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Re: British TV License (was America the Worst For Cell Rates and

jtaylor (jtaylor@deletethis.hfx.andara.com)
Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:09:29 -0400

Mark Crispin <mailto:MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU wrote:

> ... BBC-origin trash on PBS in the US. There is a subset of the American
> population who think that a British accent automatically means "high
> culture"; never mind that the "humor" (humour?) is low-brow and the
> production values are wretched.

I've lived in, and watched the television of (as I'm sure many other
readers have), both North America and the United Kingdom.

While in the U.K. the programs offered, and the absence of advertising
during them, were SO much better than what was available on North
American TV that on my return it was embarrasing and painful to watch;
this despite having an arguably better slice of the programming here
in the Great White North part of North America.

There were some U.K. shows that were lower in quality, and no doubt
there are some North American shows better, but I suspect that the
executives of both sets of networks arrange for the kind of U.K. shows
that they believe americans will find attractive. If they find
themselves guided by the sort of dreck american networks typically
produce, then the recipients have only themselves to blame.

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