I didn't actually know that Kath & Kim was a remake. I saw a touch of it last night and was left utterly cold, and I like Selma Blair, but I was like "WTF *is* this?" It mystified me that Selma was being played as if she's dumpy and plain or something, first of all. Secondly I didn't get that it was meant to be edgy or offensive. It ended with them saying something about "here's to global warming" and I was like "hm. topical." (you have to imagine that dripping with sarcasm) It left me cold, whereas now that you mention this I know fully well that two actresses who know how to pull it off could have made that really horribly funny. ;D

Then again aren't American remakes almost unfailingly off the mark? Have you seen clips out of the US version of "Red Dwarf"? Oh GOD! "The Office" is just about the only one to take a really snarky foreign-made show and have it work, even with a slight shift in emphasis. (And I'm actually quite sick of the US Office by now anyway. Went on too damn long.)

Oh, give me "Arrested Development" any day for some American-made cringey humour. And the hotness of Portia DeRossi. AND the hotness of Will Arnett, now that I'm thinking about it! That show was about so much more than hotness... but I won't *complain* about the high levels of hot that it contained. *G*