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>>>Maybe we keep steeling your ideas because they're better than the ones American TV writers can come up with.
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>>Maybe so, so why not just leave it at that? By that token they won't come up with any new ideas for the extended season.
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>But to the BBC two seasons is 12 episodes! I'm a big Ricky Gervais fan, but the Amercian version of the Office - with almost 70 episodes and counting - is considerably more prolific, every bit as funny, and a pretty good example of a good idea being carried on with respect to the original idea but definitely without relying on recycling the original material.

I haven't seen the US version but I thought the first season of The Office here was great and the second was just getting to surreal and so less funny.

The US seem better at stretching these things out like Curb Your Enthusiasm