do brits mainly watch their own tv shows or american?

> what are the most popular british shows on tv?

The soaps and reality TV dominate the British tastes, really - and both are
better produced by the UK.
There's a strong market for US drama (Sex & The City, 24, Sopranos, Six Feet
Under, etc) and some US sitcoms (Friends, Frasier, etc), but generally TV is
quite rightly dominated by homegrown shows.

Dan
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<delurk>

In accordance with the laws of home drums beating first, the most
watched shows on the flagship UK TV channels tend to be their own
stuff, with US shows mainly predominant on the smaller channels and
cable. It's perfectly natural - you wouldn't expect American channels
and audiences to give pride of place to imported shows. (Although US
shows do travel more widely. And as for their being less successful at
doing reality TV shows than the UK, Buffy said it best: "And that's a
bad thing because...?")

And to be honest, the main question is a bit silly because it's second
nature for ANY country's TV audience to mainly prefer their own stuff,
unless said homegrown stuff is really bad. A propos of nothing,
imports have of late been outgunning local stuff in Canada...

Cindylover

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"Shez" <UseReplyAddress.TakeThisOut@nospam.invalid.uk> wrote in message
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> In the faraway land of uk.media.tv.misc, meat n potatoes <bagelncreamche
> ese.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> said:
> >what are the most popular british shows on tv?
>
> Eastenders and Coronation St sadly. What we really need are more Fast
> Shows, Day Todays, and early series Jonathon Creeks and pre-americanised
> science series like Horizon before it was ruined by the poison of
> American co-production money and became a show for imbeciles who prefer
> stirring background music and artificial dramatic tension to interesting
> science.
>
> -Shez.
> --

Watch the storyville series of American documentaries on BBC2 and 4 for
American 'poison'. Or those great documentaries of recent years about Jazz,
Country and the Old West.
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"meat n potatoes" <bagelncreamcheese.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> what are the most popular british shows on tv?

The American imports that are by far the most successful here, are the
comedies - Friends, Frasier, Will & Grace, etc.

UK home-grown comedy shrivelled up and died in the mid 1980's. Things like
Blackadder, Monty Python, etc. are treasured relics of a bygone age. In
the 1990's onwards, the American comedies saved us from a virtually
laugh-free television schedule. (And NO, I don't consider The Office a
"comedy").

Just my opinon!

Owen
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"owen" <spam.TakeThisOut@spam.com> wrote in message news:<z%W5c.351$mN5.158@newsfe2-gui.server.ntli.net>...
> "meat n potatoes" <bagelncreamcheese.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1d7e07b1.0403161222.3bf310b3@posting.google.com...
> > what are the most popular british shows on tv?
>
> The American imports that are by far the most successful here, are the
> comedies - Friends, Frasier, Will & Grace, etc.
>
> UK home-grown comedy shrivelled up and died in the mid 1980's. Things like
> Blackadder, Monty Python, etc. are treasured relics of a bygone age. In
> the 1990's onwards, the American comedies saved us from a virtually
> laugh-free television schedule. (And NO, I don't consider The Office a
> "comedy").
>
> Just my opinon!
>
> Owen


NBC tried to remake a British comedy called "Coupling" for US TV and it failed
miserably. It was either the premise, plot lines or whatever just didn't
click with an American audience. I never even saw it but read about it.
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"meat n potatoes" <bagelncreamcheese.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> what are the most popular british shows on tv?

I watch about 6 or 7 hours of TV a day (sometimes more) and between dvds and
downloads is mainly US shows....I very rarely watched broadcasted tv any
more...even british shows I watch are generally downloaded....

so far today I've watched
That 70's Show (broadcast tonight in the US)
Las Vegas (broadcast monday night)
WWE Raw (Broadcast monday night)
8 Simple Rules (broadcast last night)
Scrubs (from last night)
and 2 episodes of Newsradio (broadcast a few years ago)

none of the above shows are broadcast in the UK terrestrial tv just now.
scrubs probably wont be on for a long time....that others have never and
probably will never...

Also in the midst of downloading some reality shows from irc....including
last nights American Idol and a preview of tonights survivor episode
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"Shez" <UseReplyAddress.TakeThisOut@nospam.invalid.uk> wrote in message
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> In the faraway land of uk.media.tv.misc, Major ChrisB <majorchrisb-
> remove-.TakeThisOut@ntlworld.com> said:
> >
> >"meat n potatoes" <bagelncreamcheese.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:1d7e07b1.0403161222.3bf310b3@posting.google.com...
> >> what are the most popular british shows on tv?
> >
> >I watch about 6 or 7 hours of TV a day (sometimes more) and between dvds
and
> >downloads is mainly US shows....I very rarely watched broadcasted tv any
> >more...even british shows I watch are generally downloaded....
>
> Well if we're going to include downloaded TV shows then probably 25-50%
> of what I watch is Japanese TV, mostly stuff originally broadcast by TV
> Tokyo... Evangelion, Haibane Renmei, Serial Experiments Lain, To Heart,
> Azumanga Daioh, Full Metal Panic, True Lunar Chronicles, Paranoia
> Agent... if you want stories with lots of character development and
> running plots that actually lead somewhere then Japanese anime is hard
> to beat. (Excluding the toy commercial rubbish of course, like Pokemon
> and Beyblade.)
>
> We do get some series on TV over here with long term storylines but not
> many - League of Gentlemen and Buffy spring to mind as decent examples
> where you learn more about the characters as time goes on, and time
> actually *does* go by rather than cycling in a weekly timewarp, which is
> the problem which afflicts most otherwise good shows.
>
> -Shez.

