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Absolutely. The Office needed to be resituated for it to engage fully.
Being Human doesn't; it's no more about being British, than True Blood is about being American. Likewise No Heroics: it'll lose something if it's resituated. True Blood is absolutely quintessentially Southern in it's cultural references, but it doesn't require one to be a Southerner in order to get it. That's part of its charm in fact.
It's a bit like taking a story that's originally a period piece set in the 19th century and rewriting it as a 21st Century tale on the grounds that 21st century people can't relate to horse-drawn carriages.
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