A good remake of a British TV series?

NBC is airing an American version of the British comedy The Office, a faux documentary about a seriously dysfunctional workplace. So far, TV critics are saying the NBC version is actually good! But this sentence from a BBC article really grabbed my attention:

In the 1970s, US remakes of well-loved British series Till Death Do Us Part, Steptoe and Son, and Man About the House all became huge hits with American audiences.

But what were the remakes? I found out, thanks to Google (and the BBC): All in the Family, Sanford and Son, and Three’s Company. No kidding.

Theme park based on TV series

Lately my family has been watching a South Korean TV drama series called Dae Jang Geum, aka Jewel of the Palace. The main character is based on a real person, Seo Jang-Geum, who is the only female doctor for the king in Korea’s history. But so little is known about her real life that the producers made up most of the plot.

When it first aired, more than half of South Korea watched it, and now it’s sweeping across Asia like wildfire. Tourists from all over Asia are going to South Korea just to see Dae Jang Geum-related stuff. Now there’s a theme park based on Dae Jang Geum, which is the restored set where the series was taped. It’s somewhat like the lots at Universal Studios, but this park is based around one TV series. I can’t think of anything quite like it in the U.S.