To be fair, there is still a lot of good English TV, shows like Luther, Doctor Who, The IT crowd, QI etc. The shows that Charlie Brooker showed to the Americans were bad, even by English standards. He showed Bullseye which hasn't been popular for decades, Soap operas which are bad in both US and the UK, and are only generally enjoyed by people who live locally to where it is set. For example EastEnders is more popular with southerners and coronation street is more popular with northerners.
I love EastEnders although disappointed over the concessions made for American viewers. (Dot Cotton went through a period of histrionics that broke my heart.) One of my favorites used to be One Man and His Dog so I would have loved the nest-watching show.
It's the quiet, understated realism of UK tv that appeals to me. So unlike US tv that is always screaming about how wonderful it is.
I'm a great fan of British tv. What I despise is how Americans have gone to the UK and told them to upgrade their 'production values' which makes them more like US tv. Ugh!
@notsotupelohoney its only the u.s that dont like our tv. the rest of the world loves it. i dont know why the uk is getting advice from the only country in the world that dont play football. and the only country in the world that plays baseball and has (the world series) how is that possible just playing against yourselves? fuck you people. the uk is way better than u.s you aint even got a king or queen. this guy was stupid in showing shows that old people watch. we got tons of brilliant shows
I'm from Morocco and I'm 18 years old and I gotta say I've seen the french version of Countdown and it's nice to see some educational program that benefits HUMANS and I would love to see less of that trash that make you forget about the real world, your life and thez horros that the American army and their alies are doing in the outside world.
By the way what kind of people laugh at a sophisticated litterature show and an animal program O_O ?!?! Maybe ones that believe in aliens and evolution.
So they like everything we hate but hate everything we like... Tbh it looks like these people are almost offended by interlectual programs, the guy said he was by countdown ffs, they keep true to the sterotype that all americans are couch potatoes only looking for drama, i know their all not, or hope so :)
It irks me to no end that foreign shows go out and find the biggest bunch of twats they can find and call them 'Average Americans'. Did it ever occur to anyone that neither intelligence, nor preference is determined by nationality? Stupidity know no bounds! Though I suppose I'm just wasting my time with this, because who wants to listen to another sodding yank? I'll just go put on my American flag bikini and cowboy hat so I can use my bible to help me shoot deer. Yee fucking haw.
@TheLadyofthewest I live in the USA so I can vouch for the fact that these are indeed typical Americans. Of course there are Americans who aren't total spastics but it is undeniably true that the vast majority are.
Channel 4 would probably be inundated with complaints if they introduced an electronic letters bord to countdown, perhaps the guy who suggested that would be more impressed with the shiney lights of the random number generator used in the numbers round.
Hahah. They thought the Bill was bad? Because its realistic? Because its domestic? Because it hasn't got fucking guns firing every minute? Sorry, but its better than half the shit they make. And when they can find a way to add drama to Springwatch, I'LL Be waiting..
Hold on a second. Not ALL UK shows are bad. Top Gear, Screenwipe, BBC Breakfast, Balls of Steel, and 8 Out of 10 Cats are great. Air those on BBC America, unedited please! And use more of Charlie Brooker, Dawn Porter, Bill Turnbull, Chris Hollins, and Kate Silverton. THEY ARE EXCELLENT PRESENTERS!!
@retrospect77 Balls of Steel has Neg Dupree fucking with people while he plays "Urban Sports." And it was funny how Dawn Porter tested guys to see what they'd do in a social situation on Balls of Steel. 8 out of 10 Cats, although the simple premise is to guess what was the week's main topics, it was done so with humorous jokes.
@retrospect77 Top Gear UK is watched by 350 million people worldwide. Which is favored much more than Top Gear Russia, Top Gear Australia, and that ULTRA-FUCKED UP, HIGHLY INSULTING Top Gear America. I'd hardly call it a shitty show.
@alsdaftable You really shouldn't. It's terrible, and not in an amusing way. I went off the UK Top Gear years ago when they aimed themselves more at family and started doing the ridiculous scripted challenges, but the US Top Gear is similar to watching a live abortion.
@alsdaftable Correction: They HAD a U.S. Top Gear. It was so shit after 1 series (10 episodes), it's practically cancelled. The hosts' personalities were lackluster, horrid, humorless, glum copies of the Top Gear UK trio. All they wanted to do was powerslide Ferraris and Lambos rather than start at the beginning and delve down into the American auto industry and American motoring. And personally, it was so bad, it was like watching a cute childhood pet you love so much geting put to sleep.
@betatalk357 ( continued ) by the way, i never heard of any the shows you mentioned. you know more about "American remakes " than Americans themselves. wonder why? because the only people watching that bullshit is the British.
at the end of the day its just another show that Americans wont watch.
only remake that ever worked was ( the office.) the only British show worth watching ( doctor who )
@alsdaftable But then, it's extremely fitting for America in these times. A corrupt country with a tasteless culture, and adults who are bankrupt or unemployed due to greedy rich people running companies like slumlords. Meanwhile, everybody abandonded the youth of America to sort out all the bullshit left by their ancestors and fend for themselves.
