Quite enjoyed this. Thinking the 'I love you' makes sense in context of UK Jez, sticking to his principles over getting laid, and US Jez, just evaded getting shot. These might have not been prime pilot material for viewers not accustomed to Jez's lack of principles, and the gun thing sticks out as UK writers do US. Still it made me smile. Would it be worthwhile someone reaching out to the producers, or is this material likely still bound up in ownership issues?
Quality work, Andrew! Just a thought: if this was an aborted project it's possible, in fact likely, the sound mix was never completed. This sounds like partly a rough mix to me.
That was quite funny. The Mark is quite bland but Jez and Toni were very good. Miles better than the other pilot of which I couldn’t even get past the first minute.
Trying to imagine the American Super Hans or the American Johnson is fun. Super Hans is tough but Johnson would translate very readily to an American character.
Americans like absolutely fucking themselves up with prescription type pills, that's the way I'd go with the character. Johnson would fit in in America, you'd probably have to make the character even more exaggerated.
I don't know how someone could write a convincing american version of super hans. There's nothing inherently british about a drug-addled failed musician. But there's something about super hans that is so british. I just don't know how someone could write him into an american context. Nor can I think of any non british actors who I think could play the role well. Honestly if I was given the job of writing a us pilot, I'd pick a british actor for super hans, and make him someone who moved to america from england.
I think it’s because Americans can’t do subtlety, especially in comedy. There’s no way they could talk about crack as casually as the original does. Every interaction with Hans would be along the lines of “OH MY GAHD IS THAT C R A C K?!”
When Tony fired the gun in the house, I thought "hey, maybe that's a special guest appearance from Gunny!" Love the effort you went to in order to put this together. Also, I'm very sorry you ended up watching the American Inbetweeners - I couldn't make it through a single episode.
turns out there was a third attempt to americanise peep show in 2016 which was to be created by a tv channel called Starz. I couldn't find any information on it other than it's announcement and that someone called Eli Jorne was going to produce it. Other than that no casting information came out to my knowledge so it looks as though it may have been scrapped pretty early on in development. There was also talk recently about a gender swapped version with Mark and Jez as women which will be the 4th attempt at a U.S peep show remake, the writer for that has been credited on Portlandia, Community, Arrested Development and South Park so could be good but also at the same time could be completely terrible.
I think one of the issues with both american versions of Jeff is they fail to capture the depth of his character. Jeff is interesting as he acts primarily as a foil to Mark, but what's important is (in the early series at least) he's basically just a normal guy, a bit blokey and naturally self confident, but also has his flaws. He's also the polar opposite of Mark, being northern he should be at somewhat of a disadvantage for London corporate life, however he makes up for it through his charisma and general level of psychopathy required for corporate life, whereas mark should be at an advantage having more of a southern cityboy upbringing, but he struggles due to his social awkwardness and lacking that inherent psychopathy, instead being more of a sociopath. By casting the Jeff character as just an average successful guy with no real clear difference from Mark in culture or upbringing, you lose a lot of what makes Jeff's character work. I think casting Jeff as someone with more of a midwestern or southern accent, it would have saved a lot of what made Jeff's character work. I think it really goes to show the depth of the earlier series' writing, however I think it's something that Armstrong and Bain seemed to forget as around the time the pilot would have been written also seems to coincide to when Jeff's character was becoming heavily flanderized into more of a cartoonish bad guy/comic foil for Mark rather than a character who could actually exist in the real world.
Chicago is Midwestern and is filled with small town Midwesterners, who moved to the “Big City”. The closest we could do to accomplish this would be to make Mark from an affluent Chicago suburb and make Jez from the Southside of Chicago but those regional/class distinctions aren’t as pronounced in America. There really wouldn’t be a good way to make an American Peep Show work, without seriously re-tooling the entire set up, which would likely still fail.
Dana Delorenzo was really great in Ash vs Evil Dead- so even though I don’t think she was good fit for Valerie, it’s still such a nice surprise to see her here.
12:55 at least in this mirror scene the camera moves around like it's from his POV unlike the scene of Jez dancing in the mirror in the first episode of actual Peep Show! I remember you pointing that out in another video.
