I can proudly say that I have not watched one episode of Love Island.

Strictly Come Dancing was actually a spin-off of an older show (1970s, I think) called Come Dancing. It was like Dancing With The Stars without the celebrities.

Shameless was absolutely brilliant, the USA one was a tame, watered down version

The Thick of it was brilliant. Writer Armando Iannucci had to haggle with the BBC over the swearing. He says he was told he was allowed to use the C word three times in an episode - but only if the F word was cut to 10 times a minute. He was effectively given a quota of how many ‘f***s’ he was allowed to use per minute.

The guy saying “I love a good Scottish accent” during the Coupling clip 😂. The character is Welsh! Friends started in 1992 in the UK.

Strictly Come Dancing began on the BBC in 2004 and many countries across the world have their own version and call it 'Dancing with the Stars". The reason for the 'strange' name in the UK is because there was a ballroom dancing television programme back in the 1960's/70's featuring competition between professionals called Come Dancing and the name for the new celebrity dancing competition was taken from that old series. The word 'strictly' was used as a nod to an Australian film called "Strictly Ballroom". It was about dancing competitions and was an unexpected success at the cinema.

"I love a good Scottish accent" 😂🤣😂

There was very little similarity between Friends and Coupling. Coupling was far grittier than Friends, and despite having 3 men and 3 women as main characters that's about the limit of similarity. Interestingly, the US tried to remake Coupling, but took out all the crudity and sexual references, e.g. all the things that made it watchable. Needless to say it bombed.

The quality question is a bit tricky, older programs which are pre-digital were made using the PAL format system so if they are not converted properly you get quality loss. It’s interesting that before enhancements you got many peculiarities in film for example converting to small screen from film caused the film to blue shift in the reduction process so traffic lights became blue lol, not all the time depending on budget

Fun fact: The song Cotton Eye Joe is made by a swedish band. I would assume that most people think they're super american 😁

Haven't seen the US House of Cards, but if that's indicative of how Spacey played the Urquhart character it's missing a whole dimension.

06:59 Veep of course created and written by a British writer, Armando Iannucci the same writer and creator of The Thick of It and it started 7 years before Veep.

Americans like American TV shows, while British prefer British TV shows. That’s why they have different versions. In Australia, we tend to get more British comedies than US comedies, because the British sense of humour is one Aussies fully get.

'Come dancing' was a show featuring serious ballroom dancing that ran for years and was much loved by older generations but interest waned and it was cancelled I think as fashions changed . In the late nineties an Australian film ' Strictly ballroom ' was a success and revived interest , the idea to make Strictly as a celeb dancing competition proved ideal family entertainment and several Countries have their own version .

Coupling was not the the British version of Friends it was way more adult and gritty.

The uk version of shameless was phenomenal

I believe the original reality TV show to go global was Big Brother. That started in the Netherlands.

The strictly title is a mash up of Strictly Ballroom & Come Dancing. An Australian film from the 90's & a UK tv show that first aired in 1950.

The Equaliser was British TV from the mid 1980s, and can be tracked back to the 60s with a TV show called "Callan" about a reluctant British spy/assassin. It was even played by the same person in both shoes, Edward Woodward... Some think it's a tenuous link, but it pads The Equalisers back story perfectly.

Coupling was not a remake of friends. It was a sitcom with 3 men and 3 women so everyone compared it to friends, but none of the characters were based on the the characters from friends, and in fact there was actually an american remake of coupling using the origional scripts. That 70s show was definitly more succesfull than Days Like These which was cancelled in the first series. Though they used the origional scripts localised to the UK, half the actors they used have never been in anything else so it's safe to say the US did it better. I've not even heard of VEEP, but i'm betting it was very different since one of the actors from In the Thick of It holds a record for the most times anyone said F#@< on British TV! The Apprentice was longer running in the UK than it was in the US and more successful in terms of % of the population that watched it. As for the quality: before HD british TV was actually recorded at higher resolution than US TV, but youtube does not support that resolution so any clips will be down scaled.

Just one point you said the us been doing tv shows longer but the TV is a British Invention so we did it first lol 😂

House of Cards was a trilogy, the first season House of Cards, second To Play the King (all royalty based, then finally The Final cut. Each one a season...

