Kath & Kim may be home in Fountain Lakes before they know it.
An influential US media industry group is predicting NBC's plan to make an American version of the hit Australian sitcom will be a dud with US audiences.
Each year, New York-based firm Horizon Media analyses the new shows for the all-important American autumn TV season and predict what series will be hits and what will be misses and quickly axed.
NBC's Kath & Kim was circled as one of the expected weak performers.
The bad press comes as the US TV network begins to promote the series ahead of its October 9 debut.
NBC has invested heavily in the show.
It cast Molly Shannon, one of America's most loved comediennes after a six-year stint on sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, as Kath and big screen actress, Selma Blair, who stars in the new action film Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, as Kim.
NBC also juggled its schedule around to give Kath & Kim the best chance of success.
The show will air as the final piece of NBC's Thursday night comedy block.
It will follow established NBC sitcoms, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock and The Office, an American adaptation based on Ricky Gervais' British comedy that survived initial scepticism and lukewarm ratings to be one of NBC's success stories.
The new series Horizon Media has the most hope for are two sci-fi dramas by two of TV's most prolific hitmakers, JJ Abrams and Jerry Bruckheimer.
Abrams, the creator of Lost, has cooked up Fringe, a series about a female FBI agent forced to work with a scientist in order to understand a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena.
Bruckheimer is producing Eleventh Hour, a show centred on a US government scientist attempting to save people from deadly scientific experiments.
Australian actor Simon Baker also appears to have a hit on his hands, according to Horizon Media.
The Tasmanian-born actor's new series, The Mentalist, also fared well on the media group's survey.