British! : Fri May 17, 2013 2:42 pm  

Do non of you watch British stuff.

Broadchurch, Endeavor and Utopia in recent month have been way better than most of the US Sky stuff people seem obsessed with. Strange.

Also a really interesting take on the Zombie genre from BBC 3's "In the Flesh" not mentioned either.

Re: British! : Sat May 18, 2013 4:37 pm  

As good as yes, better? Nah.

Hannibal, House of Lies and The Borgias knock spots off that vast majority of UK based stuff.

Re: British! : Mon May 20, 2013 8:45 am  

A lot of the US stuff is made by British companies and a lot of British actors are in most of the big shows.

Re: British! : Mon May 20, 2013 9:20 am  

vastman wrote:

Do non of you watch British stuff.

Broadchurch, Endeavor and Utopia in recent month have been way better than most of the US Sky stuff people seem obsessed with. Strange.

Also a really interesting take on the Zombie genre from BBC 3's "In the Flesh" not mentioned either.

Watched and enjoyed all of those you mention except Broadchurch which i missed. Suspicions of Mr Whicher is pretty good too.

Re: British! : Mon May 20, 2013 9:42 am  

I don't care where it's made - I'll give most stuff a go and judge it on merit.

Re: British! : Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:49 pm  

I think the budgets british companies have are a lot less the our cousins over the pond although we have amazing actors eg. Hugh Laurie, Tim Roth, Damien Lewis, Andrew Lincoln, Stephen Moyer, Henry Cavill and most of the Game of Thrones cast just to name a couple. With more money going into budgets of tv shows and movies we could easily compete with the American dominance

Re: British! : Fri Jul 19, 2013 4:55 pm  

wf16-barmyarmy wrote:

I think the budgets british companies have are a lot less the our cousins over the pond although we have amazing actors eg. Hugh Laurie, Tim Roth, Damien Lewis, Andrew Lincoln, Stephen Moyer, Henry Cavill and most of the Game of Thrones cast just to name a couple. With more money going into budgets of tv shows and movies we could easily compete with the American dominance

Strange one really because the BBC is the biggest TV company in the world and second only to Sony as an entertainment/media organisation. It's bigger than SKY but obviously can't compete against a subscription system - That and the fact that it's full of over paid lefty graduates who probably don't do much - I imagine SKY isn't.

Re: British! : Sat Jul 20, 2013 6:59 pm  

vastman wrote:

Do non of you watch British stuff.

Broadchurch, Endeavor and Utopia in recent month have been way better than most of the US Sky stuff people seem obsessed with. Strange.

Also a really interesting take on the Zombie genre from BBC 3's "In the Flesh" not mentioned either.

Have you seen film4 'Dead man's shoes.'

Re: British! : Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:11 am  

I've just seen the first episode of Broadchurch, a bit slow but seems to be setting up a decent plot.

Re: British! : Thu Jul 25, 2013 5:34 pm  

vastman wrote:

It's bigger than SKY but obviously can't compete against a subscription system.

And the license fee is?