The Best American Versions of British Shows
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Vote up the best US series that were originally adaptations or remakes of UK shows.
This list contains information on the best American versions of British shows, ranked from best to worst by user votes. Over the years, several great U.S shows have been developed from hit UK television. Many of the greatest adapted UK TV shows are reality competitions, but many U.S. versions of UK shows are hilarious comedies.
What kinds of wonderful television programming will you find on this best American versions of British shows list? The Office appears near the top of this list. This hilarious U.S. sitcom was created by Ricky Gervais, who also starred in the original UK version. House of Cards is another good U.S. series adapted from a British show.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was very popular in the U.S. after its initial success in the UK. Other good American versions of UK shows include Dancing with the Stars, Undercover Boss, and Kitchen Nightmares.
Which adapted British series do you think are the greatest? Vote the best shows up to the top of this list and share some of your favorite episodes in the comments section.list ordered by
- 1972 adaptation of UK series Steptoe and Son (1962 - 1974)A man runs a Los Angeles junkyard with his son.
- 1998 adaptation of UK series Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988 - 1999)Prompted by ideas from the audience, comics improvise sketches.
- 1971 adaptation of UK series Till Death Us Do Part (1972 - 1975)Archie Bunker's bigoted ideas conflict with those of everyone around him.
- 2005 adaptation of UK series The Office (2001 - 2003)Workers plod along at Dunder Mifflin's paper-supply company.
- 1987 adaptation of UK Series Antiques Roadshow (1979 - present)People bring prized possessions for evaluation.
- 1977 adaptation of UK series Man About the House (1973 - 1976)Two single girls in need of a roommate settle for Jack Tripper.
- 2011 adaptation of UK series Shameless (2004 - 2013)An addict looks for ways to beat the system and feed his habits while his kids fend for themselves.
- 2010 adaptation of UK series Who Do You Think You Are? (2004 - present)Celebrities go on a journey to trace their family tree with the help of historians and experts.
- 2005 adaptation of UK series Cash Cab (2005)Taxi cab passengers win money by answering trivia questions.
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2016 adaptation of UK series Criminal Justice (2016)
- 2003 adaptation of UK series What Not to Wear (2001 - 2007)Individuals receive fashion interventions.
- 2011 adaptation of UK series Being Human (2008 - 2010)Vampires, werewolves and ghosts struggle to have normal lives.
- 2010 adaptation of UK series MasterChef (1990 - present)Amateur chefs compete to become a culinary master and earn the title MasterChef.
- 2013 adaptation of UK series House of Cards (1990)Politicians plot revenge on those who have thwarted and betrayed them.
- 2004 adaptation of UK series Wife Swap (2003 - 2009)Trading Spouses, often advertised as Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy, is a FOX reality show in which two families, usually of different social classes, swap wives or husbands for a week. Each ...more
- 1999 adaptation of UK series Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1998 - 2014)Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is an American television quiz show based upon the British program of the same title, which offers a maximum prize of $1,000,000 for correctly answering a series of ...more
- Wife Swap (Paramount Network, 2019) is an American reality television series that is a revival of the original 2004 series on ABC. Families from the Metro Atlanta area swap the lives of the wife. In ...more
- 2009 adaptation of UK series Undercover Boss (2009 - present)Corporate execs take low-level jobs at their firms to see what really takes place.
- 2001 adaptation of the UK series The Weakest Link (2000 - 2012)The Weakest Link is a British television quiz show, mainly broadcast on BBC Two, but also on BBC One. It was devised by Fintan Coyle and Cathy Dunning, and developed for television by the BBCÂ ...more
- 2007 adaptation of UK series Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004 - 2014)
- 2001 adaptation of UK series Scrapheap Challenge (1998 - 2010)Junkyard Wars is a 1998 TV program.
- White Van Man was a British sitcom that was created and was written by Adrian Poynton and first broadcast on BBC Three and BBC HD in 2011. It began screening in March 2011, becoming the highest-rated ...more
- 2005 adaptation of UK series Hell's Kitchen (2004 - 2009)Gordon Ramsay hosts a fiery cooking competition in which the winner receives a head chef position.
- A community in Dorset, England, becomes the focus of a grisly murder investigation.
- 2004 adaptation of UK series Wife Swap (2003 - 2009)Wife Swap is a British reality television programme produced by independent television production company RDF Media and created by Stephen Lambert for Channel 4, first broadcast in 2003. In the ...more
