The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.
In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
One of the things I miss most about the U.K. is political TV, and I have one of those little gadgets, which means I can download British programmes illegally - that's why it's a guilty pleasure.
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.
You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.
There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S. American stand-ups make it big in Britain.
I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.