Why don't we have TV like this ...

[ianpdq]

I must be the only person on the planet that finds the thought of a show about undead zombies boring ..

No your not

[Lixarto]

From what I've seen of US TV I reckon well over 90% of it is lame.

Yes.

In fact, 90% of the stuff that gets exported is lame - although I have a low bullshit threshold.

Let's face it, if he was a US series, Serious Cat would have been cancelled after season one.

[Fretwired]

From what I've seen of US TV I reckon well over 90% of it is lame. Remember that only the good stuff gets exported: like when people say that foreign-language films are superior to most Hollywood stuff. It's not that there's no bad world cinema - there is - it just doesn't get distributed in English-speaking markets. The UK produces better documentary, news and sports programmes in my experience. The best of British drama is comparable to the best (ie the stuff we get to see) of the US output.

I worked in the US so I totally agree. The US seems to produce the glossy sci-fi, thriller, cop show that the BBC could produce [it has a massive budget] but chooses not to. I guess the closest was Spooks which did do well in the US. Sherlock's not bad, but you'd be hard pressed to get a British Wire, Homeland, Heroes, Lost etc.

The BBC doesn't like sci-fi - Doctor Who is made on a low budget [when compared to US shows] yet racks in huge profits. The BBC canned Survivors after a couple of series, even though it was pulling 6 million viewers. And their only venture into non-Doctor Who related sci-fi [Outcasts] was shunted from prime time to the back-end end of Sunday evening BBC 2 viewing after four or five episodes. It did have issues - Rose Tyler's boyfriend [Doctor Who] wasn't very convincing as a tough grizzled head of security, but shunting it round the schedules didn't help. Even Torchwood bombed after the failed Anglo-US production.

[SeriousCat]

on the plus side all the best us series (battlestar galactica - the wire - game of thrones) have strong british representation in the cast

we might make rubbish telly but we punch above out weigh in acting skillz

[Option2]

I do find it funny that so many of you poms are enamoured of the totally mindless pap crap that the US tv industry churns out through blenders with such monotonous regularity, and at the same time so dismissive of the tv produced in your own country - tv that is generally far more thought-provoking, very definitely better written and acted than anything you praise from the US. Shrug.

Neil

[SeriousCat]

I do find it funny that so many of you poms are enamoured of the totally mindless pap crap that the US tv industry churns out through blenders with such monotonous regularity, and at the same time so dismissive of the tv produced in your own country - tv that is generally far more thought-provoking, very definitely better written and acted than anything you praise from the US. Shrug.

Neil

not everything in the uk is as good as "made in chelsea" you know

[monquixote]

I do find it funny that so many of you poms are enamoured of the totally mindless pap crap that the US tv industry churns out through blenders with such monotonous regularity, and at the same time so dismissive of the tv produced in your own country - tv that is generally far more thought-provoking, very definitely better written and acted than anything you praise from the US. Shrug.

Neil

My favorite drama series of the past few years have been Breaking Bad, Galactica and The Wire. I don't think UK tv has done anything to match it in recent times.

[dafuzz]

Being at work I can't see youchoob - is it Revolution? If so I've seen the first three and yeah it gets real dull real fast.

Some US telly is proper win, and some UK telly is proper shit. I'm really enjoying Legit at the mo - Jim Jeffries' new thing - apart from that I can't think of anything that's new and interesting looking. There's a new one about spies called The Americans (iirc) which I'll prolly give a spin. Otherwise it's new series of existing shows I'm looking forward to: Breaking Bad and Arrested Development fo sho

[Myranda_Rose]

I must be the only person on the planet that finds the thought of a show about undead zombies boring .. still it's another hit US show.

At least we have Miranda and Mrs Brown's Boys ..

I'm not on television!

[Mike.L]

I'm not on television!

Maybe you should be