That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.
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In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.
In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.
I think our show is very different from Orange County.
England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.
American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.
We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.
'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much.
We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home.
I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
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