@alsdaftable Kids who are now left having to play the brave little soldiers for the world, acting like nothing's wrong and everything's ok, when in reality, it's all falling apart and we lost our way. No more happy times, no more passion, no creativity, no hope, no future, no more speed to fuel us in the 21st century. A country full of nothing more than a bunch of permanent cripples, failed seekers.
@betatalk357 " Kids who are now left having to play the brave little soldiers for the world, acting like nothing's wrong and everything's ok, when in reality, it's all falling apart and we lost our way. ?
people like you are acting as if the sky falling and its the end of the world, acting like everything's wrong and nothing's ok, when in reality, it's all fear mongering and tomorrow is just another day...... see what i did there
@mrfwest "people like you are acting as if the sky falling and its the end of the world, acting like everything's wrong and nothing's ok, when in reality, it's all fear mongering and tomorrow is just another day"
The sky is falling, it is the end of the world, everything is wrong and nothing's ok. Casey Anthony got off a murder rap, and it's becoming more commonplace. Since when is it ok for people to kill people, apart from abortion, self defense?
@mrfwest What's next? It's ok to rape and torture? How about dog fighting? If that's the case, then I guess it is true we're too hard on that overpaid, overinflated ego, little dick, asshole Michael Vick.
And yeah, tomorrow is just another day,,, filled of shit from "Wendy Williams," "Oprah," "Desperate Housewives," "The Bachelor/ The Bachelorette," and "American Idol."
@betatalk357 yes they went too hard on micheal vick. he killed a few dogs. yes, it wasn't the nicest thing to do but 2 years for that? people got less than that for murder, rape and child milestation.
ww1, ww2, great depression, cold war, black plague, ice age, global warming. for thousands of years people thought the world was ending and yet......still here. why? tomarro just another dad
@retrospect77 And FYI, that shitty talent show featuring that pompous asshole Simon Cowell only has 30 million viewers in the U.S. Even if you added up worldwide viewers and the total came to 50 million viewers, Top Gear UK has 7 times the viewers.
Everything doesn't have to be jam-packed with action and drama. British television has a long tradition of public service and that generates a fair share of programs that wouldn't work in a commercial setting. That doesn't make them all bad. A nature show about badgers might be really interesting, who knows? If I was gonna watch one, I'd prefer it to be realistic and true to life anyway.
I reckon I could make Countdown a hit in the US. Just make it less restrained and British. Put Wu Tang Clan in D-corner. Replace the numbers woman with the dumbest, bustiest supermodel you can find and get Jerry Springer to host. Give away bonus points for finding swear words and getting naked. The winner gets a flamethrower. Just make sure that the audience screams after every sentence like a bunch of lunatics.
@moshpotpaul Some people do. Spring watch would not last in any other country is all I'm saying, yet somehow it's been on British tv without complaint. Little Britain was changed when it got to the US, as was the Office and other UK exports. Monty Python has an almost cult following over in America, it's not a mainstream thing that we've exported, and even then its enjoyed for it's strangeness.
@MrsPopeJohnPaul I know exactly what you mean, countdown is amazing(my best word so far is `and` yeah!! three!!) and if they ever change the old school scenery i'm marching into the ITV building, and if they don't change it back I will be leaving in a morbid flotilla of Hearse's. But apart from that he deliberately showed the most deprived weird programs, yet I still feel a strange sense of defensive pride.
And not to continue with some sort of long rant, but you do all realize the show is edited, right? What you see here probably is not even half of what the people here said. Like any good TV show, the reasonable responses were removed and the silliest and most comedic responses were kept.
Not that I mean to suggest it's some pro-British anti-American conspiracy, but it is just a 6 minute comedy segment, and a funny one at that.
They reckon The Bill is low quality and cheap looking? All I can say is F.R.I.E.N.D.S! How shitty do you want it? Seriously, so many US shows are overly lit in a studio with bad sets, excessive make up and crappy acting. God, even our COMEDY shows are better made than any of theirs, that I've seen. Britain is the home of the soap, and they do it better than anyone else, especially the States! :p
They say things that make it big only do half as well in America. American companies have more money, and can afford better sets, effects, etc.
Realising that, I would say that the UK have become better at dramas and documentaries instead. Reality shows, however, can quite frankly kiss my grits.
I think US shows are generally received better over here.
But you see, Brookers guilty in this of the same stuff he complains about. He's picking the worst possible examples of boring television to show them to get this reaction. Show them Sherlock or Spaced or Brasseye or The Office, then we'll see who has better television!
