U.K. TV shows winning over North American audiences
July 22, 2014 - 2:39 AM
When The Office’s David Brent made the jump across the pond, Ricky Gervais’s much-loved character from Slough was transformed for its North American audience into a small-time Pennsylvanian office supplies manager, played by Steve Carell. The Westminster drama The Thick of It, meanwhile, was teleported to Washington, D.C.