So what can we expect from the next season of new US dramas and comedies, on air from this autumn? Well it looks like a load of Americanised versions of British shows. And lots of Brits on both sides of the camera in other new US stuff. And the return of The Bionic Woman.
Yesterday it was announced that Kirstie Alley will take the Dawn French role in Fox's remake of Tiger Aspect's BBC1 sitcom The Vicar of Dibley.
And this is just one of a number of remakes of UK shows seeking a series order via the high stakes roulette game that is the US networks' pilot annual pilot season.
American versions of Kudos' Life on Mars, Shed's Footballers' Wives, the BBC's Blackpool and Company Picture's Wild at Heart are all due to be piloted this spring.
On the sitcom front, the BBC's I'm with Stupid and Talkback Thames' The IT Crowd are in for pilots with NBC.
If commissioned, they will premiere on the US networks this autumn in the new 2007-2008 American TV season, and if bought by UK broadcasters, turn up on British television from early next year.
Will the British broadcasters want to buy Americanised versions of their own shows? Who knows - The Office: an American Workplace is doing OKish on ITV2.
Even if they turn down these shows, it will be hard to avoid British talent in the new crop of US shows heading our way this autumn.
Jonny Lee Miller takes the lead in ABC's Eli Stone, playing an attorney having unusual visions; in NBC's Life, Damian Lewis is an ex-cop who rejoins the police after being wrongly imprisoned.
Then there's Lena Headey taking over the Linda Hamilton role in Fox's Terminator spin-off, The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Behind the camera, Brit feature film directors Guy Ritchie, Ridley and Tony Scott, Stephen Frears and Danny Cannon are all attached to network TV pilots.
More generally, it looks like in the 2007-2008 season US network TV will be moving away from the heavily serialised dramas, including Lost, that have dominated for the past couple of years, following the failure of shows such as The Nine, Six Degrees, Kidnapped and Vanished last autumn.
This autumn US TV will be all about "soaps and high concept procedurals", according to The Hollywood Reporter.
And The Bionic Woman is back for NBC, with a creative team featuring David Eick, who has previous on "re-imaginings" of cheesy 70s TV series - he's an executive producer of the Battlestar Galactica revival.
Eick is also attached to Fox's Them, an adaptation of a graphic novel about an alien sleeper infiltrating the human race.
But do British viewers want to see Americans playing British roles?
