ABC to remake Spooks in the USA!

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If spooks is to be "Americanized" then it will need to have American actors and be based in the US, otherwise why do it? An American remake of a "British" spooks just doesn't make sense since the original never really caught on here and, maybe more importantly, the unions would never allow it. If set in the US, then we're really talking about an FBI-like organization (which is the service responsible for internal security) but where would the primary location be -- New York, Washington, Baltimore (even though berto hates it there), Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Milwaukee, Dallas/Ft. Worth? The US is a BIG place. One of the most recognizable motifs of spooks is the use of London as both a geographical backdrop and a character -- that would necessarily be lost in a US remake.