And now, here’s a side-by-side comparison of The IT Crowd with the failed 2007 US version
In 2007, NBC was all ready to go with an American version of The IT Crowd, which would have also starred Richard Ayoade, because holy shit, you just could not replace him, and Joel McHale, who later went on to star in Community. It’s not a huge sin that the pilot was essentially a shot-for-shot remake of the British pilot– the entire first season of The Office did the same before it took its own direction, but this is just unsettling.
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