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Little Britain USA Review

You spend quite a lot of the time analysing what Matt Lucas and David Walliams have changed in their bid to crack America - and why. (Happily, the urinating old woman seems to have gone, along with the vomiting one.) You spend much of the rest wondering what on earth its target audience will make of it.

Little Britain USA Review

Has Little Britain become too much of a monster? Whether it has or not, it's impossible to deny that Matt Lucas and David Walliams have pulled off a sensational achievement. The first episode of Little Britain USA featured content that was every bit as good as the home-grown version and for that alone Lucas and Williams should be congratulated, applauded and showered with medals.

Matt Lucas and David Walliams attempted to storm the US with this bizarre transatlantic hybrid of their comedy series. It didn't exactly meet with critical acclaim in America, but British viewers will still find their favourite characters, as well as a few new American ones too, such as Bing Gordyn, the eighth astronaut on the moon.

Fans of Little Britain's savage brand of panto humour are in for an extended treat. Matt Lucas and David Walliams have made a six-part series in the US. Vicky Pollard is off to boot camp; Daffyd Thomas goes to university, Sebastian Love becomes prime minister and Lou and Andy are in search of a miracle cure, US-style. In television terms, this is an event of seismic proportions. It is produced by Simon Fuller, the creator of American Idol and the studio sketches will be directed by David Schwimmer from Friends. For millions of viewers, that's Friday night sorted out for the foreseeable future.

An American series of Little Britain could have been its undoing, but it's given some old favourites a freshness they badly needed.

And while it would have been easy for Matt Lucas and David Walliams to use their new series for network HBO just to ridicule Americans, it turns out it's still the Brits who are the butt of the jokes.

FOR five years Little Britain has kept us entertained. Now the comedy duo responsible for the show, David Walliams and Matt Lucas, are taking their unique sense of humour Stateside.

However, when aired in the US the spin-off version of the successful British series was mauled by one critic, who said itwas mostly just crude, revelling in mock condescension towards American stereotypes.

Despite some people not latching on to Lucas and Walliams' creation, there are still plenty who are delighted at the return of Little Britain and characters including Majorie Dawes of Fat Fighters, plus some new faces.