Back in 1999, British TV executives imported the American sitcom That 70's Show for the sole purpose of transporting their viewers back to a decade that seemed a bit more nostalgic once it was remade for a British audience.
They thought wrong.
In fact, Days Like These, was so hated by the viewers that it was cancelled after 10 of the 13 episodes aired (the other three were never seen and the entire series was buried).
Maybe the lack of success came about it because the feeling of the original show was uniquely American, or the fact that some of the cast of characters retained their American counterpart's name (Eric and Kitty Forman), while the rest of the cast names were either change entirely (Steven Hyde became Dylan Jones and Fez became Torbjorn Rasmussen) or simply had the last names changed to sound more British, but whatever it was, the show stank to high heaven.
But luckily, there's YouTube and now we Anglophiles have the privilege of seeing one of our original shows raped and murdered the way we did to the British shows: Coupling, Skins, Men Behaving Badly and The Inbetweeners.
It seems like a just punishment.
Watch 8 episodes of the series after the break.
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