[Shaun]

Everyone always bigs up UK TV but the best independent and new ideas are always sidelined for longrunning, and in my opinion, **** shows. Soaps are my biggest hate - I don't understand how anyone can watch the same family week in, week out, doing pretty boring ****, only to culminate in ridiculously plotted and unrealistic 'exits'. The acting is awful and it's generally depressing.

But fresh dramas and sitcoms and what not - examples in recent years from the UK being "Pulling", "The Beautiful People"...these are BBC sitcoms that have lost out to the likes of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.

How that piece of utter ****ing mess keeps getting re-commissioned I do not know.

With the US, the industry and sheer diversity of channels available makes sure that good TV gets made, even if it's not in the mainstream.