Gavin and Stacey set for US remake Are Americans ready for Gavin from New Jersey and Stacey with a Deep South twang? The hit BBC sitcom that made James Corden's career, is hoping to follow his success with a trans-Atlantic remake but will it be "lush" or leave audiences angrily demanding: "Oy, what's occurring?" Corden was the toast of Broadway this year after picking up a Tony Award for his performance in One Man, Two Guvnors, which had transferred from London. He is now acting as executive producer, alongside co-creator Ruth Jones, of the US translation of Gavin & Stacey. The sitcom, about the whirlwind romance between a boy from Essex and a girl from Barry in Wales, become a huge hit with fans including Tom Jones to David Cameron who admitted to using the "What's occurring?" catchphrase. News emerged this week that Fox had secured a deal to develop a US version of the show, which would be executive produced by Jones and Corden, the third attempt to do so. Details about the US version of Gavin & Stacey are sketchy so far. It is unclear whether the names will be changed or where the characters will come from in the US. American network NBC, which took on The Office, was the first to buy the rights in 2008. At the time the idea was to make Gavin from New Jersey and Stacey from South Carolina. The idea fell apart, and a year later it was picked up by rival ABC, but that also collapsed. The latest attempt will be scripted by David Rosen, who adapted his novel I Just Want My Pants Back into a TV show in the US. The show will be produced by Sony Pictures and BBC Worldwide, with the show's UK producers Baby Cow Productions. The translation of British sitcoms into American has rarely been smooth. While The Office with Steve Carell met with critical and audience acclaim, there has been a graveyard of shows that failed that failed in translation including remakes of Only Fools and Horses, Men Behaving Badly, and One Foot in the Grave. Recently teen gross-out sitcom The Inbetweeners was remade, with the backing of creators Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, to limited critical success. Just as a few of the grosser-moments were toned down in that show, a few in-jokes in Gavin & Stacey may not make the translation, including the family surname references to serial killers. Corden met Jones on the ITV drama Fat Friends, about members of a slimming group, where he told her about a wedding where the bride was Welsh and the groom was English. The comic actor based his role of Smithy on a friend of his cousin, while others are based on people they both met during the filming of Fat Friends. The show first aired in May 2007 on BBC Three and its popularity after three series and a Christmas special saw it end up on BBC One. Earlier this month Joanna Page, who played Stacey, scotched rumours that another UK series was in the offing.