The other remake I came across is the Dutch Mary Tyler Moore Show, adapted in the ’90s as a vehicle for a popular TV actress, the late Sylvia Millecam. The first couple of scenes in this clip, at least, are identifiable as being from the pilot (Dutch Phyllis tells Dutch Rhoda about why Sylvia left her old town; Sylvia meets Dutch Ted). The audience response here appears to consist of just the crew members laughing, which is a surprisingly durable technique for shows that can’t or won’t use an audience – The Soup does that, for example.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/12/01/dept-of-foreign-remakes/

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