6. Coupling
Perhaps a perfect example of how a remake shouldn’t be handled, the US version of Coupling was rightly torn apart by critics, with one particularly harsh comment saying that it gave “sex, comedy, and television a bad name”. Ouch.
Even the president of the network it aired on (for all of four episodes before being cancelled) would later say that, “It just sucked.” Something was just lost in translation with this one, as even following the exact same storylines as the original did the series no favours.
The outrageous and clever humour was gone, leaving the jokes to fall flat with much of the blame laid at the feet of the mediocre cast.