I suspect they intended that the final ‘sitting on the roof’ scene would be repeated in every episode of the show. I agree that it didn’t really work, but it’s just another attempt to Americanise the show
@@ssjduelistDD the end of American telly is basically them copying British humour because that's probably closer to actual reality than anything they see on TV.
i guess sometimes you just gotta accept what's British is British. Same with what's American is American. The social cultures are different. You couldn't have a British "My name is Earl" for example. It just wouldn't be anything alike.
Agree, I can't think of a succesful american or british adaptation other than the office, and that one was completely different from the original, it was good still but the whole feeling and humour wasn't similar at all, there's probably more but i just cant think of any
Well apart from racism - Til Death Us Do Part was a popular old British show about a comical bigot that got translated into very successful American and other national versions. So in Britain the name Alf Garnett became a byword for a bigoted old curmudgeon, while in America the same character is known as Archie Bunker from All In The Family. But most of these modern attempts to remake are done by slapdash hacks who are just copying someone's work, they're naturally going to dumb it down because they themselves are dumb. There was no need for an American Office, I showed UK Office to Americans and they were every bit as fascinated/disgusted/captivated by Gervais's David Brent as the British were. And Gervais is like 'their' British comedian now, they think he's the top UK comedian, haha. He's famous, he did Extras with people like DeNiro in it, alongside old Eastenders actors, lol. So it's strange that there's an American Office at all really, and especially without Gervais, since Gervais himself is a big star in the US. And the original Office was a huge part of that, it's what got him attention and plaudits from Hollywood. I've only watched a few US Office episodes and it seemed like boring American sitcom/soap mulch. Barely even recognisable as The Office, and devoid of that show's innovative use of social horror. I only saw a few to be fair, but they were just totally forgettable to me. Also, the UK never needed a UK translation of Seinfeld of Friends or The Simpsons or South Park. It's only Americans who need translation from English into English, due to their severe cultural self-absorption and arrogant ignorance of Britain, which is the country their country copied, they ripped it off in fact and rebranded it as the USA. They stopped obeying the English laws, but the chains and bindings of the English language were too deep and intricate for them to extricate themselves from. And so they are forever enslaved, by their tongues, to Mother England.
@JoeEyeballGaming that's not how we spell 'wave' in this context I'm afraid, chum. Why not consider purchasing yourself a fine English dictionary? Full of fine English words. Then after much careful study, you will be able to make posts like this online without making any embarrassing mistakes. Embarrassing spelling mistakes, at least.
Maybe Valerie looks older in the US pilot because the age of consent there is 18 rather than 16 in the UK. I find that in the US that even 18 is considered very young to be talking about sex so the fact she looks more like early 20s is probably due to this. It's most likely just a cultural difference rather than an oversight on casting.
She doesn't look early 20s, she looks mid 20s, in dress sense at least. Mark being a sad 30 yo man getting with a college student was absolutely key to the episode, and they absolutely missed it. They could have made her 19, say.
@@k-leb4671 don’t think so, I’d assume Mark and Jez are the same age (roughly) and Jez turns 40 near the end, maybe he was 20s but it couldn’t have been any younger then like 28/29
The sentimentality was probably added to appease the suits. It's an American sitcom, you gotta have schmaltz! I reckon Super Hans would have been a tweaker rather than a stoner, very intense, paranoid and big on conspiracy theories. I'd actually be really interested to see this in its entirety. Well done by the way. You did some serious research here, respect is due!
Will Klinger is a sort of nerdy, Bill Nye-esque guy who hosted a local show where they'd go around to interesting things around Chicago--sort of like an Atlas Obscura thing.
Man great work! I remember reading about this second pilot and just assumed it was lost knowledge, like how the pharaohs built the pyramids. I wonder if someone tied to the production of this has a complete copy somewhere? Hopefully seeing this will urge someone to leak it. Its definitely an improvement over the original pilot, returning to the pov style and the relatively unknown cast make it far more likeable. But the jokes don't really land and there's a seriously lack of chemistry between Jeremy and Mark. Kind of shows just how important an established comedy duo is to the interplay between the two. Great that you found this though, can't wait for us all to cringe together when the next remake comes along.
That 'knock yourself out' exchange between Toni and Jez actually made me nose exhale, it was funny! Subtle and in both character and theme, Jeremy says something he thinks will be cool but actually just sounds like a chronic masterbater. Americans do love their buddy comedy's which is just too at odds at what peep show is, bad people with a toxic co-dependence on eachother. I agree with others Always Sunny is the US peep show.