Its so hard to watch this without getting extremely angry at the moronic audience, this really isnt a fair representation of the US. I'm sure they have intelligent people there too.
@Clungeyfml I am an American and I agree. I see these idiots and I keep thinking "Okay, you are the reason Lifetime channel exists, and you are the reason Operation Repo assaults my television, and you are the reason why Oprah now has her own channel."
On the whole, I agree with the sentiment that British TV is superior, but that hardly means us Americans are all like this panel of fools here.
@Dhammond5 Oh yes! A Frankie Boyle era version of Mock the week or an earlier version of Shamless is all it's sweary, fighty shagging glory! I'd love to see what some prudish American soccer mum would male of that!
I like our programming. Its one of the truly British things we have left that haven't become Americanised. There are no glossy and fake tan wearing models on TV in Britain, there are no unnecessary flying images on our screen and everything's a little more calmer. The American way is the complete opposite and I absolutely hate it, to much drama in there soaps, in there TV shows, in the game shows and even in there news broadcasts....
i don't like UK shows, i don't like US, i like good shows. Father Ted, Simpsons, Peep show, Battlestar, Doctor who, Curb, all come from the country of awesome.
As an American I just want to say that the American audience Charlie put on this show was a huge embarrassment. It was also, quite sadly, probably a pretty accurate representation of the majority of Americans. We're not ALL like that though. Just way too many of us.
Ok, Brits: CALM DOWN. We like plenty of your shows. Both countries have crap, and lots of it. Just because people don't "get" a show from seeing clips doesn't mean people wouldn't get it if they had more time. Think of how many great shows take a while to appreciate. We're all humans and not really all that different in real life.
It's sad to me to see so much hate towards America so quickly. Then again, it's YouTube so I guess I shouldn't take it so personally.
I love that we have shows like Countdown, that we don't have to have shiny lights and effects for it to be considered good. We actually have the capacity to be entertained by content rather than an overdose of glitzy computer effects.
Lol that fat bald fella who said "Hello! They have computers that do that for you now." Ignoring the irony that saying 'HELLO' like that is possibly the most dated thing in this clip.
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What the fuck do AmeriCunts know about anything? Over half of the population thinks Fox News is the most trusted source of information.... A country where lunatics like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly are viewed as serious political commentators. If it wasn't for 24 and Jon Stewart, then I would suggest all AmeriCunts to keep their opinions about British tv to themselves.
Coming soon to America: Eastsiders
TheOrangeFondler 1 week ago
Need more flashy and sparkly things on the screen, is what the audience is saying. And I thought ADD was a myth.
khekhem 2 weeks ago
Who in the audience keeps cackling like that?
dibinism 1 month ago
is this guy trying to ruin the uk? hes showing the worsed shows on tv that my grandma (used) to watch
british123able 1 month ago
720 > 480 > 360 > 240 > Minecraft > this video
PianoWizzy 1 month ago 3
"You belong on the end of a Peir." - I wonder how many people got the joke.
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To be fair, there is still a lot of good English TV, shows like Luther, Doctor Who, The IT crowd, QI etc. The shows that Charlie Brooker showed to the Americans were bad, even by English standards. He showed Bullseye which hasn't been popular for decades, Soap operas which are bad in both US and the UK, and are only generally enjoyed by people who live locally to where it is set. For example EastEnders is more popular with southerners and coronation street is more popular with northerners.
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SookMaDook1 2 months ago
I love EastEnders although disappointed over the concessions made for American viewers. (Dot Cotton went through a period of histrionics that broke my heart.) One of my favorites used to be One Man and His Dog so I would have loved the nest-watching show.
It's the quiet, understated realism of UK tv that appeals to me. So unlike US tv that is always screaming about how wonderful it is.
notsotupelohoney 2 months ago
Lol, they looked fucking traumatised at East Enders
Chaingunkill 2 months ago
@Chaingunkill To be fair I am as well.
shaun056 2 months ago
@shaun056 Fair comment!
Chaingunkill 2 months ago
I would have rather seen them watch Jim Bowen than Dave, nobody in the world can deny the splendor of Bullseye circa 1992.
jackotheripper 3 months ago
Christ what did you film this on?
Tait011 3 months ago
ergh fucking sceptic tanks
alexi297 3 months ago
british tv far better than any of the dribble the US comes up with...two and a half men, cougar town!!!
calling spade a spade and calling this shit ....shit
jc210103 3 months ago
@jc210103 you should probably stop watching our shittiest shows then
kemp10 2 months ago
@jc210103
'The Good Wife' is a good program.
notsotupelohoney 2 months ago
Kinda hurts with Americans laughing at our British tv
genericmilk 4 months ago 3
@genericmilk
I'm a great fan of British tv. What I despise is how Americans have gone to the UK and told them to upgrade their 'production values' which makes them more like US tv. Ugh!
notsotupelohoney 2 months ago
@notsotupelohoney its only the u.s that dont like our tv. the rest of the world loves it. i dont know why the uk is getting advice from the only country in the world that dont play football. and the only country in the world that plays baseball and has (the world series) how is that possible just playing against yourselves? fuck you people. the uk is way better than u.s you aint even got a king or queen. this guy was stupid in showing shows that old people watch. we got tons of brilliant shows
british123able 1 month ago
Still would rather watch these shows than any US ones though.
