Aha
I was one of the folk here in dear old Blighty who enjoyed it. I felt that the charicters were all totally unlikable which peversely IMO was the shows strength.
Instead of a bunch of top rated boffins we have the small underfunded ragtag buch who strangley were the best but were such total screw ups they were placed away in the bunker in wales where Torchwood1 could hapliy forget about them.
Then of course our best and brightest were eliminated by the New Cybermen in Doctor Who. So who ya gonna call? A mysterious soldier possibly american who will shag anything with a pulse, a pug nosed little plonker with a penchant for using alien pheremones to get laid, a rather cute welsh police officer, a mysterious butler type who gets the tea and hides a dark secret in the cellar, a quiet computer specalist who is in love with afore mentionerd pug nose plonker. Add a dash of undead ex co worker faries who most definatley do not wear boots (sorry Black Sabbath fans) weird goings on in the hills and the secret in the cellar and over all we had a delughtful first season IMO. Please remmber this is not Doctor Who, this is not a kiddies show. A very Brittish Sci-FIi series which showed us at both our worst and best!