Jæja, þá er búið að ganga frá því hvað kemur í staðin fyrir Friends. Þeir á Stöð 2 eru byrjaðir að sýna bresku útgáfuna kl. 21:00 á miðvikudögum. Þeir sem hafa séð þessa þætti endilega látið vita hvernig þeir eru. Persónulega finnst mér Friends miklu betri. Ég læt fréttina fylgja með.



NBC buys rights to Coupling

The British TV comedy Coupling has been bought by NBC to replace Friends in the USA.

Friends is set to end after nine years leading the all-important Thursday night slot in the USA. NBC has secured the rights to Coupling, which is screened in the USA on cable channel BBC America.

The team behind Coupling in the UK will remake it in Los Angeles with a cast of American actors. There is no word yet on who will make up the cast for the US version.

The UK show stars Jack Davenport,who found fame in lawyer drama This Life, plus Gina Bellman, Sarah Alexander, Kate Isitt, Ben Miles and Richard Coyle.

Coupling centres on the lives, well sex lives, of a group of thirtysomethings. The strength of Coupling is in the brilliant script written by Stephen Moffat. He is destined to follow in the footsteps of comedy writer Richard curtis who wrote successful British comedies Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill.

Ben Silverman, the producer overseeing the project for NBC, said: “We think Coupling would be a perfect show for the fans of Friends. It’s kind of a next-generation sitcom. It is really honest and edgy.”

Translating British comedy shows to the US can be fraught with difficulties. One Foot in the Grave died a death without Richard Wilson as the irascible Victor Meldrew. Roseanne Barr bought Jennifer Saunders’s Absolutely Fabulous but the US version was not successful.