Strictly Come Dancing is an old programme brought back to tv in 2004, a brother and sister from my hometown of Grimsby Kevin and Joanne Clifton have both won it, their parents have run a dance school for over 40 years. Kevin has married his dance partner tv presenter Stacey Dooley and has a child, he was on Who Do you Think You Are? In the recent series.

You're comparing the quality of recordings, not necessarily the broadcasts. Though back in the day we had different broadcast standards NTSC in America (525lines @ 60hz), Pal in UK (625 lines @ 50hz)

RE: The Thick of It - there were so many memes when Peter Capaldi was revealed to have been cast as the 12 Doctor. Fake Doctor Who interspersed with clips of Malcolm Tucker swearing. Great stuff.

I love how they judge never having seen both versions.

I'm British. I've never watch any of the Love Island or similar 'reality' shows. Coupling was brilliant and literally nothing like Friends, so I don't know why they are compared (and the guy in the clip is Welsh, not Scottish). I've never heard of Veep. The difference between the UK and US Apprentice shows is the US version has a guy who was given millions by a rich father and it's debatable if he really ,ade anything of it himself, whereas the UK version has Sir Alan Sugar, a self made millionaire, who worked his way up from working class and was knighted in recognition of his personal achievements.

One thing that I’ve noticed about American TV shows and films, is that most people a young, slim, extremely good looking and glamorous and usually rich! Why are there not ordinary average people depicted that people can relate to?

I love coupling, and friends. They aren't the same show.

Shameless was really popular in the UK, though is very, very different to the US version, probably because most of what happens in the UK version wouldn't be allowed on US television lol. I know that the full show is on UK Netflix, not sure if it's also on US Netflix but it might be!

Different TV systems. UK TV used a much higher resolution quality before digital than the US TV. Unless the UK programme is properly converted to the US system it will appear blurry and washed out. Re the American Shameless getting weird in later episodes, it suffered from what a lot of American shows suffer from... the show runners don't know when to stop milking the cow.

The UK Apprentice is a lot better than the US Apprentice. The US one dropped off quite heavily before it was cancelled in 2017 but the UK one has kept at a consistent popularity since the 4th series onwards, and is actually currently airing its 18th series of the show.

We British have a warped sense of humour, sharp and witty, deep too... so we do British comedy which sometimes does not suit US sense of comedy and vice versa...some US comedy I love some I will change channels on.. just because I'm a Brit and love our sense of this is as good as it gets attitude to life.. great reaction thanks.. I won't say which I thought were better in this though.. I did watch to the end too, so I'm sure not biased .. love from UK as always

Common theme with US remakes: they're always tamer, more watered down versions. Can't think of an exception.

"I love a good Scottish accent"

Its fair to say come dancing comes from the old ballroom competitions my grand parents used to compete. And the thick of it and similar are sort of taken from the comedy Yes Minister

Abomination is correct for Love Island.

There's a compilation KZfaq video of the most effective British tv ads. They're like psa's but a lot darker and impactful. Not for the faint of heart but they work incredibly well to get their message across.

I am 69 and watched my first TV in London in 1960 and VEEP along with Cyrb Your Enthusiasm are the greatest USA Series in my lifetime imo. VEEP did around 8 or 9 Series and the creator Armando Iannucci had already created The Thick Of It and was behind Alan Partridge, as well.Comedic genius.

Come Dancing was a British ballroom dancing competition show made by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) which aired on BBC One at various intervals from 1950 to 1998. Unlike its subsequent follow-up show, Strictly Come Dancing, contestants were neither celebrities nor professionals. Wikipedia.

Coupling was not a British version of Friends lol. They were aimed at different demographics Friends was a pg prim time family show with clean comedy. Coupling was a 15 after watershed 9pm show with gritty comedy and adult themes. The shows are not really comparable. And there was a USA version of coupling but it was not very good as they cut out a lot of the adult jokes.

