My Family could be heading to US networks

US television executives are said to be planning to make a version of the BBC's sitcom My Family.

The New York-based company that developed the show's format is now in talks with US networks.

My Family, which stars Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wanamaker as the parents of three teenagers, was written in a completely different way from previous British sitcoms.

Under the American writer Fred Barron, who worked on Seinfeld and the Larry Sanders Show, scripts were written by a team, rather than just one or two people, allowing the series to be extended to 28 episodes in its latest run.

Mr Barron was recruited by DLT Entertainment, a New York company with a history of taking British formats to the US. The Media Guardian, quoting the Hollywood Reporter says DLT is now working on a deal with Mr Barron for an American adaptation of the series.

"It's probably the only UK-produced show that has been produced with a US style and a US sensibility, both in the way it was produced and the way it was written," said DLT's vice president, Don Taffner Jnr. "So I think it will very easily translate to the US market."

DLT - which has already sold My Family to more than 20 countries, including Australia, Canada, and Ireland - is in talks with two US cable networks for the rights to the original series.

Another 28-episode series of My Family - which was first aired on the BBC in 2000 - is due later in the year.