Peep This Bitches

Apparently someone the US is looking to make an American version of Peep Show...AGAIN!!!

It will mark the fifth attempt to remake Peep Show stateside. In 2005, Fox cast Johnny Galecki in the lead of a pilot that wasn’t picked up before Spike TV developed another in 2008, set to be written by Armstrong and Bain, but it never came to fruition. There was another attempt by Starz in 2016 and most recently, in 2019 FX tried again with Community writer Karey Dornetto. Peep Show became Channel 4’s longest-running comedy starting in 2003 and ending in 2015. It starred David Mitchell and Robert Webb and also featured Olivia Colman in an early role. Mitchell and Webb said in a 2021 interview that they would consider a new series when they are in their 60s.

I mean for fuck's sake already. Not only is it entirely unnecessary to make American versions of British shows now that we have such better - tho not exhaustive - access to all the great shows via streaming services, but Peep Show in particular is a hard show to pull off anyway, with its crazy pioneering style of being inside the characters' heads at all times. Supremely unique, supremely FUNNY!!, and this is supremely unnecessary. They stopped trying to make Fawlty Towers after three tries, I can't believe they're still trying with this classic which is in the Xmastime Britcom Pantheon!!!

Grrrrrr.