There's no talk of any other movies, but die-hard fans have high hopes for a promise by an American network to adapt the show for cable stateside. Again.

It should be noted that promise is getting a bit stale. TNT announced last summer that it was working on a new version of the classic British mystery series, but so far nothing more has been said.

Perhaps someone sent the suits at TNT a DVD copy of the 1997 "Cracker" series. A few of the aforementioned die-hard fans surely remember the underwhelming 1997 effort by ABC to remake "Cracker" for North American audiences.

That series starred former "Murphy Brown" star Robert Pastorelli as surly sleuth Fitz Fitzgerald and a then-unknown Josh Hartnett (who went on to teen-film stardom in the early 2000s) in his first screen role.

It only ran for one season and reportedly struggled to even do that.

It, of course, had a lot to live up to.

The original British series starred Robbie Coltrane (best known to North American audiences as Hagrid from the Harry Potter films) as Fitz, a hard-living criminal psychologist. It only ran for three seasons on Britain's ITV network, but built up a huge fanbase in that time.

Two telefilms were made after the show's demise, "Cracker: White Ghost" in 1996 and "Cracker: Nine Eleven" (in the U.S. it simply aired as "Cracker").

The 1997 U.S. series was often criticized for the fact that it just seemed like a British show with American accents -- that the producers didn't do enough to translate the British storylines into an American setting.

However, the TNT remake has disappeared off everyone's radar, it seems. The few people who had reportedly signed on to work on the series have since taken on other projects, including the central figure, screenwriter/producer Jason Horwitch, whose AMC pilot "Rubicon" was recently picked up as a series.

The British "Cracker" series was produced by Granada Television, and the TNT version would be a co-production with Granada's American wing. Granada suit Julie Meldal-Johnson had high hopes for the series when she said in an interview that, "We thought the timing was right and that American cable, edgier and more open, would be a better venue for it than broadcast."