'Everybody Loves Raymond' Remake: BBC Orders 'The Smiths' Starring Catherine Tate, Lee Mack

'Everybody Loves Raymond' Is Getting A UK Remake
LOS ANGELES - JANUARY 29: The cast of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' at the taping of the final episode of the Emmy award-winning CBS comedy series on Saturday, January 29,2005. Pictured from left to right are Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, Brad Garrett (with his two children) Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten (partially behind Garrett) Madylin Sweeten and Monica Horan. (Photo by Richard Cartwright/CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES - JANUARY 29: The cast of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' at the taping of the final episode of the Emmy award-winning CBS comedy series on Saturday, January 29,2005. Pictured from left to right are Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, Brad Garrett (with his two children) Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten (partially behind Garrett) Madylin Sweeten and Monica Horan. (Photo by Richard Cartwright/CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images)

"The Smiths" will be set in Cheshire, England and it follows the "Everybody Loves Raymond" story by having a Lee Mack play a sportswriter who lives across the street from his overbearing parents and brother. The pilot was written by Mack. Catherine Tate will play his wife.

American viewers will recognize Tate from her turn on "The Office" and as Donna Noble on "Doctor Who."

"The Smiths" will film in front of a studio audience on May 28.

This isn't the first time "Everybody Loves Raymond" has gotten an overseas remake. Series creator Phil Rosenthal made "Exporting Raymond," a documentary about his experiences making "Voroniny," the Russian version of "Everybody Loves Raymond."

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