The Killing II

Is anyone else looking forward to the second series of Forbrydelsen (The Killing II) as much as I am? Check out the trailer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y4z22
I'm two thirds into series 1 and utterly hooked. Sweater jokes aside, I love detective Lund. She's such a strong, fearless, intelligent character, and it's so refreshing to see a show featuring a leading female character who isn't sexualised for a change. Over a 20-episode series, the show features a 20-day investigation into a single (yep, just the one!) murder case, and chooses to focus in great detail on the effect the crime in question has over everyone left behind (the victim's family and friends, the detectives, and the suspects). Most importantly perhaps, the crime is very much linked to small town politics, and appears to be (being 2/3 in) something other than a mere, stereotypical, crime of passion. My question here is: why is such a cult hit show been buried into a BBC4 channel slot here in the UK? Does it being Danish have something to do with it, or is it really just an acquired drama-taste of a show, it being unconventional in some ways?

They say the Anglo-American crime genre is dying a slow and painful death.
If so, long live the Nordic Noir!

My only other (possibly also naive you'll think) question is: why do the Americans feel the need to automatically, knee-jerk remake something that has just been done (see US version of The Killing, and also American remakes of Larsson's Millennium trilogy), and done so well? Is the US audience that averse to foreign language film watching? Sure, when watching The Killing, you can't just turn your back to the TV and make a cup of tea (which you easily can do when watching, say, Dexter), but that's a good thing right? The subtitled language demands the viewer's full attention. Are we as audiences that passive and needy?