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"Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper has claimed that a US version of the comedy is still in the works. NBC was developing a remake of the Channel 4 sitcom - starring Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub - but the project was not picked up for the network&amp;#039;s 2012-13 schedule.  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re meant to be doing a pilot for America sometime and I&amp;#039;ll believe that when it occurs,&amp;quot; Popper said at a screening for the UK version&amp;#039;s second series at this year&amp;#039;s Edinburgh International Television Festival. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s all I can say, because when things happen in America, it&amp;#039;s always sort of pretend.&amp;quot; Popper explained that any US remake of his series would have to keep &amp;quot;the principles of what [the original series] is&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Hopefully it&amp;#039;ll be good - the hard thing is you want to keep the comedic voice, so it&amp;#039;s not so different that it doesn&amp;#039;t feel like the show,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not quite sure how they&amp;#039;re going to do it and I can&amp;#039;t say much - not allowed.&amp;quot; Friday Night Dinner returns to Channel 4 in late autumn. &amp;gt; Inbetweeners Simon Bird unsure of movie sequel: &amp;#039;No concrete plans&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Edinburgh TV Festival Live Blog: Jay Hunt on future of Channel 4 Watch a clip from the first series of Friday Night Dinner below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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