But, I'm like Aaron -- the clueless contestants turned me away from the Dylan Lane version as well.
But that's what caused the mid-80's version (and likely, the 2007 repeats) to be successful. As I recall Geoff Edwards stating in an interview, many of the contestants in Canada spoke French as their first language, so there were several "chains" that us American folk could figure out well before the contestants, which is especially good for older viewers. IMO, the 2007 version partially suffered from forcing the teams to be 3 groups of men or women, likely limiting their contestant pool and forcing lower scoring teams to be put on the show anyway.
Based on what I've read though (it's the EXACT same show), I can't see this version pulling any better numbers that the repeats, so I can't see this running for more than 1 cycle.
Tyshaun