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No way man. We have two or three contenders for seriously good tv series at any one time. That's aboutit. Taken across any decade we've usually contributed a handful of kickass tv shows to the world.
America makes so much more television than us, so there's a fuck of a lot of bad tv, but there's also a lot of really great tv too.
You don't generally get to see the really shit Brit tv, you only get the highlights :P
In this thread recommending Brit tv, other than Utopia and Black Mirror, most of the recommendations are for old shows, most from the 90s and early 00s.
When we do it well, we do it very well. And it used to be that BBC and Channel 4 dramas in particular were much better than their American equivalent, but that started changing about 10-15 years ago with the rise of HBO and the other cale channels. Moving to a subscription model freed up thiose channels to make truly magnificent television without being held hostage to advertisers' sensibilities. Now they are absolutely setting the tone and the BBC and Channel 4 are lagging way behind.
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