Not sure they could include Big Suze in a US version because of the cultural difference. In the UK her class background is used against her as a "posh spaso" but in the US they'd probably make her the one grounded character, the eye of the storm.
The fact that it was never made into a series says a lot. British humour doesn't translate and vice versa. If you are going to remake a concept for your country, it needs to be overhauled. Friends works as an American show but it could not have been remade in Britain. Yet Coupling followed the same basic concept and was utterly brilliant.
I'm amazed no one has countered with dah - The Office.... it's virtually one of the few ok translations of Brit humour, but even that went on way too long, there's precious little else though.
Good analysis, especially considering how little footage you have, and how hard it was to get in the first place. I am admittedly intrigued about this version of the show, it is a heck of lot better than the 2005 pilot as you say, so would be interesting to see how it plays out.
American humour just isn't the same, the success of peep show comes from the sarcasm and down trodden nature of British humour. Like peep show is almost always humdrum, that's what makes it so relatable.
Thanks for the research! As an American who loved the original... why is an American version necessary? Was there really that much in the original that was different than American life? I shouldn't complain about bonus Peep Show (and it worked for the Office), but the whole point is the dry internal monologue and I just don't know if most Americans enjoy that.
Nice researching skills! I found only one search result for Funny Little Man Productions which involved Vince Vaughn visiting a set in 08-09, I'm guessing its productions bombed and so the company dissolved.
I would actually like to see this vertion of peep show in full production as this dont look the worlds worst if they change a few things I'd wacth it but the UK one will always be the best
I'm American and Peep Show is my all time favorite British show. These videos are just awesome, never knew about the American pilots and thank goodness they failed😂
and the fact that the drinking age is 21 in america, rather than 16-18 in the UK. she'd have to at least be in college (18) for it to really be accepted in mainstream US TV.
No one can change my mind that Key and Peele should have been tabbed for the American version of Peep Show. They had great chemistry already and might have been able to pull it off.
I thought the Toni character was actually played really well. Aside from that, it's... eh. Fine, but why make a spin-off on when the original is so perfect.
Dana Delorenzo was also a part of Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show and she was awesome. Loved her in Ash vs. Evil Dead, she's good, very good actually. However: You want Peep Show, go watch Peep Show.
Here's the footage: streamable.com/l5xi7t
Quite enjoyed this. Thinking the 'I love you' makes sense in context of UK Jez, sticking to his principles over getting laid, and US Jez, just evaded getting shot. These might have not been prime pilot material for viewers not accustomed to Jez's lack of principles, and the gun thing sticks out as UK writers do US. Still it made me smile.
Would it be worthwhile someone reaching out to the producers, or is this material likely still bound up in ownership issues?
Quality work, Andrew! Just a thought: if this was an aborted project it's possible, in fact likely, the sound mix was never completed. This sounds like partly a rough mix to me.
Can you post a link of Pangea productions (there are loads)
That was quite funny. The Mark is quite bland but Jez and Toni were very good. Miles better than the other pilot of which I couldn’t even get past the first minute.
It's actually not bad. A full series might have turned out really well. I guess we'll never know now
This is the type of video I should be doing. Complicated shit.
2:45 .... Shit he's done something there, ain't he? How'd he do that?
Maybe we could con him into signing a contract, making us owners of the music... he might even such one of us off.
Has he nicked your idea?
Hahaha
This probably the best example of the kind of stuff we do
Good work Andrew you’re definitely ready for Project Zeus
And now is the time for you to know the meaning of project Zeus.
The meaning of project Zeus is why can a British comedy work in America?
@@TheGameCritc I don’t know, for a million reasons, but also…none?
🤣
“how can we make it more American?”
“I don’t know, have someone shoot a gun indoors?”
“Makes sense, let’s do it”
I love how there is a little community of people who are WAY too in to Peep Show, it is wonderful
A little community?!? More like a huge cult following
Yeah we're all weird
No such thing as way too into Peep Show
just so Rainbow Rhythms
That peep show is really moreish
The 2005 pilot was written by people who themselves don't have an internal monologue.
