Outrageous Fortune is being remade into a British Drama titled "Honest". This is too weird, instead of Van and Jethro it will be Vin and Taylor.
Honest will screen on iTV and star Amanda Redman. The first season (6 parts) is due to screen 2008.
If you want more information try:
IMDB or
Wikipedia
And John Barnet talks about this deal on the podcast 'The Arts on Sunday with Lynn Freeman' 12 August. You can easily download this on iTunes.
Lucas73
I think they already have a show like it called Shameless playing on UKTV although I haven't watched it so if it's nothing like it I apologise.
Finally Free
I think it's awesome that there's going to be a British remake. If they only showed the kiwi version, they'd have a hard time getting all the cultural aspects of the show. Outrageous Fortune is very kiwi.
nanisnap
Yeah it would be awesome if TVNZ screened it lol. But it's pretty flattering that they liked the idea so much they recreated it.
TuiKiwi
It would be classic if TVNZ picked this up LOL
But I have to say, It's very sad that they decided to make their own series instead of screening the original - ours.