Add Six Feet Under to that list. The characters don't stay still for a
minute on that show.
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Shez <UseReplyAddress.TakeThisOut@nospam.invalid.uk> wrote:

>if you want stories with lots of character development and
>running plots that actually lead somewhere then Japanese anime is hard
>to beat. (Excluding the toy commercial rubbish of course, like Pokemon
>and Beyblade.)


Ephmatically agreed.

"Cowboy Bepop" is probobably the best series made in the last ten years
in any language in any market.

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In uk.media.tv.misc on Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Major ChrisB wrote :
>
>"Dan Owen" <dano.DeleteThis@powen21.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> > what are the most popular british shows on tv?
>>
>> The soaps and reality TV dominate the British tastes, really - and both
>are
>> better produced by the UK.
>
>British reality is in no way remotly better produced than the US reality
>shows.

Any reality TV is in no way better than being beaten around the head
with a brick. :)
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Cindylover1969 wrote:

>...ditto "Murder In Small Town X" done here by
> BBC1 as "The Murder Game" -

I quite liked the Murder Game. It at least looked as if they had put some
thought and effort into it. Also the emphasis wasn`t on the "all living
together" bit.

mick
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On 16 Mar 2004 12:22:41 -0800, bagelncreamcheese RemoveThis @hotmail.com (meat n
potatoes) wrote:

>what are the most popular british shows on tv?

In the UK you have 5 main terrestrial channels:

BBC1: almost exclusively homegrown, but packed full of soaps (4x
30minutes episodes of Eastenders) and reality TV rubbish like Changing
Rooms, Garden Force, A life of Grime etc.
Occasionally has Drama on Holby City, Hustle, Inspector Linley,
Jonathan Creek, Casualty etc. and a fair bit of sport.

BBC2 is rather more highbrow, a lot more documentaries and comedies
tend to be premiered on here and if they are successful they are
transferred to BBC1 also has the more obscure dramas that are lightly
to have a lesser market appeal - Gormengarst (sp?) for instance


ITV 1 is pretty much a clone of BBC1 but slightly more drama (thought
often repeated - this weeks "classic Morse" season for instance) and
less reality shows - this is the channel that bought us I`m a Celeb
though...
popular shows, Coranation Street, Heartbeat, The Bill, Who Wants to be
a Millionair, William and Mary,



Channel 4 is a wield mix of just about everything, Big Brother to
glossy documentaries to imported American dramas & comedy (Home of
Frazier amongst other for years)

Channel 5 has only started recently and is still finding its feet -
started of as lowest common denominator rubbish but is starting to
produce interesting documentaries and sport.

there are literally hundreds of satellite channels the main one being
Sky One which should be renamed The American One, this is tomorrow`s
schedule for Sky One:


2pm ST-TNG
3 - ST-TNG
4 - Enterprise
5 - Jake 2.0
6 - Stargate Heros - Jack O`Neil
7 - Malcolm in the Middle x2
8 - Simpsons x 2
9 - 24
10 - Nip-Tuck
11 - Cold Case
00 - Angel
01 - WWE Smackdown
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In article <eu9l50lfagjornotvvrje4h6sugdishv5e RemoveThis @4ax.com>, Luke_Curtis
wrote:
> there are literally hundreds of satellite channels the main one being
> Sky One which should be renamed The American One, this is tomorrow`s
> schedule for Sky One:
>
> 2pm ST-TNG
> 3 - ST-TNG
> 4 - Enterprise
> 5 - Jake 2.0
> 6 - Stargate Heros - Jack O`Neil
> 7 - Malcolm in the Middle x2
> 8 - Simpsons x 2
> 9 - 24
> 10 - Nip-Tuck
> 11 - Cold Case
> 00 - Angel
> 01 - WWE Smackdown

Thank you for confirming the wisdom of my decision not to bother with
satellite TV and stay with Freeview and DVDs. If this is the "the main
one", then I dread to think what the rest must be like.

Rod.
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> In article <eu9l50lfagjornotvvrje4h6sugdishv5e DeleteThis @4ax.com>, Luke_Curtis
> wrote:
> > there are literally hundreds of satellite channels the main one being
> > Sky One which should be renamed The American One, this is tomorrow`s
> > schedule for Sky One:
> >
> > 2pm ST-TNG
> > 3 - ST-TNG
> > 4 - Enterprise
> > 5 - Jake 2.0
> > 6 - Stargate Heros - Jack O`Neil
> > 7 - Malcolm in the Middle x2
> > 8 - Simpsons x 2
> > 9 - 24
> > 10 - Nip-Tuck
> > 11 - Cold Case
> > 00 - Angel
> > 01 - WWE Smackdown
>
> Thank you for confirming the wisdom of my decision not to bother with
> satellite TV and stay with Freeview and DVDs. If this is the "the main
> one", then I dread to think what the rest must be like.
>
> Rod.
>

I was just thinking how much I need Sky One. They have some great stuff on
there.
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