Why must we 'adapt' things? Can't we just watch the original show?
It's probably cheaper to pay the adaptation fees to make your own (which gives you repeat fees, DVD sales, overseas sales, no rights hassles, the ability to use actors you already have on contract / want to keep on contract etc.) than pay for the showing rights that give you a limited window.
I suspect it will be very hard to recapture the brilliance of the original. There's going to be the temptation to write long seasons with story arcs and character development instead of keeping the sharp focus on farce.
Totally agree, I really hope they do not try to make it something that it never was with detailed story arcs. The original was great.