Calling all Brit TV lovers!

From the BBC America website:

Exciting news from BBC AMERICA's press department hit the wires this morning: the entire channel is undergoing a "radical makeover" later this year. The channel will now "focus exclusively on bringing U.S. audiences the very best in contemporary British programs

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Lots of great acquisitions to announce, including MI-5 (Spooks to you UKers), the long-running youth soap Hollyoaks (which I love), Hotel Babylon, the new Jennifer Saunders comedy The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle, Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood, and new seasons of Hex, Life On Mars, and Doctor Who. Here are some of the primetime highlights you can look forward to:

Hollyoaks has very hot women (not that I would watch a show for that reason). Jennifer Saunders is very, very funny as anyone who has seen Absolutely Fabulous can attest. Hex has hot women along with demons and black magic (not that I would watch a show for either of those reasons). Life on Mars is very well done. Dr. Who is the longest running sci-fi show in TV history, and deserves to be, and Torchwood takes the idea of "adult" science fiction to levels that the new Battlestar Galactica can only dream about (it also has hot gay love action, not that there's anything wrong with that).

It looks like the good stuff is going to be clustered on Saturday night which is good news because Saturday is in need of good TV programming. BBC America has a history of livening up Saturday night. You will remember last Summer when they showed the entire series of "Sharpe" movies staring Sean Bean.

Here are the details about their Saturday night lineup:

Supernatural Saturday enters a world of science fiction and paranormal events where nothing is what it seems. In a BBC AMERICA co-production, James Nesbitt (Murphy's Law, Bloody Sunday) stars as Jekyll in a modern re-telling of the classic tale of scientific misadventure. And from the creators of Doctor Who, spin-off series Torchwood, follows a team of modern day investigators as they use sci-fi technology to solve crimes in both alien and human worlds. Returning series include all-new seasons of time-travelling Life on Mars, spine-chilling Hex and sci-fi favorite Doctor Who.

Even though the Sci-Fi Channel shows the new Dr. Who episodes before BBC Ameirca gets them it is still worth watching on BBC because the Sci-Fi version is shortened to allow more commercials. The BBC America version shows the entire episode the way it was shown in the UK.