Seconded. Although I do understand the reluctance, and I'd be the last person to do the "try it, you'll like it" approach. All I can say is that I don't hate it, myself (although I only watched it until the point that Jeff got replaced, and haven't gone to the trouble of tracking down the later seasons because what's the point without him.)

And agreed about the US atrocity. (It appears that Moffat has cloned the series in Greece last year. I am vaguely curious how that went.)