended.

I’m shocked this show wasn’t made while ours was on air.

Each episode focuses everyone's love of jellied eels

A British show based around a pub? Groundbreaking.

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What's next? A British remake of Life with Lucy?

Life with Lucy wasn’t a huge #1 series

They wanted Lucy to play Carla but Gary talked her out of it.

I guess I wonder why it would be made now.

At the peak of US making UK shows they were unknown to us and it made sense to rework them, but I have to imagine in this day and age a fair number of UK folks not only know of Cheers but have actually seen episodes. So the element of freshness and/or surprise is gone.

[quote]Life with Lucy wasn’t a huge #1 series

And it didn't have Norm.

They did attempt a British remake of Wings back in 1997. I’m kind of surprised they didn’t try this earlier.

Plus their disastrous Golden Girls.

R10 what are you talking about? Cheers aired all over the world and was a huge hit in the UK

R14 I didn't know that, but that was my point anyway - that most people in the UK would have known Cheers or seen it somehow by now.

There is an episode of Friends where they are in London and Joey turns on the TV and Cheers is on. This was because Cheers was constantly on reruns in the UK throughout the 90s because of how popular it was.

R15 you didn’t know that Cheers, a #1 show aired in other countries? Like Friends, The Cosby Show, Threes Company etc. they all were popular overseas also. Our tv shows weren’t exclusive to us. And some of our shows were remakes of British shows.

r16 Yes, I'm well aware many of our shows were remakes of British originals. That was my ENTIRE FUCKING POINT at R10. But in those days, US audiences wouldn't have seen the UK originals.

I didn't live in the UK so no, I had no idea to what exact extent they were shown there, but I assume most of the shows from the last 30-40 years were shown to some extent that they'd be familiar to UK audiences. Which, again, was my ENTIRE FUCKING POINT at R10 - that a Cheers remake now is confusing when the originals would be so familiar to UK audiences.

I’m surprised — usually it’s artsy-fartsy BBC that comes up with ideas, and conveyor belt Hollywood gloms onto them.

Not the other way ‘round.

Will they all have big, buck teeth?

A bunch of friends hanging around a pub drinking is already the plot of about half the sitcoms made over the last 50 years over here. Only this one is a remake of a sitcom most people moved on from decades ago at a time when the pub trade is dying. Interesting choice.

Was it Friends that was a copy of Coupling or vice versa?

I know NBC eventually tried their own version of Coupling but it flopped.

Emma Watson would make a suitable Diane

In the '90s, the British successfully remade "Who's the Boss?" (1984-1992) as "The Upper Hand" (1990-1996).

I never heard of it until fairly recently, but it had a lengthy run over there.

R21 - it was vice versa - Coupling came after.

People always compared the two but I found them to be uniquely different shows - just 3 young women and 3 young male friends. I really liked Coupling - particularly the Jane character.

The US version of Coupling was stupid - felt like it was fucked with too much and 'americanized' - but it watered it down.

One of my favorite shows.

[quote] They did attempt a British remake of Wings back in 1997

But…why?

It's been forty years. It's not like they're adapting Succession.

I was molested at a bar in Boston.

Will it be set in the Queen Vic?