Underrated comment haha
@Frogsquatch Yeah, I was referencing this :D :D :D
@Frogsquatch 😳
I mean managing to scour the internet enough to find 6 minutes of footage from this pilot is damn impressive.
Trying to imagine the American Super Hans or the American Johnson is fun. Super Hans is tough but Johnson would translate very readily to an American character.
Americans like absolutely fucking themselves up with prescription type pills, that's the way I'd go with the character. Johnson would fit in in America, you'd probably have to make the character even more exaggerated.
Terry Crews as Johnson could be amazing.
Crystal meth instead of crack?
American Johnson would try to pull a fake british accent
...or make Johnson an English guy?
I don't know how someone could write a convincing american version of super hans.
There's nothing inherently british about a drug-addled failed musician. But there's something about super hans that is so british. I just don't know how someone could write him into an american context. Nor can I think of any non british actors who I think could play the role well.
Honestly if I was given the job of writing a us pilot, I'd pick a british actor for super hans, and make him someone who moved to america from england.
James Franco might make a decent American Super Hans. The character would be quite different though.
@@greatfelixo it would have to be a different charaxter if it was an american version but you're totally right, i could see him playing that role
How about Rich Hall?
I think it’s because Americans can’t do subtlety, especially in comedy. There’s no way they could talk about crack as casually as the original does. Every interaction with Hans would be along the lines of “OH MY GAHD IS THAT C R A C K?!”
@@capitalb5889 Rich Hall could work as well, pretty good shout.
Funny Little Man Productions is a subsidiary of Tube Up His Nose Studios
Tube up it’s nose tube up it’s nose it’s a studio with a tube up it’s nose
Peow Peow - Eisenhower in A Wheelchair
Tube up his studiNose
@@cannedbread3125 Freak
think its a reference to the aphex twin song
When Tony fired the gun in the house, I thought "hey, maybe that's a special guest appearance from Gunny!" Love the effort you went to in order to put this together. Also, I'm very sorry you ended up watching the American Inbetweeners - I couldn't make it through a single episode.
Gunny isn’t a special guest in America
Its a shame that the whole episode canot be tracked down at this time. It's obviously a lot better than the other US pilot.
Well, to be fair, there is no way it could have been worse
turns out there was a third attempt to americanise peep show in 2016 which was to be created by a tv channel called Starz. I couldn't find any information on it other than it's announcement and that someone called Eli Jorne was going to produce it. Other than that no casting information came out to my knowledge so it looks as though it may have been scrapped pretty early on in development. There was also talk recently about a gender swapped version with Mark and Jez as women which will be the 4th attempt at a U.S peep show remake, the writer for that has been credited on Portlandia, Community, Arrested Development and South Park so could be good but also at the same time could be completely terrible.
But also I'm glad these stayed as just pilots. Peep show is a masterpiece that couldn't be copied again
Peep show fans: the American peep show is so bad its a good thing they only made one episode
Andrew: *no, there is another*
I heard that in a Franz Oz voice.
The Toni chick in this looks like the Aussie girl in the British version
You mean Saz! Actually, I think she looks like a cross between her and April.
I think one of the issues with both american versions of Jeff is they fail to capture the depth of his character. Jeff is interesting as he acts primarily as a foil to Mark, but what's important is (in the early series at least) he's basically just a normal guy, a bit blokey and naturally self confident, but also has his flaws. He's also the polar opposite of Mark, being northern he should be at somewhat of a disadvantage for London corporate life, however he makes up for it through his charisma and general level of psychopathy required for corporate life, whereas mark should be at an advantage having more of a southern cityboy upbringing, but he struggles due to his social awkwardness and lacking that inherent psychopathy, instead being more of a sociopath. By casting the Jeff character as just an average successful guy with no real clear difference from Mark in culture or upbringing, you lose a lot of what makes Jeff's character work. I think casting Jeff as someone with more of a midwestern or southern accent, it would have saved a lot of what made Jeff's character work. I think it really goes to show the depth of the earlier series' writing, however I think it's something that Armstrong and Bain seemed to forget as around the time the pilot would have been written also seems to coincide to when Jeff's character was becoming heavily flanderized into more of a cartoonish bad guy/comic foil for Mark rather than a character who could actually exist in the real world.