ProjectLonely 4 months ago
Which pixel is Charlie Brooker?
Andersbl 4 months ago 37
I'm from Morocco and I'm 18 years old and I gotta say I've seen the french version of Countdown and it's nice to see some educational program that benefits HUMANS and I would love to see less of that trash that make you forget about the real world, your life and thez horros that the American army and their alies are doing in the outside world.
By the way what kind of people laugh at a sophisticated litterature show and an animal program O_O ?!?! Maybe ones that believe in aliens and evolution.
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siren7193 4 months ago
My God the Bill was shit wasn't it?
aaron9099 4 months ago 2
im from the UK and i think all those shows are shit
jgourley760 4 months ago in playlist musi
I felt proud when the Americans were mildly complimentary about Eastenders.... What the hell is wrong with me.
Otterley07 5 months ago 3
Haha, British TV sucks, that's why we all have cable!
ukpolemic 5 months ago
If i had 1 quarter for every pixcel in this video, i would have a total of 1 quarter.
norway362 5 months ago 7
the conclusion from the video :
americans can't still for 4 seconds
sabaton1231 6 months ago
So they like everything we hate but hate everything we like... Tbh it looks like these people are almost offended by interlectual programs, the guy said he was by countdown ffs, they keep true to the sterotype that all americans are couch potatoes only looking for drama, i know their all not, or hope so :)
dodudumdumdum 6 months ago 2
If I had a penny for every pixel in this video, I'd have a pound.
FourManArmyHD 6 months ago
The Bill is the thing to be produced in england and mitcham, south london
dtvfan15 6 months ago
I'm sorry for being snappy with you earlier
26wordy 6 months ago
Apart from Countdown, these are the worst shows on English TV.
icedbannanas 6 months ago 3
@icedbannanas did you mean to type 'as well as' instead of 'apart from'?
flatbeat 6 months ago
@flatbeat most probably yes, I'm glad we have an English teacher among us :) not meant in a sarcastic manner, proof reading is always required.
icedbannanas 6 months ago
Bullseye is still better than any yankee show.
mwillis1000 6 months ago
It irks me to no end that foreign shows go out and find the biggest bunch of twats they can find and call them 'Average Americans'. Did it ever occur to anyone that neither intelligence, nor preference is determined by nationality? Stupidity know no bounds! Though I suppose I'm just wasting my time with this, because who wants to listen to another sodding yank? I'll just go put on my American flag bikini and cowboy hat so I can use my bible to help me shoot deer. Yee fucking haw.
TheLadyofthewest 7 months ago
@TheLadyofthewest I live in the USA so I can vouch for the fact that these are indeed typical Americans. Of course there are Americans who aren't total spastics but it is undeniably true that the vast majority are.
rabadooda 6 months ago
@rabadooda I like in the USA as well, New York city. most people I know aren't this stupid
TheLadyofthewest 6 months ago
If only they shown Balls Of Steel, The In-between, Spooks etc etc etc etc =s
evertonjf08 7 months ago
The quality of this video is disgraceful!
mellowNdark 7 months ago
Eastenders - The future of American television!
smpowis 7 months ago
The only thing better than Countdown is Street Countdown ;)
MintyInTheSky 8 months ago 2
UK tv is the best imo. Well we have made some of the best shows in history. comedy shows are our greatest talent.
mattyreynolds1990 8 months ago
Channel 4 would probably be inundated with complaints if they introduced an electronic letters bord to countdown, perhaps the guy who suggested that would be more impressed with the shiney lights of the random number generator used in the numbers round.
retrospect77 8 months ago
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retrospect77 8 months ago
Haha, all our shittest shows including a Bullseye from decades ago XD.
The0Deo 8 months ago
Hahah. They thought the Bill was bad? Because its realistic? Because its domestic? Because it hasn't got fucking guns firing every minute? Sorry, but its better than half the shit they make. And when they can find a way to add drama to Springwatch, I'LL Be waiting..
