So Americanised it's based in and on some of their most iconic cities

What, you don't like Real Kardashian Housewives of Jersey Shore?

I sort of look at it as the American TV networks realizing that they can make more money airing a zillion bad TV shows over more channels than they can airing quality programming over less air. I mean, just look at the number of basic cable channels the average provider carries and the percentage of time those channels spend airing low-rent, low-risk reality shows.

There's also no accounting for taste. There are a lot of people here. Shows that I think are terrible might be someone else's favorite shows. Some people never seem to tire of seeing different characters play out the same sit-com plots over and over again. When you have that large an audience it probably starts to become profitable to cater to more separate demographics. And again, on the volume subject, I've watched quite a lot more UK television that the average American, and it isn't as though they're all winners either.

As far as re-makes go...that seems obvious to me. Take a formula that has already been tested on an audience in another country and change it so that people in another find it easier for them to relate to/digest. Many Americans aren't as accustomed to consuming media from other cultures as people from, say, Europe (who are exposed to neighboring cultures more often) are. I mean, unless you count Canada.

Indeed. Still made in Britain though (see, you're Britain when we like you and Scotland when we don't).

Oh I know this too well lol - Andy Murray is a prime example;
The Scot, Andy Murray, has yet another Grand Slam in a poor show of performance
The UK 4th best tennis player in the world, Andy Murray, has just won his first Grand Slam

So, what are some good modern British comedy shows?

Look at it this way, at least you're not Wales.

So, what are some good modern British comedy shows?

Little Britain

I don't think anyone over here likes Little Britain. Not after the first couple of episodes, anyway.

No? I got the impression it was big there. I see the creators on a lot of UK talk shows. It's not my kind of thing, but everyone else seems to like it.

Well yeah, that makes sense, but it very rarely seems to go in the opposite direction - I can't think of a single British show based on an American one off the top of my head.

What are England's top exports? I've often wondered this since Scotland has Whisky, haggis, tradional kilts, fudge/tablet and oil amoung a few.

Oh and Scotland has the shipping industry as well, at least it did, might still be a top export

I hope it still does. I still think it's rather sad that the once thriving shipbuilding industry on Tyneside is now in the past, as well as pretty much everything else.

But apart from that, I'm not sure we actually make anything any more.

I find most of our tv is garbage.

(Tyneside being Liverpool or Newcastle?)

Well I did buy parsnip crisps imported from England last month, if that counts.

Kinda like French tv then. Imagine American tv shows dubbed in French, reality shows adapted from original American shows, and crappy original shows made with public funding and you have French tv in all its glory.

To anyone from anywhere: How much of your own country have you seen?

I got this idea from the posts of the Brits here. It doesn't seem like you guys wander around your island very much. I could be wrong - just a general impression. In fact, prove me wrong.

I also saw Scotland. It had biting flies, so I went away again.