Some foreign formats need translation before they hit American TV screens

May 26, 2008 [...] in reality, the challenges of adapting a foreign format go well beyond the proverbial potato-potahto cultural clash and down to the differences in the way series are produced and scheduled in other countries. Both went through at least three reincarnations before landing in key slots -- as a lead-out of "Two and a Half Men" and a lead-in of "Grey's Anatomy," respectively -- and stray significantly from the original series' genre and format. The British "Worst Week" ran two seven-episode seasons, chronicling the seven days leading to a young couple's wedding and birth of their baby.

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