American I caught in bad French show (7)
I believe the answer is:
musical
'show' is the definition.
(musical is a kind of show)
'american i caught in bad french' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'us'.
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'bad french' becomes 'mal' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'us'+'i'+'c'='usic'
'usic' placed into 'mal' is 'MUSICAL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for musical that I've seen before include "Eg, Cats or Evita" , "Type of stage show" , "Annie maybe" , "Show, with numbers" , "Tommy, for one" .)