ABC loyalists are working themselves into a lather over plans to
rewrite Kath and Kim as an American sitcom. Rick McKenna, executive
producer of K&K, is talking to Ben Silverman, who turned the British
comedy The Office into the American comedy The Office, about doing a
similar job on our favourite suburban mums. Apparently the Americans
want to position K&K as "Roseanne meets Ab Fab" - which suggests
they see the ladies as self-deluding trailer trash (and they may be
correct).

"The criteria for us, if this ever eventuates, is you can't take it
and then turn it into Friends," says McKenna. "Ben gets the
sensibility of it and you detect he would put up the good fight to
ensure those elements that are key to the values of Kath and Kim are
adhered to."

But on the ABC website, the fans are gropeable. David says "It's
just going to be ruined and unappreciated just like The Office.
Can't the yanks come up with their own ideas? Does anything belong
to us any more?" Rose asks "Why can't the Americans for once just
watch a series as it was meant to be! We have to watch their never-
ending sitcoms without a requirement for translation. If they are
too thick to understand it as it is, then they don't deserve to
watch it at all."

Lets help the rewriters to get it right. Create a few lines of
dialogue for the US version of K&K and send them to us, below
(making sure to indicate where the canned laughter should go). While
you're at it, suggest which two American actresses would do justice
to the roles.

Posted by Stay in Touch
September 25, 2006 09:02 AM

Source:
http://blogs.smh.com.au/sit/archives/2006/09/scandals.html