Since the Revolutionary War, Americans have been getting revenge on the British by appropriating their culture. A Brit made the first television broadcast in 1925, but since we’d like to think we can claim the medium as our own, it’s only natural that we do everything we can to steal their successful telly programming. Sometimes it works, sometimes it gets lost in translation, but we never stop trying. As we look forward to (or, more accurately, dread) MTV’s remake of the fantastic UK series Skins, which premieres in January, here’s a look at the best and worst American versions of UK TV shows.
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Did you know that Bill Cosby was working on a hip-hop album? While The Cosnarati: State of Emergency is not due out in stores until November 24, you can currently stream the entire thing — which features cameos by Eric Clapton, Alicia Keys, and LL Cool J — on his website now.
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Today at Flavorpill, we considered skinny dipping. We cheered for Internet Explorer’s death. We took very bad advice from Brad Pitt and took good look at Scarlet Johansson as the black widow. We could have sworn we saw a transformer outside the office window. We laughed at a band who thinks Pharrell stole their generic beat. We were oddly amused that organic arctic goo exists. And finally, we rekindled our love for Bill Cosby.
