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While spending some quiet time surfing Youtube, It occured to me that there is countless dramas, series and gameshows that have been copied from the UK and made into an American format. Although I might be a bit optimistic, let's think of everything and make a list of ALL the shows you can think of which are direct / indirect copies of UK ones.

I'll start with:

The Office,
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

Dragon Den and American Inventor?

I think the Japanese should be more pissed off about that, they've ripped like 20 Japanese horror movies.

Anyhow, does Pop Idol count? I mean, like everyone's ripped off Pop Idol.

Off the top of my head I know they tried and failed with Coupling, One Foot In the Grave, red dwarf, fawlty towers (A serious travesty BTW!) and Dear John.

They did fairly well with Junkyard Wars, The Weakest Link, Deal or no deal (They stole the British format rather than the original dutch one) and as you've mentioned The Office, Millionaire and all the pop idol/x has got talent style shows.

Jury's still out on their versions of Peep show but lets face it they're going to do an absolutely rubbish job.

It's not just the UK, in Germany there is a show called "Verliebt in Berlin"(translates to smittened\doting in Berlin) which is basically the story of a stereo-typically unattractive girl who ends up getting a job in a fashion company. And she's the ye old fashoned frizzy hair, glasses, short, etc. Now, in the US there's a show, called "Ugly Betty" which is basically a rip off.

Ugly Betty is actually based off the Spanish version of the show so it sounds like the Germans ripped them off too.

Ah, Family Fortunes!

I think we nicked that one off of them actually.

Yep seems your right

Now that I think of it, I can also think of stuff copied from Korean movies. My Sassy Girl, a remake of the original one from 2001. The Boathouse.. or Lighthouse.. or something - A copy of the 1999 film Il Mare.