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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.
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>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.
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>The US seem better at stretching these things out like Curb Your Enthusiasm
I don't know if you are getting 30 Rock or My Name is Earl over there yet, but for my money they are the funniest things on US TV right now.
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