Chicago is Midwestern and is filled with small town Midwesterners, who moved to the “Big City”. The closest we could do to accomplish this would be to make Mark from an affluent Chicago suburb and make Jez from the Southside of Chicago but those regional/class distinctions aren’t as pronounced in America. There really wouldn’t be a good way to make an American Peep Show work, without seriously re-tooling the entire set up, which would likely still fail.
Dana Delorenzo was really great in Ash vs Evil Dead- so even though I don’t think she was good fit for Valerie, it’s still such a nice surprise to see her here.
We need that Hans footage! Another great video dude.
I think It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the closest we’ll get to an American Peep Show.
Mark my words this will be the video that blows up your channel
as long as he doesn't Jez it
12:55 at least in this mirror scene the camera moves around like it's from his POV unlike the scene of Jez dancing in the mirror in the first episode of actual Peep Show! I remember you pointing that out in another video.
Great job on this one. So weird seeing Kelly from Ash v Evil dead (Sasha DeLorenzo) playing Valerie the teenage goth!
I suspect they intended that the final ‘sitting on the roof’ scene would be repeated in every episode of the show. I agree that it didn’t really work, but it’s just another attempt to Americanise the show
Gareth marenghi type beat
American sitcoms love their good feel.summsry endings. Wouldn't get away with a sad face wank on a sofa on their networks 😂
@@ssjduelistDD the end of American telly is basically them copying British humour because that's probably closer to actual reality than anything they see on TV.
"undeserved bravado".....perfect description of us americans
Congrats for sitting through the pain fest that was the American inbetweeners.
i guess sometimes you just gotta accept what's British is British.
Same with what's American is American. The social cultures are different.
You couldn't have a British "My name is Earl" for example. It just wouldn't be anything alike.
Agree, I can't think of a succesful american or british adaptation other than the office, and that one was completely different from the original, it was good still but the whole feeling and humour wasn't similar at all, there's probably more but i just cant think of any
@@telephoneradio shameless
Well apart from racism - Til Death Us Do Part was a popular old British show about a comical bigot that got translated into very successful American and other national versions. So in Britain the name Alf Garnett became a byword for a bigoted old curmudgeon, while in America the same character is known as Archie Bunker from All In The Family.
But most of these modern attempts to remake are done by slapdash hacks who are just copying someone's work, they're naturally going to dumb it down because they themselves are dumb. There was no need for an American Office, I showed UK Office to Americans and they were every bit as fascinated/disgusted/captivated by Gervais's David Brent as the British were. And Gervais is like 'their' British comedian now, they think he's the top UK comedian, haha. He's famous, he did Extras with people like DeNiro in it, alongside old Eastenders actors, lol. So it's strange that there's an American Office at all really, and especially without Gervais, since Gervais himself is a big star in the US. And the original Office was a huge part of that, it's what got him attention and plaudits from Hollywood. I've only watched a few US Office episodes and it seemed like boring American sitcom/soap mulch. Barely even recognisable as The Office, and devoid of that show's innovative use of social horror. I only saw a few to be fair, but they were just totally forgettable to me.
Also, the UK never needed a UK translation of Seinfeld of Friends or The Simpsons or South Park. It's only Americans who need translation from English into English, due to their severe cultural self-absorption and arrogant ignorance of Britain, which is the country their country copied, they ripped it off in fact and rebranded it as the USA. They stopped obeying the English laws, but the chains and bindings of the English language were too deep and intricate for them to extricate themselves from. And so they are forever enslaved, by their tongues, to Mother England.
@JoeEyeballGaming that's not how we spell 'wave' in this context I'm afraid, chum. Why not consider purchasing yourself a fine English dictionary? Full of fine English words. Then after much careful study, you will be able to make posts like this online without making any embarrassing mistakes. Embarrassing spelling mistakes, at least.
@@system-error Good troll, or at least I hope so lol
So clever! The way you found this and the research behind it is brilliant! Massive thumbs up man👍👏👏 genius
Maybe Valerie looks older in the US pilot because the age of consent there is 18 rather than 16 in the UK. I find that in the US that even 18 is considered very young to be talking about sex so the fact she looks more like early 20s is probably due to this. It's most likely just a cultural difference rather than an oversight on casting.
