Only Fools & Horses

[lizann]

I just read this will be remade for the US, I cant how that will work

[Perdita]

Sir David Jason has suggested that the American remake of Only Fools and Horses won't work.

The 71-year-old actor, famous for playing Del Boy in the classic BBC sitcom, believes that the original London setting is intrinsic to its success.

"They can do brilliant comedy [in America] but I don't see that they can bring off Fools and Horses," he told BBC News.

"I don't see that it will travel across the pond. It might work but you've got to change it so much that, in the change, in order to Americanise it, do you lose the whole concept of the piece?"

Jason went on: "The language will have to change so much and there will be so many parts of the storyline you have to change.

"It's so London and so British, [in] its humour, that you wonder. It's London based and it took quite a long time for the rest of the country to catch up with the phrases.

"I have no idea what the American equivalent of 'plonker' is, for example. Or 'dipstick'."

Scrubs writers Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley are said to be adapting the show for US network ABC.

Asked who he would like to take his role, the star tipped Johnny Depp, adding: "You would never get him because he's too big but I'd go for Johnny Depp because he's such a good actor."

News of the US spinoff comes nearly a year after John Sullivan's death at the age of 64. The Fools and Horses creator and writer had been suffering from viral pneumonia.

[tammyy2j]

I still laugh at the repeats of this show excellent one of best comedies ever

[Perdita]

Christopher Lloyd has joined the cast of the Only Fools and Horses US remake.

The Back to the Future star will play the grandfather of Del (John Leguizamo) and Rodney (Dustin Ybarra), according to Deadline.

Like the original UK comedy, the potential ABC series will follow the trio as they concoct get-rick-quick schemes in their attempts to become millionaires.

Happy Endings actor BJ Bales has also been cast as Trigger, who has been reinvented as a 'ghetto-talking con man' and Del and Rodney's 'perpetual enemy'.

In the BBC's Only Fools and Horses - which ran from 1981 to 2003 - the dim-witted Trigger was played by Roger Lloyd-Pack, while Del and Rodney's granddad was portrayed by Lennard Pearce, until the actor's death in 1984.

David Jason, who played Del in the original, recently suggested that the remake will struggle, arguing that the show's concept won't "travel across the pond".

Happy Endings writers Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley have adapted Only Fools and Horses for US television and will executive produce alongside Jeff Golenberg.

[Perdita]

Wendi McLendon-Covey has been cast in ABC's Only Fools and Horses remake.

The Bridesmaids star will play Ruby, the ex-wife of John Leguizamo's Del. The equivalent role of Raquel in the UK original was played by Tessa Peake-Jones.

After she was released from HBO pilot Viagra Diaries, McLendon-Covey attracted five offers, and ultimately decided to join the cast of Only Fools and Horses, reports Deadline.

The comedy pilot is about two streetwise brothers Del (Leguizamo) and Rodney (Dustin Ybarra), along with their grandfather (Christopher Lloyd), as they devise schemes to make money in the hope of becoming millionaires.

McLendon-Covey starred in last year's summer hit Bridesmaids as the cousin of Maya Rudolph's Lillian.

Her television credits include Reno 911!, Cougar Town and I Hate My Teenage Daughter.