American stuff gets way more money spent on it. I remember a British comedy writer saying you can earn more for a pilot that doesn't get picked up in America than you can for a successful series in the UK. But they also definitely go for that glitzier, saturated image too. Compare the look of the UK Office to the US one. The UK one deliberately has desaturated, harsh lighting because it's supposed to be a documentary. The US one is lit like a normal sitcom. Same with Parks and Rec, Modern Family and all of these other supposed mockumentaries. I remember one of the writers of Spinal Tap mentioning how important it was that it was supposed to be a documentary, and questioning why the documentary crew are still following the Modern Family family around.

To answer the quality issue regards the UK ones you saw, they were bad captures not put out by the production companies but by everyday folk ripped from their home recordings. also Coupling was inspired by friends and then was copied by a US studio.

That review you watched was ridiculous

An ideal location for love island would be Krakatoa, Indonesian, from 20 May until 21 October 1883, peaking in the late morning hours of 27 August when over 70% of the island of Krakatoa and its surrounding archipelago were destroyed as it collapsed into a caldera.

We tend to prize naturalism in terms of look, that’s why the mockumentary style ones look cheaper - there is also the history of PAL vs NTSC

Ethan 😂😂...What is a fanny flutter? 😂😂.

A reaction video to a reaction video? My mind is blown.

Great stuff 👍👍👍👍

I always find often with American shows, for some unknown reason, the sound always goes up and down. It’s weird

I hate to tell you this (WELL NOT REALLY HAHA) But the head judge Len Goodman used to Judge Strictly Come Dancing on a Saturday night in the UK and then fly to the states to do the EXACT same role on Dancing with the stars as did co judge Bruno Toniloi (we lost Len Goodman last year to cancer)

I'd tweak the thumbnail to just "What's Love Island UK?"

Loving your KC shirt. I watched the parade live online. So sorry to see how it ended. My heart hurts for the people of Kansas City.💔

Surely the people reacting to the TV shows should have at least seen them both?!

Hmmm I’ve never watched it but was that even the British version of love island? because it had the Australian “nine” tv logo, although it may have been aired in Australia too

American tv system is NTSC Europe/ UK is PAL.

Coupling ABSOLUTELY shouldn't be compared to Friends. They're nothing alike. Also the US remade Coupling and it was just awful with a US cast. Well they remade the first series, without any script changes so I'm not sure why

I forgot to say. America did their version of Would I Lie To You (WILTY). It was terrible and only lasted for two series. That was because the American People who watch it found out certain truths about the show. The Audience were trained when to Clap and Laugh and second, a lot of the True Stories were lies.

Strictly Come Dancing title was derived from a 70s amateur contestant show called ‘Come Dancing’ and a famous Australian movie called ‘Strictly Ballroom’.

Friends came out in 94 Coupling in 2000 - Men Behaving Badly in 92. Not claiming it, it's hardly a unique concept. That 70's.... wonder if the rights were sold independently? Is their a book or play???

See if you can find the tv shows that the USA tried to copy from the UK like Dr who and the red dwarf 😂

Veep is British, all the creators, writers etc are British. The creator is the same as the Thick of It - Armando Iannucci

The UK version of Shameless was better, much more grittier and also the first big role for actor James McAvoy

80s and 90s TV shows looked bad as it was filmed for the hertz TVs we use here and when converted over to the hertz for the American TVs you loose some quality and was the same when American shows were shown in the UK it lost a lot of quality in the picture.

They can't show any actual good scene from The Thick Of It because it's 90% the craziest insult and/or swearing on TV.

Why did they change the name of The Great British Bake Off to The Great British Baking Show in America

coupling isnt really friends but the first two series are funny. richard coyle's character is funny. the poor quality camera... well lets talk about your crappy tv resolution back in the old crt era... jk strictly come dancing is called that because there used to be a ballroom show called come dancing... there was a movie called strictly ballroom... there was a charity event and so they invented strictly come dancing as a sort of joke. it was very popular so they kept doing it. All money raised by voting goes to children in need - and for that reason we definitely did it better.

Hello Ethan and Angela. Let's go Britain! In the late 1970s, I heard a conspiracy theory that there had been times in that difficult decade that a coup was plotted, with Airey Neave and Lord Mountbatten said to be the intended heads of the proposed regime. Soon after, both had been blown up, with Irish Republicans officially held responsible. It seemed someone writing the British "House of Cards" had heard the same rumours, as there was a death in the plot blamed on Irish terrorists, but actually something within the murky British political world of the fiction. I was reminded of this by recently watching the film "71". I will not explain why as spoilers, but I enjoyed both "House of Cards" UK when it was on BBC TV and "71" on C4. Note, I am not suggesting I believe in conspiracy theories, just saying what I heard.