She doesn't look early 20s, she looks mid 20s, in dress sense at least. Mark being a sad 30 yo man getting with a college student was absolutely key to the episode, and they absolutely missed it. They could have made her 19, say.
@@dollopsofspraycream I think Mark was still in his 20s in series 1.
@@k-leb4671 don’t think so, I’d assume Mark and Jez are the same age (roughly) and Jez turns 40 near the end, maybe he was 20s but it couldn’t have been any younger then like 28/29
@@user-io8cm4dk1f yeah, he was 28/29 in the first series. I know that's not far off 30 but the point is that he wasn't a 30yo man.
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Great work brother
The American Mark has been in heaps of stuff. I recognised him straight away.
Yeah. Brad Morris is a pretty solid comedy actor.
The Toni in this pilot definitely seems like a pretty good fit. She seems to have all the manourism of the UK one.
Age of consent in the US is 18, unlike 16 in the UK hence probably why US Valerie is older..
Incorrect
Well, in most of the US.
@@subg8858 what do you mean he is correct
@@vanzio3907 that's not true. Age of consent in the UK is 16.
18 in California, which is where most American TV is written and/or financed.
Impressive! As lifelong Peep Show fan, I thought I was pretty clued up, until I discovered your channel. Fantastic work!!!!
Quality investigative work Andy son. Keep up the good work.
Brilliant detective work, Andrew, and yr coverage made me kinda want to see this.
The sentimentality was probably added to appease the suits. It's an American sitcom, you gotta have schmaltz! I reckon Super Hans would have been a tweaker rather than a stoner, very intense, paranoid and big on conspiracy theories.
I'd actually be really interested to see this in its entirety.
Well done by the way. You did some serious research here, respect is due!
Well, the casting was way better...Thanks for the sleuthing.
Will Klinger is a sort of nerdy, Bill Nye-esque guy who hosted a local show where they'd go around to interesting things around Chicago--sort of like an Atlas Obscura thing.
This one doesn’t seem as bad as the other one
Man great work! I remember reading about this second pilot and just assumed it was lost knowledge, like how the pharaohs built the pyramids. I wonder if someone tied to the production of this has a complete copy somewhere? Hopefully seeing this will urge someone to leak it. Its definitely an improvement over the original pilot, returning to the pov style and the relatively unknown cast make it far more likeable. But the jokes don't really land and there's a seriously lack of chemistry between Jeremy and Mark. Kind of shows just how important an established comedy duo is to the interplay between the two. Great that you found this though, can't wait for us all to cringe together when the next remake comes along.
slaves did the pyramids jeremy. thousands and thousands of slaves.
Are you ever going to do a video based on the planned Peep Show film that was considered between the 8th and 9th series?
This one actually seems pretty good, as adaptations go
Peep Show Loremaster
Andrew delivers again
No American version of a UK show has ever worked… I cringed sp bad when I first saw the US office.
That 'knock yourself out' exchange between Toni and Jez actually made me nose exhale, it was funny! Subtle and in both character and theme, Jeremy says something he thinks will be cool but actually just sounds like a chronic masterbater.
Americans do love their buddy comedy's which is just too at odds at what peep show is, bad people with a toxic co-dependence on eachother. I agree with others Always Sunny is the US peep show.
I'm guessing this leaked footage is not the final edit of the produced episode -- that's probably why the audio is a bit weird at times.
I agree, there were probably budget issues, and sharpening up the audio wasn't near the top of the 'to do' list.
Ah man, it would be great if the whole pilot surfaced.
Not sure they could include Big Suze in a US version because of the cultural difference. In the UK her class background is used against her as a "posh spaso" but in the US they'd probably make her the one grounded character, the eye of the storm.
Great little channel this, real gem
Funny Little Man productions has to be a nod to Aphex Twin
The actor who plays this scuffed Mark looks like the original Super Hans in disguise as the original Mark.
This is amazing, thank you for making this!
Fair bloody play, Andrew. Really appreciate the work that went into this video!
The fact that it was never made into a series says a lot. British humour doesn't translate and vice versa. If you are going to remake a concept for your country, it needs to be overhauled. Friends works as an American show but it could not have been remade in Britain. Yet Coupling followed the same basic concept and was utterly brilliant.