Sl4y3rNeb 8 months ago
Shallow fucking americans
N7Rogue 8 months ago
Hold on a second. Not ALL UK shows are bad. Top Gear, Screenwipe, BBC Breakfast, Balls of Steel, and 8 Out of 10 Cats are great. Air those on BBC America, unedited please! And use more of Charlie Brooker, Dawn Porter, Bill Turnbull, Chris Hollins, and Kate Silverton. THEY ARE EXCELLENT PRESENTERS!!
betatalk357 8 months ago
@betatalk357 yeah but this is about shit game shows
KrankyBIAS 8 months ago
@betatalk357 with the exception of Charlie you've picked some of the most moronic crap ever broadcast on British TV
retrospect77 8 months ago
@retrospect77 Balls of Steel has Neg Dupree fucking with people while he plays "Urban Sports." And it was funny how Dawn Porter tested guys to see what they'd do in a social situation on Balls of Steel. 8 out of 10 Cats, although the simple premise is to guess what was the week's main topics, it was done so with humorous jokes.
betatalk357 8 months ago in playlist TV - British
@retrospect77 Top Gear UK is watched by 350 million people worldwide. Which is favored much more than Top Gear Russia, Top Gear Australia, and that ULTRA-FUCKED UP, HIGHLY INSULTING Top Gear America. I'd hardly call it a shitty show.
betatalk357 8 months ago in playlist TV - British
@betatalk357 they have a U.S topgear? No way... I have to see that
alsdaftable 8 months ago
@alsdaftable You really shouldn't. It's terrible, and not in an amusing way. I went off the UK Top Gear years ago when they aimed themselves more at family and started doing the ridiculous scripted challenges, but the US Top Gear is similar to watching a live abortion.
kalvaza 7 months ago
@kalvaza you're really making it all the more appealing... maybe it's just your turn of phrase
alsdaftable 7 months ago
@alsdaftable Correction: They HAD a U.S. Top Gear. It was so shit after 1 series (10 episodes), it's practically cancelled. The hosts' personalities were lackluster, horrid, humorless, glum copies of the Top Gear UK trio. All they wanted to do was powerslide Ferraris and Lambos rather than start at the beginning and delve down into the American auto industry and American motoring. And personally, it was so bad, it was like watching a cute childhood pet you love so much geting put to sleep.
betatalk357 7 months ago
@betatalk357 ( continued ) by the way, i never heard of any the shows you mentioned. you know more about "American remakes " than Americans themselves. wonder why? because the only people watching that bullshit is the British.
at the end of the day its just another show that Americans wont watch.
only remake that ever worked was ( the office.) the only British show worth watching ( doctor who )
mrfwest 7 months ago
@alsdaftable But then, it's extremely fitting for America in these times. A corrupt country with a tasteless culture, and adults who are bankrupt or unemployed due to greedy rich people running companies like slumlords. Meanwhile, everybody abandonded the youth of America to sort out all the bullshit left by their ancestors and fend for themselves.
betatalk357 7 months ago
@alsdaftable Kids who are now left having to play the brave little soldiers for the world, acting like nothing's wrong and everything's ok, when in reality, it's all falling apart and we lost our way. No more happy times, no more passion, no creativity, no hope, no future, no more speed to fuel us in the 21st century. A country full of nothing more than a bunch of permanent cripples, failed seekers.
betatalk357 7 months ago
@betatalk357 " Kids who are now left having to play the brave little soldiers for the world, acting like nothing's wrong and everything's ok, when in reality, it's all falling apart and we lost our way. ?
people like you are acting as if the sky falling and its the end of the world, acting like everything's wrong and nothing's ok, when in reality, it's all fear mongering and tomorrow is just another day...... see what i did there
mrfwest 7 months ago
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@mrfwest "people like you are acting as if the sky falling and its the end of the world, acting like everything's wrong and nothing's ok, when in reality, it's all fear mongering and tomorrow is just another day"
The sky is falling, it is the end of the world, everything is wrong and nothing's ok. Casey Anthony got off a murder rap, and it's becoming more commonplace. Since when is it ok for people to kill people, apart from abortion, self defense?
betatalk357 6 months ago
@mrfwest What's next? It's ok to rape and torture? How about dog fighting? If that's the case, then I guess it is true we're too hard on that overpaid, overinflated ego, little dick, asshole Michael Vick.
And yeah, tomorrow is just another day,,, filled of shit from "Wendy Williams," "Oprah," "Desperate Housewives," "The Bachelor/ The Bachelorette," and "American Idol."
betatalk357 6 months ago
@betatalk357 yes they went too hard on micheal vick. he killed a few dogs. yes, it wasn't the nicest thing to do but 2 years for that? people got less than that for murder, rape and child milestation.
ww1, ww2, great depression, cold war, black plague, ice age, global warming. for thousands of years people thought the world was ending and yet......still here. why? tomarro just another dad
mrfwest 5 months ago
@retrospect77 And FYI, that shitty talent show featuring that pompous asshole Simon Cowell only has 30 million viewers in the U.S. Even if you added up worldwide viewers and the total came to 50 million viewers, Top Gear UK has 7 times the viewers.
betatalk357 8 months ago in playlist TV - British
American soaps are reeeeeaaalllly bad. but their prizes are usually better
bigman25plus25 8 months ago
how is springwatch meant to be dramatic
00die00991 8 months ago
Oh god, all that and they like the Eastenders...?
