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.
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I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.
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.
In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.
I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
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.
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.
There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!
We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.