It could also never be made today because no one but the most deluded of white lib FB moms would have any appetite for a show about how your exploitative labor aristocrat boss is actually one of you and you should love him. If that’s not the most American show premise of all time tell me what is. The British are addicted to their own exploitation too, but they’re also critically depressed cynics, so the UK version at least had the decency to have the Gervais character be a universally reviled loser that everyone is relieved to see get fired.