I know that my UK readers have already seen series two of Billie Piper's ITV series, but your stateside pals have to wait until January 18. Of course, I don't. I get the hookup from Rommel at Showtime, what a dear! I got episodes one through four in a very nicely presented package yesterday. The short take is that series two is more of everything! More fun, more sexy, more hot guys, more new characters (including a fine looking Irish doctor bloke and a doe-eyed beauty who calls herself Bambi -- wait for the joke, it comes in the first episode). And, interestingly, more conflict. Between Hannah and her family, between the returning ex-boyfriend Ben, between Ben and new boyfriend Alex, between Belle and Bambi and finally between Belle and Hannah, that conflict being over whether of not to get a boobie upgrade.Some givens -- series one of this show wasn't heavyweight, it was pretty fluffy and cute like a puppy. And my being a huge fan of Ms. Piper was the motivation for my seeking out the show in the first place, way before Robert Greenblatt and his Showtime gang found it to bring it here.We followed Hannah around as she worked as Belle the call girl who then tried ever so unsuccessfully to slip back into her real life skin after the night's work. We saw some conflict but not much, most of the first series to me was reminiscent of the scene at the end of episode one where Belle is riding the farmer guy john with a saddle on his back.This series steps it up a couple notches. There's more to sink your teeth into this time out which is great to see. And Billie has more opportunity to stretch emotionally.The scripts, as in series one, are all female written and Lucy Prebble continues on a the closest thing to a showrunner as a British show has. And finally, this show makes London look beautiful like Woody Allen's cinematographers makes NYC look beautiful. And I love that, especially in high def.Show returns on January 18 right after United States of Tara, it creates a nice hour of TV from Showtime for Sunday...