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Encyclopedia > List of U.S. television series remade for the British market

Although most United States-made television series are directly exported to the United Kingdom using the original production and cast, some successful shows have been remade for the British market. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ...


It is far more common for a successful British show to be remade for an American audience since U.S. citizens are generally less likely to be acquainted with British accents, media, and culture than vice versa.


The following list include American TV shows and concepts remade for a British audience.

US original UK remake
American Gladiators Gladiators
Beauty and the Geek Beauty and the Geek
Blockbusters Blockbusters
Candid Camera Candid Camera
Card Sharks Play Your Cards Right
College Bowl University Challenge
The Disney Club The Disney Club
Family Feud Family Fortunes
Gambit Gambit
The Golden Girls The Brighton Belles
Good Times The Fosters
Greed - Chuck Woolery Greed -- Jerry Springer
Hollywood Squares Celebrity Squares
The Larry Sanders Show Bob Martin
Mad About You Loved By You
Married... with Children Married For Life
Match Game Blankety Blank
Maude Nobody's Perfect
Murder in Small Town X The Murder Game
Pimp My Ride Pimp My Ride
The Price is Right The Price is Right/Bruce's Price is Right
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy Queer Eye for the Straight Guy UK
Saturday Night Live Saturday Live/Friday Night Live
Sid Caesar Invites You Sid Caesar Invites You UK
Supermarket Sweep Supermarket Sweep
That '70s Show Days Like These
The Apprentice - Donald Trump The Apprentice - Sir Alan Sugar

NOTE: US version aired in the UK on BBC3 is known as The Apprentice USA. American Gladiators was a TV show which ran between 1989 and 1996. ... the last gladiators logo Gladiators was a game show shown on ITV in the United Kingdom from 1992 to 1999, (though there was another, not televised, game in 2000) an adaption of the United States game show American Gladiators, which had developed a cult following in the UK through its... The cast of Beauty and the Geek season one. ... Beauty and the Geek is a reality television show, first aired in Britain on E4 on February 7th 2006, following the success of the format in the USA, and was advertised similarly as the the Ultimate Social Experiment. The first series ended on 14th March, and will be shown again... A game in progress on the British Bob Holness-hosted version of Blockbusters. ... Candid Camera is a long-running television series, created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially appeared on radio as Candid Microphone in the 1940s, then screened in the United States in the 1950s, with local versions produced around the world. ... Card Sharks was an American television game show in which contestants guessed whether a playing card was higher or lower than the card that preceded it. ... Play Your Cards Right was a British television game show based on the American show known as Card Sharks. ... College Bowl Company, Incorporated runs and operates the College Bowl format of quizbowl. ... Typical setup University Challenge is a long-running British television quiz show. ... Family Feud is a popular television game show that pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed of 100 people. ... Family Fortunes was a very long-running British game show, based on the American game show Family Feud. ... Gambit was a game show produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions, and aired on CBS from September 4, 1972 to December 10, 1976. ... The Golden Girls was a popular sitcom that originally aired Saturday nights on NBC from September 14, 1985 to September 7, 1992. ... Good Times is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast from February 1, 1974 until August 1, 1979 on the CBS television network. ... Greed was an American television game show where a team of contestants answered a series of multiple-choice trivia questions for a potential prize of up to $2 million (later $4 million). ... Chuck Woolery, 2003 Chuck Woolery (born March 16, 1941) is a popular game show host. ... Greed was an American television game show where a team of contestants answered a series of multiple-choice trivia questions for a potential prize of up to $2 million (later $4 million). ... Gerald Norman Jerry Springer (born February 13, 1944 in Hampstead, London, England) is a former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, who hosts a television program bearing his name, The Jerry Springer Show. ... The Hollywood Squares title screen The Hollywood Squares is an American television comedy and game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money and prizes. ... Hollywood Squares is a American television comedy and game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money and prizes. ... The Larry Sanders Show was a satirical television series that originally aired from 1992 to 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the USA. It starred former stand-up comedian Garry Shandling as the shows vain, self-obsessed, neurotic host, Larry Sanders. ... Fighting Bob Martin (November 11, 1897 _ 1978) was a heavyweight boxing champion who became the Heavyweight Champion of the American Expeditionary Forces and Inter-Allied Armies during World War I. He fought against future heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney, in 1918, but lost in 4 rounds. ... Mad About You is a United States sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 24, 1999. ... Married… with Children is a long-running American sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. ... Match Game was a long-running American television game show in which contestants teamed with celebrities trying to answer fill-in-the-blank questions. ... Blankety Blank was a British game show based on the American game show Match Game. ... For other uses, see Maude (disambiguation) Maude is a half-hour American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 29, 1978. ... Murder in Small Town X was an American reality television series that aired on FOX from July through September 2001. ... The Murder Game is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Pimp My Ride is a TV show originally shown on MTV, with the first episode airing on March 4, 2004. ... Pimp My Ride is a TV show originally shown on MTV, with the first episode airing on March 4, 2004. ... The Price Is Right is a popular game show based on contestants guessing the retail prices of featured prizes and other promotional products. ... Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is an hour-long American television series that premiered on the Bravo cable television network on July 15, 2003, and promptly became both a surprise hit (at least by the standards of cable TV) and one of the most talked-about television programs of... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... Innovative television comedy and music show broadcast in the UK by Channel 4 from 1985 to 1987. ... Supermarket Sweep was a game show that originated on the ABC Network from December 20, 1965 to July 14, 1967. ... That 70s Show is an American television sitcom centered on the lives of a group of teenagers living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin during the late 1970s. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Apprentice: The Ultimate Job Interview, known more commonly as just The Apprentice, is a reality television show that originated in the United States on NBC. The show is hosted by Donald Trump and the final prize is a job with a starting contract of one year at a hefty... It has been suggested that Donald J. Trump Signature Collection be merged into this article or section. ... The Apprentice is a television programme, first aired in the UK in 2005. ... Sir Alan Sugar in The Apprentice. ... BBC Three, the replacement for BBC Choice, is a British television channel from the BBC broadcasting only on digital cable, terrestrial and satellite. ...

Wheel of Fortune Wheel of Fortune
Who's the Boss? The Upper Hand
Win Ben Stein's Money Win Beadle's Money
Wipeout Wipeout

See also: List of British television series remade for the US market Wheel of Fortune is a television game show originally devised by Merv Griffin which runs in local editions around the world. ... Cast of Whos the Boss? Whos the Boss? was a television sitcom starring Tony Danza that aired for eight seasons on ABC from 1984 to 1992. ... The Upper Hand was a sitcom, produced by Central Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. ... Win Ben Steins Money was an American television game show that ran from 1997 to 2003 on Comedy Central. ... Wipeout was a short-lived U.S. game show, which aired in 1988 with Peter Tomarken hosting. ... Many successful British TV shows (particularly sitcoms) have been remade for the American market. ...



 

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