Colm Meaney (who our Meaney is named after, incidentally) is currently in talks to play detective Gene Hunt in the American remake of Life on Mars, the superb Cop Show with a Twist that the BBC aired this year and last year. The British version was a two-season self-contained deal, but I imagine the American version will try to milk it for all it's worth.

Colm Meaney is, I'm sure you'll agree, one of the finest actors to come from Ireland, and if he's involved in the American Life on Mars that might actually be enough for me to tune in.