Why I think British TV better than American TV (IMHO)

[Streetwise]

Very valuable! Wow, thank you (((big hug))) I really appreciate it. Honestly, will have to get my husband to read what you wrote and “fix it” on the machine/TV for me lol. I’m not a computer person, never had kids so never had a computer educated person around - was/am a button pusher until something happens and sometimes this can make things worse (btdt).

It's not that hard

go to your equivalent app(application)store it's the app store for apple ,play store for Google ,apps(has appstore underneath the square) for!Amazon !fire!,Windows apps( beside a little white bag with four coloured squares )for Windows operating system.

Click or press then search adblockers ,click that! it will have a long thin block with install !press!that and wait !then open !although with some adblockers you could just go to a website but click open anyway

 

[Streetwise]

I love british panel shows but they don't really do those in america at least not since far before I was born in the 60s. I don't know what/how to define british humor but I seem to like it better than most american shows a show like Taskmaster even makes me laugh out loud but that might have more to do with how the show works and less about the humor format. I also quite like the drama call the midwife. I like medical dramas but only for the medical stuff not the drama and romance this show keeps the medical side even as the seasons go on and of course it becomes more romance hevy. I don't know why you like british tv of course but this is why I like it.

Type in (on YouTube )university challenge (BBC) the UK version of YouTube has an episode from a month ago ,different from Bamber Gascoigne in the 1970s

 

[Streetwise]

I will say 90s cartoons from America would blow most of the modern stuff away. Aside from that everyone is correct about the TV situation.

I think it depends on what your thing is I preferred watercolours so American cartoons in the 80s and 90s didn't do it for me

 

[Gift2humanity]

I haven't read all of the thread. As a Brit, some good TV and music has come out of this little island of ours. I don't have TV though now.

 

[Penumbra]

The shows I like come from all over the world. I don't have much of a preference. I just don't get most British humor.

 

[hatfullofrain]

I'm British and I find English humour to be too silly for me. Things are over the top and stupid. Like in the IT Crowd and the Mighty Boosch the bosses are just childish and daft. I don't find that funny.

I do like Black Books, that made me laugh. Maybe it depends on the actors. Lead Balloon was quite good too.

I hate to admit it but Inbetweeners did make me laugh.

The classics like Porridge, Some Mother's Do Av Em, the Two Ronnie's, Monty Python, I just find them stupid.

But Frasier was funnier than them all put together.

There aren't many modern comedies on TV these days, like at all.

 

[hatfullofrain]

Just remembered some old Scottish comedy. Very silly, but very funny.

Alan Cumming as you've never seen him before.

Unfortunately you can't find this series in good quality anywhere.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

The British TV series I ever watched was the Prisoner, any body younger than me who has never seen this it is a master show.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Don't rely on adblockers for YouTube they can't control the company you still see static ads I've tried different ones

I don't mind the ads better than TV ads.

 

[Cryptid]

Why is British TV better than American TV?

The makers of British TV programmes try to be topically entertaining.

The makers of American TV programs try to make a social statement.

 

[Jeff T]

Why is British TV better than American TV?

Well, to keep it simple, compare the British Top Gear TV show against the American version of the same years.
The British version had a trio of actors that blended well together, especially with the humour involved.
Speaking of the humour, many things on the British show simply could not be done in America without someone getting sued.
The opinions of the three on various vehicles were not couched in business-correctness. The technical aspects were much better.
Another show that the Americans fumbled on was the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy IMnsHO.

 

[Au Naturel]

Don't rely on adblockers for YouTube they can't control the company you still see static ads I've tried different ones

I had an ad blocker and YouTube could remotely detect it and refused to show videos. Ads aren't a big deal - unless I'm putting on something to go to sleep by. You wait for 5 seconds to be up and click skip. Occasionally, there are ads at the beginning you can't skip.

 

[Au Naturel]

I will say 90s cartoons from America would blow most of the modern stuff away. Aside from that everyone is correct about the TV situation.

WB Kids Afternoon, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network/Toonami/Adult Swim. It was an era of great creativity. Some of the reason anime became so popular is because today's kids' shows suck.

 

[thejuice]

One of the things that annoy me most about American sitcoms is laugh tracks. If a show needs to tell me when it’s being funny, the jokes probably aren’t that good.

Anyway, I haven’t watched TV in ages but I stream a lot. There’s some gems from the US and Great Britain alike.

Laughter tracks really mess with my sensory processing disorder

 

[Forest Cat]

Most things on tv here are either British or American and I think both are pretty good. I do love that dry British humor. They are very funny people. I have been watching "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown" lately and it's hilarious. The show that is 50% about math and 70% about being English good.

 

[Misty Avich]

I prefer British comedy to American comedy, unless it's an American movie or cartoon (I am a huge fan of South Park and The Simpsons but I don't mind those being American. Also most movies I have are American but they're also great).
But I can't stand things like Friends and The Big Bang Theory. Not when I've seen such hilarious dry wit humour from excellent British sitcoms like On The Buses, Absolutely Fabulous, Bottom, Inbetweeners, Outnumbered, and Friday Night Dinner.

You'd think American and British cultures were similar but it many ways they're actually very different. I'm into Grange Hill, an old school drama, but if it was American there would be a completely different feeling to it that I wouldn't be able to relate to. All the kids would just strut about in their own clothes (I know in series 3 and 4 of Grange Hill they didn't wear school uniform and admittedly I did wish they just kept the uniform but it came back again in series 5) in a futuristic airport-like school, and perfect, white, straight teeth.

Most American accents remind me of writing that is joined up in italics.

 

[Cryptid]

We've been watching a lot of Chinese and Korean programs on Netflix. Both comedy and drama seem to be of better quality than either American or British . . . but maybe they're just different.