'Peep Show' might get a U.S. remake and people are freaking out
LONDON -- They tried twice and they failed, but this time it really looks that our American cousins will be making a U.S. version of the beloved Peep Show.
Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, creators of the nine-season Channel 4 comedy, will be consulting producers at Starz cable network on the project, Variety reported.
But the responsibility to adapt the British cult show, which stars Robert Webb and David Mitchell, to an American audience will lay exclusively on executive producer Eli Jorne.
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Earlier attempts by Fox TV and Spike TV failed in 2004 and 2008, respectively.
"We are hugely relieved to hand over the responsibility of coming up with the dark and twisted thoughts of two terrible men to the extremely funny, dark and twisted Eli Jorne," Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong said jointly in a statement.
Needless to say, British fans of the show had some strong thoughts on Twitter:
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