People Just Do Nothing – the BBC mockumentary about a spoof pirate radio station based in Brentford – is getting a US remake set in Las Vegas after Amazon ordered a pilot of the cult comedy.
Grindah, Steves, DJ Decoy, Chabuddy and the rest of the Kurupt FM garage gang are to be reimagined as DJing hopefuls trying to ply their trade on the EDM-obsessed Vegas strip, according to Variety.
People Just Do Nothing, which won a Bafta in 2017, will air its final season in late 2018. Its creators Hugo Chegwin, Steve Stamp, Asim Chaudhry and Allan Mustafa will serve as executive producers on the US remake.
The action will take place in North Las Vegas, which Variety calls “a land of mini malls and vast parking lots” that will serve as a US equivalent to Kurupt FM’s original manor: Brentford.
People Just Do Nothing is the latest British comedy to get the US remake treatment. Earlier this year, Lena Dunham’s remake of Julia Davis’s pitch-black comedy Camping was released with mixed reviews.
The Atlantic chided it for not being as dark as its UK forebear. “British comedy is both lighter and darker, more cynical but less serious, rooted in awfulness and unfettered by the obligation to make characters likable in any way,” wrote Sophie Gilbert. “Which about sums up what’s wrong with Camping.”
People Just Do Nothing started life on YouTube before being picked up by BBC3 in 2014. It has become one of British comedy’s biggest successes of the past five years, making the transition from online curio to an award-winning multi-series show.
