CBS's Ghosts borrowed a vital sitcom trick.
Summary Although CBS’s Ghosts has its own unique appeal, the U.S. remake of a UK sitcom did borrow one clever adaptation trick from an earlier cult classic. It can be hard for American remakes to capture the tone and appeal of their predecessors. Humor is famously subjective and often reliant on cultural context, so jokes that were hilarious in an English TV comedy can fall flat when remade for an American audience.
Related Ghosts Season 4: Confirmation & Everything We Know CBS' uproarious comedy series Ghosts has spooked up a big audience across its first three seasons, and now it will return for season 4. Ghosts clearly learned from The Office as the series ensured that the UK show’s central conceit remained intact but didn’t import many main characters. While Sam and Jay are often effectively carbon copies of Mike and Allison, they are also the show’s human characters. Almost all the ghosts are unique to the new show, much like The Office’s inhabitants. This explains how Ghosts has borrowed The Office’s successful strategy for translating a TV comedy from Britain to America.
Failed British Comedy Remakes Generally Miss Ghosts’ Best Trick The Inbetweeners and IT Crowd Remakes Stuck To The Source Material While CBS’s Ghosts has fared well when it comes to the show’s ratings, the same cannot be said for every attempt to remake a classic British sitcom in America. In 2007, Richard Ayoade reprised his role as Moss in a remake of The IT Crowd.
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