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We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks are being taken in drama television in the U.K., and I think a lot of programme makers are underestimating the intelligence of the viewing public, basing it all on ratings.

It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.

I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is now happening in the U.K.