We normally don't copy American shows, we just take the American shows. American's copy the British shows in the belief that Americans won't get a lot of the British humour or that the British shows lack relevance. It's not really surprising that Americans prefer the American shows, otherwise a remake would have been pointless. As to crediting the British original, nobody covers it up, but you wouldn't expect it to be over emphasised either

American version v UK version of: The IT Crowd 👎👎👎👎👎 The Inbetweeners 👎👎👎👎👎 They were truly awful.

Asking US Americans if a UK or US show is better, when they haven't seen both shows is not going to get a fair vote. Have they done the same thing with British people answering the questions? I suspect that the US shows would not do so well, as they did here.

It's all subjective of course but Shameless was ruined for the US, truly awful and I'm a huge William H Macy fan. UK original was set in too specific a UK situation to be able to be translated into an American space.

That's wrong strictly come dancing was on British TV in the 80s it came back on 2004

Ihave never heard of coupling!

American version of Shameless was absolutely garbage compared to the British version. The British version of Shameless was filmed in my home city of Manchester.

American shows have bigger audiences and thus bigger budgets

TBH i just dont think that they are showing the best reproductions of the UK shows we have HD and UHD as well.

The Office UK version is absolute 'Pants'. As I feel so badly about the UK version, it goes without saying that I would feel that the US version is even worse. The central type of "humour" in it is waaaaay above the US person's head.

The Thick of It either ripped off Spin City, or The West Wing (badly), having worse actors, stories, and writing. Both American shows debuted in the late 90s.

Proud to say never watched love Island. Insane drivel. Strictly come dancing is the original. BBC sold the rights around the world. The name in uk is a play on an old uk show called come dancing. And uk version is less showy and focuses more on the technique of the dance

Hearing Americans say that USA shameless was better is sickening

Here’s a question for you two! The movie, “The Magnificent Seven” was an original story from the US. True or false?

You had high definition long before us. Your TV was 480 ours was 576 so our TV was better than yours until you went high definition...

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Days Like These was very bad. but on the plus side no one from the show has ever joined a cult or become a serial sex offender, so there's that. Oh Christ, House of Cards.... same.

How can it be a fair representation if all the react reactors are american and so will just say the US version is better...if they never knew the uk version exsited or even seen an ep of one of these shows....

Days like these was a US export to the UK with some terrible English accents. They really did just hire the worst people they could find.

British shameless was far far better the British actor who plays frank nails it

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I agree love island is total crap and total waste of money to make it. I've only seen previews of it and that was enough for me to say hell no I'm not watching that crap. The friends and coupling, I'd say Americans won that one, loved friends never missed an episode, joey was always my fave character. With spacey accusations isn't proof. Innocent until proven guilty, but I agree he's a brilliant actor. For me the British apprentice is better, nothing to do with Trump as I don't hate him, I think the British version is more relatable in a way than the American version. For me the American shameless was better, didn't really like the British version even though I'm a Brit.

That was a really REALLY lame clip of The Thick of It! Please do yourselves a favour and watch some good clips of that, as it's about a bajjilion times better than it looked and better than Veep. Also, both were predated by Yes Minister from the 70s(!) which is a real flat out classic.

Behave yourselves Tommy Cooper Morecombe and Wise Tommy Trinder Norman Wistom Danny La Rue Jimmy Tarbuck Ken Dodd Freddy Starr Roy Chubby Brown Look British humour up always

I hate the ’USA’ chant.

I can proudly say that I have not watched one episode of Friend, would never want to watch it and never will.

The clip was from Strictly Come Dancing was NOT "cosplaying as Americans" or mocking Americans. They were dancing to Cotton Eye Joe.... a country/pop song by an American band.

All these reality tv show are complete Bollocks!! wouldn't waste my time on any off them. British Tv is full of terrible Game shows & cookery programs nowadays. it's not worth watching anymore.

Coupling was awful, but the cast was amazing.