By The world can be broadly split into people who are like Mark Corrigan, people who are like Jez Usbourne, and people who realise that they're both selfish monsters. Now, though, as Sam Bain revealed a piece for The Guardian, there's a new pair of selfish monsters in the works as a gender-swapped American remake of Peep Show is taking shape.
"People sometimes ask if I look at my earlier work differently now – whether my shows would have been better if they had been more diverse," Bain wrote. "What would Peep Show have been like with women as the two leads? It’s a great question – and it’s one I’ll shortly have the answer to, because there is a script in development for a US Peep Show with two female leads."
Bain's not writing this one though - it's being put together for FX Networks by Portlandia and Community writer Karey Dornetto. As Bain added in the Guardian piece, "Ultimately, the best way of building gender inclusivity into scripts is to get women to write them. I can’t wait to find out what sick and twisted bullshit goes on inside the minds of a pair of female losers."
That's a fairly solid indication that this transplant of British sitcom into America is more likely to be a new The Office than a new The Inbetweeners, which somehow turned into a fiasco despite having Taika Waititi as a director for part of its run. Hopefully they won't completely Jez it.
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