Coupling

We just watched Coupling for the first time last night. My husband and I thought it was really funny! Kind of like a much better version of Friends mixed with Seinfeld.

Is it still being made or is the series finished?

I love it! I don't think it's still being made. I got really addicted to watching it when I've been over in the UK. My ex had all but the last season on DVD, and they where playing the last season while I was there. I own the second season on DVD but that's it.

I love it too! They don't make it anymore and they don't have many episodes of it in all, I can't remember how many, but it's only about the equivalent of one US season. I wish there were more, I have seen all the episodes many times!

Oh, that's a shame that there aren't that many. It is hilarious!

We can download it from Netflix onto the computer - looks like I'll be up late tonight watching episodes! 

Every once in a while they show it on bbc america.

I get the impression that this is one of those programmes that failed miserably in the UK, so they gave it to BBC America.   I'd never even heard of it until it was mentioned on UKY.  It seems the only people who've watched it are people in America!

You could be right! It's sometimes repeated here on Paramount comedy. My husband loves it but it does nothing for me. It was meant to be like a British Friends I think.

It was meant to be like a British Friends I think.

Hmmm.
I didnt like the American Friends, so i probably wouldn't like this.

I dunno. I was never a huge Friends fan, but I really liked Coupling.

Make way for the Coupling expert....

Coupling ran for four six-episode series over here and was the creation of Steven Moffatt, who has regularly written for the new Doctor Who and all sorts of other things. It's based loosely on his relationship with his wife, daughter of super-producer Beryl Vertue (watch the credits of any Brit comedy and you see her name a lot).

NBC bought the US rights to the series and scripts. They produced a version of the show with the original script, but highly edited for time and content. It flopped. It was one of the network's biggest failures, being pulled after only 4 episodes went to air.

Meanwhile, back in the UK, Moffatt and Vertue were having troubles with changing commissioning editors. They'd half intended to do a 5th series, but didn't get to.

Instead, Moffatt posted a short essay/short story type thing on a Doctor Who forum that explained how the show was meant to end. (Everyone lives happily ever after, basically.)

Hmmm.
I didnt like the American Friends, so i probably wouldn't like this.

I really don't like Friends.

One thing that I like about Coupling is that there's a 'he said' 'she said' perspective, unlike so many other shows that I've seen. It gives a different slant to it, making it more than just 'trying-to-be-funny' one-liners.

Every once in a while they show it on bbc america.

Actually, it's on BBCAmerica every weekday at 5:30, right after My Family (which I love too)!

Actually, it's on BBCAmerica every weekday at 5:30, right after My Family (which I love too)!

Really?  I only have BBC when I'm at home with my ultra-conservative family. My mom thinks friends is evil, so I can't imagine what she and my sister would say about Coupling! I never get to watch it when it's on.

I dunno. I was never a huge Friends fan, but I really liked Coupling.

Same here.

I loved Friends, but thought Coupling was an unfunny imitation.