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Big Talk Studios Developing UK Remake Of ‘Cheers’ As It Diversifies In Perilous Scripted Market

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EXCLUSIVE: It was the place where American viewers were always glad they came — and now the Cheers bar is hoping to open its doors to Brits.

Deadline can reveal that Big Talk Studios, the producer behind Stephen Merchant’s BBC/Amazon series The Outlaws, is pitching a UK version of NBC’s iconic comedy.

Thirty years after Cheers’ last orders, Big Talk has enlisted Simon Nye, the British writer known for Men Behaving Badly and The Durrells, to adapt the series for a UK audience.

Nye will be showrunner if Cheers is greenlit. Cheers ran for 11 seasons and 275 episodes on NBC, depicting life in a titular Boston bar run by Sam Malone (Ted Danson).

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