Look at me: Kath & Kim on US TV

July 8, 2008

US Kath & Kim ... Molly Shannon (Kath) and Selma Blair (Kim).

THE world has had its first peek at America's Kath & Kim, and except for a
muffin top, bad
fashion and cheap jewellery, the foxy ladies look nothing like the Australian
originals.

NBC, the US TV network with the rights to the American version of the Australian
sitcom,
has begun airing commercials in the US to promote the new show.

Kath has lost the neat blonde perm famously worn by Jane Turner.

The actor who plays her, former Saturday Night Live comedian Molly Shannon,
instead
sports a short, shaggy auburn hairdo with thick blonde highlights.

Kim, played by Selma Blair, is as self-centred as her Fountain Lakes
counterpart. Kim also
squeezes into clothes three sizes too small, just like Kim as played by Gina
Riley.

America's Kim, instead of feasting on fistfuls of Tiny Teddies, maintains her
pudgy
waistline with nachos.

"This is Kim," the NBC promo announces. It shows Blair, squeezed into an
undersized pink
crop top, tight green shorts and, with muffin top showing, standing with
suitcases in the
foyer of her mother's suburban Florida home.

"Mum!" Blair yells.

An alarmed Shannon rushes around a corner wearing a green jumpsuit with a black
vinyl
belt.

"I'm getting a divorce," Blair screams. "It's over."

Shannon is mortified by the news that her daughter is moving back home.

The promo ends with the show's motto: "Kath and Kim — apparently you CAN go home
again."

The American Kath & Kim starts in the US on October 9.

AAP