British spy drama MI-5 (or as it’s known over there, Spooks) is headed for a U.S. adaptation by ABC, because we need more spy dramas and we really enjoy taking beloved U.K. shows and making them over with American actors, as this truly incenses British people and British people sound hilarious when they’re angry. For those who have missed the show’s various runs on PBS, A&E, or BBC America, or who have yet to check out the DVDs, MI-5 follows a group of security and intelligence officers operating out of London’s Thames House. It’s still being decided whether the show will continue to focus on British agents, which raises the question of why we’d even bother remaking it, or will transpose the setting to something more comfortingly American like the CIA. Of course, then it would just be a show along the lines of The Agency or Covert Affairs or 24, which again raises the question of why we’d even bother remaking it. Oh, right: Pissing off the British. Tally-ho, then.
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