American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The biggest difference between British TV and American TV is money. But what money doesn't do on American TV, which I thought it would, is buy you time. You don't get more time. You get more toys.
I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.
The pace of television is very different from film.
In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker.
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.