I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
British audiences tend to want to see their own lives reflected on TV, whereas American audiences are quite aspirational and enjoy high-concept shows that show them lives that are perhaps slightly more exciting than they aspire to.
In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.
For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.
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.
The Americans think British T.V. shows are amazing, and everybody references 'Downton Abbey', and, in my genre, 'Doctor Who', which everyone is crazy for. People are always asking me and are always disappointed that I haven't been in it.
We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.
I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home.
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.