I’ll go first…The Office.
Now I know the two shows are fundamentally quite different, but they adapted what was already a very successful show, and turned It into an event more successfully one that lasted for significantly longer than the original did. I say that’s a win for them.
Anything else? Life on Mars, Being Human, The Inbetweeners…?
Life on Mars. Although I really enjoyed the British original as well.
But no one can come close to the Great British Baking Show.
The American version didn’t have DCI Gene Hunt, which automatically makes it inferior