I’ve had my fill of Del and Rodney Trotter’s misadventures and I’d be happy if they never made another episode. Every so often, if I’m so inclined and stumble across one, I’ll pop an old episode on the box, but I’ll never ever make the effort to hunt it down.
I know that if I were to argue that ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES isn’t that good a TV show that I’d face an overwhelming amount of backlash, so I won’t even bother. I think it’s on OK show that has some memorable and funny moments, which I guess you could argue occasionally encapsulate the essence of ‘British humour’. It has long since ran its course and should remain as a relic easily accessible from any home in Britain. So why on earth have the U.S decided to remake it?
As of yet there’s no conrete information and so the only thing we can do is speculate. Senior US TV executives have allegedly commissioned a pilot and apparently Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley, writers on such shows as HAPPY ENDINGS and SCRUBS, are currently scribbling away at the new pilot. It comes as no surprise that ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES is getting a US remake, but it just seems a little redundant.
US remakes such as THE OFFICE have surprised us with their outstanding quality but in this instance I think we can expect more dross similar to the likes of US SKINS and SHAMELESS. Shows that both of which, when I caught snippets, appeared to consist almost entirely of musically driven look-at-the-taboo-thing-I’m-doing action scenes. This isn’t in the spirit of ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES though and to be fair was for SKINS and SHAMELESS, so who knows the U.S remake might not be terrible, but probably will be.
