Having ranted and raved in the past about American remakes, it feels only fair for me to share my latest (rather late, in fact) "discovery", that the British do it, too...

First time I noticed was in fact quite a few years ago, when Peter Cattaneo (Full Monty) did "Lucky Break", a remake of the Swedish movie "Breaking Out" (a story reminiscent of the "Porridge" of Ronnie Barker's fame, to keep on topic )

But that, at least, was a (shudder) foreign movie, much dreaded by Anglo-Saxons all over the world, I still can't see the point of having "Law and Order UK", which I just noticed, or last year's "Honest", with Amanda Redman (New Tricks), the remake of the Newzealander sitcom "Outrageous Fortune", remade in Britain, rather than just shown "as is"...

But maybe it's just because I'm a bloody furriner meself, and although I favour British for personal use, in the end all accents are good enough for me... when I understand them, at least, and I must admit that if I have a problem there it happens more often with Americans than Kiwis, but neither can beat a goodly drunken Scotsman to make me feel like English is an opinion, rather than a language...

Well, to be entirely honest the British versions "Lucky Break" and "Honest" were actually quite GOOD, even though I've read complaints about the latter being a tamed-down version of "Outrageous Fortune", rather than just a geographically modified one from tropical New Zealand to soaked wet Britain...

Truth to tell, both cases are among the very few, in my own experience, where I couldn't make a choice between original and remake if hard-pressed to it... I like them BOTH, which, in the end, probably makes them twice as good