Anticipation For US ‘Kath & Kim’ Reaches All-Time Low
As the “this is going to suck” juggernaut continues to roll in ahead of the premiere of NBC’s remake of Kath & Kim, it’s looking less and less like our Stateside friends are in any way confident that the show – starring Selma Blair as “Kim” and Molly Shannon as “Kath” – will be all NBC is no doubt hoping it’s cracked up to be. And given that here at Defamer Australia we are more or less certain it will blow, we continue to bring you even the most questionable K&K related hate mail news: here’s today’s!
US TV network NBC has rolled out a massive ad campaign and billboard blitz for the show but it appears Americans don’t really care about the foxy morons.
In the latest blow to the sitcom ahead of its October 9 debut in the US, a survey of potential American viewers has given the show – starring Selma Blair and Molly Shannon – a big thumbs down.
Here’s the latest mini-promos that NBC has been airing, hoping to hook in viewers:
It looks… well, what do you think? Did you laugh? Did you LOL? Or did you starting Googling things like “stink bomb”+mail+”US consulate”+”NBC headquarters”?
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Just wait until the NBC version of the Bob Morrison Show…
i actually quite liked what i saw… surprisingly. Don’t thing the septics will get it though.
It ‘may’ be ok in its own right, but the fact its an American version of fantastic Australian show it just misses the whole point and premise.
You wont be able to help but constantly compare the two versions.
Maybe if NBC didnt call it Kath & Kim and didnt promote it as such?
As an australian who loved the show I’d just like to say that these previews made me cringe. I don’t think our humour (or the type of humour that was part of the show) is going to translate at all. I love Selma Blair and it is painful for me to see her acting this role.
NBC has missed the whole point of what made the original so funny. Two forty plus women dressing up as mother and daughter. That was the joke.
Selma Blair is totally wrong for this. This show will tank.
Who is playing Sharon?
Too bad most Americans will never know how funny the original was.