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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 438263" data-attributes="member: 23">Yes, MATH ran less than forty episodes in total. It had actually wrapped up before Three&#039;s Company began, so technically there would have been enough material for almost two full-length American seasons, but yes, that would have then been followed by a (probably quite jarring) change in writers.For what it&#039;s worth, I&#039;d say Monty Python and (to a lesser extent) Benny Hill are somewhat &quot;out there&quot; by British standards, too. I&#039;ve seen some of both but I never really found Benny Hill terribly funny, and the Python material, experimental as it was, seems to be a Curate&#039;s egg.I&#039;m always intrigued about the (relatively small) number of British sitcoms that seem to make it across the Atlantic. Keeping Up Appearances and Are You Being Served? seem to have been popular Stateside, while most other vehicles from their respective writers don&#039;t seem to have been. AbFab has elements -&nbsp; wry, cynical outlook and often unlikeable characters - that I&#039;ve seen cited as being off-putting to non-Brits. I remember feeling surprised when I realised it was a hit in America.None of this is problematic for me, but count me as slightly bemused about the reasons behind this block. Just when I think I&#039;ve worked it out, there&#039;s a spanner in the works.It seems comedy is one area where we are indeed &quot;two nations separated by a common language&quot;.&nbsp; It could be interesting to study, but I suppose someone in TV land has already done that and decided that remaking British series is a safer/preferable option than screening the originals.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 438263, member: 23"] Yes, [I]MATH[/I] ran less than forty episodes in total. It had actually wrapped up before [I]Three's Company[/I] began, so technically there would have been enough material for almost two full-length American seasons, but yes, that would have then been followed by a (probably quite jarring) change in writers. For what it's worth, I'd say Monty Python and (to a lesser extent) Benny Hill are somewhat "out there" by British standards, too. I've seen some of both but I never really found Benny Hill terribly funny, and the Python material, experimental as it was, seems to be a Curate's egg. I'm always intrigued about the (relatively small) number of British sitcoms that seem to make it across the Atlantic. [I]Keeping Up Appearances[/I] and [I]Are You Being Served?[/I] seem to have been popular Stateside, while most other vehicles from their respective writers don't seem to have been. [I]AbFab [/I]has elements - wry, cynical outlook and often unlikeable characters - that I've seen cited as being off-putting to non-Brits. I remember feeling surprised when I realised it was a hit in America. None of this is problematic for me, but count me as slightly bemused about the reasons behind this block. Just when I think I've worked it out, there's a spanner in the works. It seems comedy is one area where we are indeed "two nations separated by a common language". It could be interesting to study, but I suppose someone in TV land has already done that and decided that remaking British series is a safer/preferable option than screening the originals. [/QUOTE]

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