[TwiztidK]

The IT Crowd is a successful show in the UK but the pilot for the US version was garbage, ruining almost every joke from the original. Even though having a successful predecessor helps a show somewhat, there is still a lot of room for error.

[officemonkey]

Except "House of Cards" was a political soaper (west wing) with a charismatic anti-hero (the shield, etc.)

"The IT crowd" as a goofy farce had no American counterpart and was pretty much doomed to failure. Better translation examples would be the American "The Office" (based on other office-based comedies) and the American "Coupling" (a "Friends" clone.) "Coupling" failed because the first American episode was nearly a shot-for-shot remake. You might have been able to get away with that in the 90s, but not in the Netflix/Bittorrent era.

[bcrescimanno]

Actually, the bigger reason (as I understand it) that Coupling failed in the US had more to do with American network TV not being at all comfortable with the content of Coupling. The humor was generally "neutered" for American TV and the resulting product was so watered down it was doomed to fail.

Not to mention that the casting was atrocious.