It has been confirmed that the iconic British comedy series ‘Only Fools and Horses’ is set for a US remake. However the original Del Boy, Sir David Jason remains unconvinced the series can be successfully translated into an American format.
ABC has commissioned a pilot for the potential series. Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley, whose previous work includes hospital sitcom ‘Scrubs’, will collaborate on the script.
Created by John Sullivan, ‘Only Fools and Horses’ was set on a council estate in Peckham, South London. The show chronicled the escapades of market dealer, Del Boy (David Jason) and his younger brother Rodney (Lennard Pearce) as they ‘wheeled and dealed’ in the hope of becoming millionaires.
Running from 1981 to 1991, the series remained consistently popular with British audiences and was voted Britain’s Best Sitcom in a 2004 BBC poll.
However David Jason has voiced his concerns for an American remake; “They can do brilliant comedy [in America] but I don’t see that they can bring off only fools and horses…It might work but you’ve got to change it so much that, in the change, in order to Americanize it, do you lose the whole concept of the piece?”
“It’s so London and its so British…I have no idea what the American equivalent of ‘plonker’ is.”
Steve Carell is currently rumored for the part of Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter, although no cast members have yet been confirmed.
Watch a clip from ‘Only Fools and Horses’ below:
http://youtu.be/_IBgk05iL3Y
