There was an attempt to bring the British Sci-Fi Sitcom Red Dwarf to the United States. Certainly, that should have been easy to adapt. It could have been big. Unfortunately, there was a lot of interference from the network, and the cast is relatively lifeless.

One change they made was that they not only kept Robert Llewellyn as Kryten, but they introduced him in the pilot as an official member of Red Dwarf. Sadly, this negates his hilarious background as the caretaker for three hot women who’ve survived an accident, but when the Dwarfers arrive they find three skeletons that Kryten has been maintaining for eons. However, his altered history makes for the one truly hilarious moment in the US pilot. (It’s at the very end of this clip.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud-dPqgmRR0