Why are they arresting that laydee? Our first glimpse of HBO's Little Britain

I was rather late to get on the Little Britian love train. It took a few tries for me to learn to laugh at the likes of Vicky Pollard and Andy Pipkin (eventually Carol Beers won me over) but once I did I became a full-on Little Britain fan... and one quite eager to see the HBO version, which looks like it'll feature many of the popilar Little Britian characters making people miserable in the United States.

And now, UK paper The Mail on Sunday has the first pictures from the new series. It looks like we'll be seeing the style-challenged cross-dresser Emily Howard (played hilariously by David Walliams) facing arrest for shoplifting:

And who's that officer manhandling Emily?

It's the gay half of the Little Britain duo, Matt Lucas! (Ouch, did The Mail make a fat joke there? They shouldn't try comedy.)

In addition to Emily Howard, we can expect to see Dafydd Thomas -- who'll go to great lengths to maintain his ability to whine about being "the only gay in the village", Sebastian Love -- the flamboyant assistant who blatantly chased after a Prime Minister played by Anthony Stewart Head and will probably be flirting madly with the President and, of course, Vicky Pollard causing trouble in the states. There's also news of a couple new American characters -- Lucas will be playing an American schoolgirl, Ellie Grace and Walliams will play a dog trainer:

After the break, check out a very NSFW clip of Dafydd that was highlighted in our look at great gay sketch comedy. I'm pretty eager to see what Dafydd's adventures in the states are like.

I'm getting pretty excited to see Little Britain crossing the pond. HBO's been getting a lot of press for not having enough buzz, but I don't remember any of those articles bringing up HBO's version Little Britain. Could this be the buzz show that HBO needs?