I was just looking at a bit of the US version of what, in its original version is one of my favourite sit-coms, Kath and Kim. Not really a great experience.

Here's a bit of the Aussie version , and here's a bit of the US remake.

It set me thinking about all the other US versions of TV showqs and films which have been a success in their origonal English language versions, and I was trying to thinio if there have been any which an objective critic would think was an improvement.

It is a pretty strange phenomenenon. I can't think of any cases where it's happened the other way, where a US series or film has been rewritten and re-made to make it palatable or comprehensible to an audience in some other country. Does it ever happen?