[steeljack]

Here in California the British TV shows we get on the local PBS stations are sometimes over 20 years old .... examples , Are You Being Served .....more recently, Compo has just died on the " Last of the summer wine" ( have to admit his death and funeral episodes were good television, made me a bit teary eyed) and the episode where the Thora Hird character made her husband walk on the newspapers was a good laugh , and this week one of Barbara Windsors thick sons has just been shot on Eastenders . British TV is good at the cop shows , Dalziel and Pascoe/Insp Morse/ the Helen Mirren thing , I also enjoyed the "detective " show with Patrica Routledge, it was fun to trying spot the local landmarks around NE Lancs
Hopefully oneday American TV will air the Talking Heads series with the original actors , but I fear we will end-up with the parts being played by the unemployed cast of Friends .
American TV has this bad habit of buying production rights to Brit TV programs and then remaking them for the US market , 9 times out of 10 with abysmal results ,
Regards to all John