[viridian]

Based on wikipedia original viewership numbers, the office UK saw about 63 million views during its original run, and the US show saw about 1,463 million, so it definitely was the more popular show by orders of magnitude.

It also seems to be on-again-off-again the most streamed TV show in a given year, competing with the likes of Friends, Suits, and Grey's anatomy. I can't find UK stream numbers to compare, but it doesn't seem like it's ever made one of the top 10/25/etc lists that netflix or neilson publishes.

[averageRoyalty]

I don't disagree with any of that. However the convention with remakes and adaptions [of which The Office (US) is both] is the append the region or country in the non-original. As such when someone says "The Office", I - and I presume many others - think of the original.

I think the American version is great in its own right (post the dreadful first season remake), but's The Office (US).