Law and Order: UK

[shakatany]

I've just finished watching the third episode of "Law & Order: UK" and, like the other two, it's a reworking of an original "Law & Order" episode (in order they are "Cradle to Grave", "Born Bad" and "Working Mom"). Is the original Law & Order" not shown in the UK or is it that, as the show is 19 years old, they hope the reworking wouldn't be recognized? And perhaps they didn't think that we in the states would see it. They do change things a bit as the finale of the "Born Bad" ep was ever so much better than our version (the prosecutor held out some hope to the boy whereas in the American version there was none). Perhaps it was easier to sell using the American episodes but as the first series (as they say over there) is just 13 episodes I'm keeping my fingers crossed that eventually we'll see some original stuff