I'm amazed no one has countered with
dah - The Office....
it's virtually one of the few ok translations of Brit humour,
but even that went on way too long, there's precious little else though.
@MrNorthernSol
Touche
some very good points there lad.
Good analysis, especially considering how little footage you have, and how hard it was to get in the first place. I am admittedly intrigued about this version of the show, it is a heck of lot better than the 2005 pilot as you say, so would be interesting to see how it plays out.
Thanks you for this- can see a lot of detective work went into thus
Two pilots, Jeremy? Two!? That’s insane.
Wow thank you very much for all your work.... amazing
American humour just isn't the same, the success of peep show comes from the sarcasm and down trodden nature of British humour. Like peep show is almost always humdrum, that's what makes it so relatable.
There is some stuff, like Curb, which is a bit misanthropic and downbeat but there the exception
Amazing work put into this,
subscribed - well deserved.
Sterling work Andrew, Sterling work
it's not absolutely dreadful. great job, America!
Thanks for the research! As an American who loved the original... why is an American version necessary? Was there really that much in the original that was different than American life? I shouldn't complain about bonus Peep Show (and it worked for the Office), but the whole point is the dry internal monologue and I just don't know if most Americans enjoy that.
"why is an american version necessary?"
Money.
Nice researching skills! I found only one search result for Funny Little Man Productions which involved Vince Vaughn visiting a set in 08-09, I'm guessing its productions bombed and so the company dissolved.
Hats off on the work finding all this stuff as well.
I would actually like to see this vertion of peep show in full production as this dont look the worlds worst if they change a few things I'd wacth it but the UK one will always be the best
Holy shit, well done on this!
Happy to be the first to comment in 2 years. Displays the eternal appeal of Peep Show. That's all.
Man, I just discovered your channel and I love it, great work!
For some reason I can imagine a young Rich Hall would make a good Jeremy
Nah, Rich would be Super Hans
I watched the footage and I'm a huge Peep Show fan.. it actually wasn't bad!
Much respect for this
I'm American and Peep Show is my all time favorite British show. These videos are just awesome, never knew about the American pilots and thank goodness they failed😂
Great job mate.
"watchable yet wouldn't go out of your way to watch it"
- a guy who spent a long time and a lot of research piecing together snippets from the pilot
I'd definitely watch this, not the other pilot you showed tho. The fisrst person pov ftw
Two pilots Andrew, Two! That's insane
you amazing god digging this up
Thats a lot of work that you put in. Well done sir.
Nice find. It's neither outrageous nor contagious. Cheers...mate
Dana DeLorenzo was in Ash VS Evil Dead
0:56 lmaoo whyd u have to do gerrard so dirty here
They had to bump up Valerie's age a little bit because of the age of consent difference. But, yeah, she looks much older.
and the fact that the drinking age is 21 in america, rather than 16-18 in the UK. she'd have to at least be in college (18) for it to really be accepted in mainstream US TV.
The U.S. really can't keep it's fingers off my favorite British properties and that said: I'm German and was nearly called Hans. ;)
Just give it up America our comedy is unique to us.
Like the American office vs uk one
No one can change my mind that Key and Peele should have been tabbed for the American version of Peep Show. They had great chemistry already and might have been able to pull it off.
That could have been great.
Perhaps they're the only guys that had a chance.
Like the previous pilot, I think this may have been made to make sure an American version would never get made.
Very good video. Surprised to see you only have 3k subs. Keep going!
Brad Morris played a role in The Good Place season 4, which isn't a huge role but enough for me to have recognised him !!
This Mark looks like a cross between Sam Harris and Boyle from Brooklyn 99.
I think an American Peep Show could work, but they have to really care about it and put in the work. Wilfred survived and even surpassed the original.
"How do we make it American?" "Same story, just add a gun."
Welp, time to watch the real peep show all the way through again for the billionth time.
Hello, you are a nice youtuber, I am now a nice subscriber. Good job on the incredible footage finding!
three shows, three, thats insane!?
Nice work Sherlock!
I thought the Toni character was actually played really well. Aside from that, it's... eh. Fine, but why make a spin-off on when the original is so perfect.
Dana Delorenzo was also a part of Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show and she was awesome. Loved her in Ash vs. Evil Dead, she's good, very good actually. However: You want Peep Show, go watch Peep Show.