TMinisterOTL 9 months ago 3
dumb fucking yanks
drplbiftin 9 months ago
Fuck them even if the bill did start paroding itself towards the end, it was the still the best thing on itv, and it had a very loyal fanbase!
TheBighairyfart 9 months ago
hang on, so let me get this right, they loved eastenders but hated countdown? did that not see carol vorderman? well, they are doomed as a nation
dunham1990 9 months ago
<3 countdown... fuck america
Roryaber 9 months ago
"Like a rash that married a virus."
Ha!
dadasopher 9 months ago
I will never hear a bad word against Countdown. It is one of the cornerstones of British Culture.
redeyemasta 9 months ago 26
Everything doesn't have to be jam-packed with action and drama. British television has a long tradition of public service and that generates a fair share of programs that wouldn't work in a commercial setting. That doesn't make them all bad. A nature show about badgers might be really interesting, who knows? If I was gonna watch one, I'd prefer it to be realistic and true to life anyway.
mandolinroad 9 months ago
The most interesting thing about this is the ignorance of that audience.
TheFowlyetti1 9 months ago 3
Charlie Brooker's comedy is immensely funny. I think it would work here in the US.
echoplex89 10 months ago
Oh Yanks, i do love em!
lankyman0990 10 months ago
FUCK OFF THE BILL IS AWESOME!! better drama than any ffuching US program ever.
Derp1978 10 months ago
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goes to show how dumb we are all getting
Derp1978 10 months ago
53% of television show formats come from Britain. There's a reason why none of these have managed to go international.
Eoaiyer21987rhei 10 months ago
H.D, eh?
weeandyrobo 10 months ago
Is this HD?
pauldve 10 months ago
the ironic thing about Charlie Brooker is that he's the best thing on TV today... UK or US, with or without CGI
BrightDigitalProduct 10 months ago
The idea of americans watching bullseye is fucking funny.
MatGreaves 11 months ago 3
Why don't they show good british tv like Screenwipe xD
Restayvien 11 months ago
Our version is Letters & Numbers.
SlimeTron5000 11 months ago
The only way to make Countdown popular in the USA would be to limit the number of letters to 3 & extend the time from 30 seconds to 10 minutes.
pb99 11 months ago 63
@pb99 and tits.
martindj88 7 months ago
eastenders ftw
NaStRaDaMuS2006 11 months ago
I reckon I could make Countdown a hit in the US. Just make it less restrained and British. Put Wu Tang Clan in D-corner. Replace the numbers woman with the dumbest, bustiest supermodel you can find and get Jerry Springer to host. Give away bonus points for finding swear words and getting naked. The winner gets a flamethrower. Just make sure that the audience screams after every sentence like a bunch of lunatics.
GIVE ME SOME MOTHERFUCKING LETTERS BITCH
nonnynay 11 months ago 5
@nonnynay naked models, flamethrowers, wu tang clan, who wouldn't watch that show
mrfwest 10 months ago
QI, Have I got news for you?, mock the week, top gear. We have better shows than the ones he used.
FKnopsMckim 11 months ago
@FKnopsMckim The whole point is that the programmes they showed are steretypically British programmes that we watch without second thought.
And Americans would struggle with our comedy, it'd have to involve someone falling down and a laughter track before they erupted in raucous laughter.
AjRhCp 10 months ago
@AjRhCp Errm... we watch Spring watch without second thought?
5 minutes would make me contemplate suicide...
Also, a lot of Americans actually really enjoy British humour and vice versa (Monty Python, Little Britain - South Park, 30 Rock)
moshpotpaul 10 months ago
@moshpotpaul Some people do. Spring watch would not last in any other country is all I'm saying, yet somehow it's been on British tv without complaint. Little Britain was changed when it got to the US, as was the Office and other UK exports. Monty Python has an almost cult following over in America, it's not a mainstream thing that we've exported, and even then its enjoyed for it's strangeness.
AjRhCp 10 months ago
What about this for a good trade: you can take back Piers Morgan and we'll get Countdown and the Bill.
thatdrattedcat 11 months ago
DRAMA?! They want DRAMA IN SPRINGWATCH?!
-_-
AnimalNitrates 11 months ago 3
@EbsNhexz pointless walking into itv as countdown is a channel 4 program
sontarian3 11 months ago
What the fuck are they laughing at it all for?
Neko7Kyuh 11 months ago
I don't like any of those shows (except countdown), but i'm quite offended by how shit they think they are :(
MrsPopeJohnPaul 11 months ago 4
@MrsPopeJohnPaul I know exactly what you mean, countdown is amazing(my best word so far is `and` yeah!! three!!) and if they ever change the old school scenery i'm marching into the ITV building, and if they don't change it back I will be leaving in a morbid flotilla of Hearse's. But apart from that he deliberately showed the most deprived weird programs, yet I still feel a strange sense of defensive pride.
