I loved the summer run of it on BBCA. I have also come to love british scifi a little more then american scifi. In my own way I think it's smarter. I'm afraid syfy will "americanize" so it looses it's point. But then again syfy is getting better this year so I hope I'll be surprised.

I agree with those who despise US remakes. I can understand doing it back when we couldn't get the originals broadcast here, but now it's absurd. I will probably watch the syfy version only out of curiosity, and my expectations are pretty low.

I LOVE the British version... and I'm not sure I'd watch an American remake.

Enough with copying. This show is great. We never seem to get it. From Fawlty Towers, Coupling, Eleventh Hour, etc, we ruin good Brit shows. Why not just enjoy the original? Sorry, I will stick to that one.

Cool, the UK show is really fun without trying to hard to be quirky about it...and it did get better as the season went on the pedo episode was pretty funny

On the one hand, yay. On the other hand, American TV has become increasingly afraid of developing original TV in the past 5 years and that concerns me. When I visited Britain two years ago I was tired of seeing re-runs of American shows (SATC, Law & Order, etc.), but now it's happening in reverse. Thanks to the increasingly global community I can see the original British versions if I want through BBC America, DVDs, on-line, etc., so I'm hoping TV producers get tired of copying material from 10-20 years ago & other countries and return to what they used to do - original programming -

"It's a bit like a supernatural Melrose Place."

I don't think this is a good description at all.

One day, America will be original and stop copying our programs. Life on Mars (English version) was amazing. The American one failed because they just copied it. I hope this does the same.
In any other place, this would be called plagiarism.

"The BBC series was okay but not great."

Really? I quickly fell in love with it and its characters when it aired this summer on BBC America. I'm of two minds about this acquisition. I love it since it will open up the great stories and the cool concept to a wider audience, but I'm more than fearful that the American version will pale in comparison or worse, butcher it all together.

Having said that, I'll keep an open mind. Getting the cast right will be key since they need to have chemistry from the get go. They should also focus on getting the perfect writer (Whedon? Fuller?).

Well, the British version is only shooting it's second season, and the 1st season was only 6 or 7 episodes long and got better as it went along. It's improving and I'm looking forward to the 2nd season.