If at first you fail, then try, try again. Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner is to be given a US remake by CBS - two years after a remake by NBC was not picked up by the network.

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The comedy, which stars Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal as sons who must suffer through dinner with their eccentric parents every Friday night, has been commissioned as a pilot. Creator Robert Popper will be writing the script as part of a two-script deal with Warner Bros TV.

According to a report from Deadline, the intention of CBS is to keep the single-camera nature of the series, "infused with comedy and heart in the vein of ABC’s Modern Family," though the pilot is still in early stages and a multi-camera format has not been totally ruled out.

In 2012, NBC remade the show with The Office developer Greg Daniels writing and executive producing a pilot starring Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub. It didn't get picked up as a series, however.

Around that time, Popper said that any US remake would have to keep "the principles of what [the original series] is".

"Hopefully it'll be good - the hard thing is you want to keep the comedic voice, so it's not so different that it doesn't feel like the show," he said.

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Friday Night Dinner premiered its third series on Channel 4 in June.

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