EbsNhexz 11 months ago
American cop show: " EVERYBODY ON THE GROUND OR I'LL SHOOT YOU ALL!
british police show: " please re-locate to the pavement".
makky123 1 year ago 130
@makky123 American cop: "Stop or I'll shoot"
British police: "Stop, or I'll shout 'stop' again"
;)
wesmatron 11 months ago 3
Bullseye isn't still on is it?
hi262779 1 year ago
@hi262779 its on Dave.
looseneck 1 year ago
I hate all this 'our country is better than yours' crap
sami2503 1 year ago 6
topgear?
pittapitta 1 year ago
American telly doesn't really cut it over here though either. Ryan Seacrest would get lynched. I would gladly kick the stool away :P
chazmeistro 1 year ago
And not to continue with some sort of long rant, but you do all realize the show is edited, right? What you see here probably is not even half of what the people here said. Like any good TV show, the reasonable responses were removed and the silliest and most comedic responses were kept.
Not that I mean to suggest it's some pro-British anti-American conspiracy, but it is just a 6 minute comedy segment, and a funny one at that.
Wooboo 1 year ago
Brilliant Quaility.
KommentaryGuy 1 year ago
That's because your society is obsessed with stupid visual effects and FALSEHOODS!
You're a parody of everything that is humanity.
joneselius 1 year ago
American TV is total shit.
wizzilu 1 year ago 4
LOL THE BILL
fuckooo 1 year ago
Its strange tho cause the lastest Doctor Who is made on a budget yet it looks miles better than US shows.
ProjectLonely 1 year ago
It doesn't all have to be expensive computer graphics, but that Countdown set just screamed 70's!
aRomanSoldier 1 year ago
I imagine they'd whinge about Peep Show as well. Where's the laughter track?
jdhathrisen 1 year ago
Those game shows look straight out of the 70s.
fosterslover 1 year ago
snoop dogg likes coronation street
lukas316815 1 year ago
They reckon The Bill is low quality and cheap looking? All I can say is F.R.I.E.N.D.S! How shitty do you want it? Seriously, so many US shows are overly lit in a studio with bad sets, excessive make up and crappy acting. God, even our COMEDY shows are better made than any of theirs, that I've seen. Britain is the home of the soap, and they do it better than anyone else, especially the States! :p
MrGlenLane 1 year ago
@MrGlenLane I love Friends. It's a guilty pleasure.
My blood boils at the awful product placement though.
kick52 1 year ago
That woman with the fuzzy hair. WHAT THE FUCK IS SHE?
I MEAN. WHAT. THE FUCK. IS SHE?!
LessthanJake14 1 year ago 5
They say things that make it big only do half as well in America. American companies have more money, and can afford better sets, effects, etc.
Realising that, I would say that the UK have become better at dramas and documentaries instead. Reality shows, however, can quite frankly kiss my grits.
I think US shows are generally received better over here.
EddieTheFishReturns 1 year ago
How the fuck could this be encoded any worse?
thepdw 1 year ago 3
But you see, Brookers guilty in this of the same stuff he complains about. He's picking the worst possible examples of boring television to show them to get this reaction. Show them Sherlock or Spaced or Brasseye or The Office, then we'll see who has better television!
TheRandyChimp 1 year ago
The only one they liked was EASTENDERS!?
Fladoodle11 1 year ago
@Fladoodle11
In their defence, their soaps are fucking monstrous and make ours look like Citizen Kane.
PurushaDesa 1 year ago
@PurushaDesa - Haha, fair enough I guess. They weren't to keen on the Bill though :P
Fladoodle11 1 year ago
Fuck yeah Bullseye.
itzxx420l33tHALOxxzz 1 year ago
He wants to bring drama into Springwatch?
I... what..?
SmileyGremlin 1 year ago 4
the bill wasnt cheap, all the uniforms and gear was authentic and the acting was good.
chiddy55 1 year ago
the american ethos : laugh histerically at anything different or that you don't understand
greyreview 1 year ago 4
1:33, in the audience, is that David Jaffe?
MetalGearCherVik 1 year ago
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Girdzyy 1 year ago
An American talking about cheap production values. Beyond parody
pragmatismnotidealis 1 year ago 4
durrr, why don't they use computers to do it all? durrrr.
MrMakeDo 1 year ago
I think Charlie Brooker's identified why Americans are fat.
American TV glues your ass to the chair for 6 months out of the year with midseason replacements.
Good British TV ends after about 12 episodes in a given year.
taitaisanchez 1 year ago
Its so hard to watch this without getting extremely angry at the moronic audience, this really isnt a fair representation of the US. I'm sure they have intelligent people there too.
Clungeyfml 1 year ago 5
@Clungeyfml I am an American and I agree. I see these idiots and I keep thinking "Okay, you are the reason Lifetime channel exists, and you are the reason Operation Repo assaults my television, and you are the reason why Oprah now has her own channel."
On the whole, I agree with the sentiment that British TV is superior, but that hardly means us Americans are all like this panel of fools here.
Wooboo 1 year ago 3
@Wooboo Oprah has her own channel? wow
05Bluenose 11 months ago
Oh fuck off, countdown is brilliant.
bordarboy 1 year ago 109
@bordarboy agreed, I will defend Countdown to the death!
rossedintranslation 1 year ago
He should of shown them clips of Shameless, Celebrity Juice, The Inbetweeners, Q.I and Mock The Week,lol
Dhammond5 1 year ago
@Dhammond5 Oh yes! A Frankie Boyle era version of Mock the week or an earlier version of Shamless is all it's sweary, fighty shagging glory! I'd love to see what some prudish American soccer mum would male of that!
leapoffaith20 1 year ago
pppffftt any chance of a brew dorothy XD lol
:P he should have shown them Shameless and corry ;]
HeatProtection 1 year ago
I like our programming. Its one of the truly British things we have left that haven't become Americanised. There are no glossy and fake tan wearing models on TV in Britain, there are no unnecessary flying images on our screen and everything's a little more calmer. The American way is the complete opposite and I absolutely hate it, to much drama in there soaps, in there TV shows, in the game shows and even in there news broadcasts....
Makes me proud to be British!
chickenruler 1 year ago 7
I love how charlie showed our worst most boring tv shows lmao. We have some great tv tbf
mattyreynolds1990 1 year ago 2
it's like someone recorded this on a nokia 3310
tommyycore 1 year ago 9
i don't like UK shows, i don't like US, i like good shows. Father Ted, Simpsons, Peep show, Battlestar, Doctor who, Curb, all come from the country of awesome.
lordofbritain 1 year ago 9
@lordofbritain that doesn't make any sense..
lcozzarelli 1 year ago
It was like the super bad acting and like the super cheap quality and like the like the like the like the like the *meltdown*
WockneyCanker23 1 year ago
Doctor Who is not s**t it's really good
Fishonastick2 1 year ago 5
JIM BOWEN FUCKING LEGEND!!!
smiffy992 1 year ago
One of the American people looks like Breckin Meyer.
icecreamscuseme 1 year ago
lol
rulebrittaniaPTBB 1 year ago
I hate all these shows ... But I'm proud to live in a country where they are made and have an audience to appreciate them
Tomaloma 1 year ago
As an American I just want to say that the American audience Charlie put on this show was a huge embarrassment. It was also, quite sadly, probably a pretty accurate representation of the majority of Americans. We're not ALL like that though. Just way too many of us.
SaberScorpion 1 year ago 4
Ok, Brits: CALM DOWN. We like plenty of your shows. Both countries have crap, and lots of it. Just because people don't "get" a show from seeing clips doesn't mean people wouldn't get it if they had more time. Think of how many great shows take a while to appreciate. We're all humans and not really all that different in real life.
It's sad to me to see so much hate towards America so quickly. Then again, it's YouTube so I guess I shouldn't take it so personally.
markatl84 1 year ago 13
I love that we have shows like Countdown, that we don't have to have shiny lights and effects for it to be considered good. We actually have the capacity to be entertained by content rather than an overdose of glitzy computer effects.
paulbottomley42 1 year ago 10
4:02 Its a bloody documentary i don't want bloody drama in it
PSXDubai12 1 year ago
What's wrong with blue tits fuckers???
tkidcharlemagne 1 year ago
why is brooker showing them shit shows that no one apart from coffin dodgers and complete idiots watch?
PurpleGiraffePG 1 year ago 3
@PurpleGiraffePG
Because otherwise it wouldn't be funny.
Lootnscoot 1 year ago
@PurpleGiraffePG cos these shows have HUGE ratings
Kyle0ng 1 year ago
"this big english tit!"
brilliant
MrNoonpig 1 year ago
Lol that fat bald fella who said "Hello! They have computers that do that for you now." Ignoring the irony that saying 'HELLO' like that is possibly the most dated thing in this clip.
lemmywinks88 1 year ago
that fat bag in the yellow sweater is so annoying.
AliminiumHydroxide 1 year ago 5
This comment has received too many negative votes show
What the fuck do AmeriCunts know about anything? Over half of the population thinks Fox News is the most trusted source of information.... A country where lunatics like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly are viewed as serious political commentators. If it wasn't for 24 and Jon Stewart, then I would suggest all AmeriCunts to keep their opinions about British tv to themselves.
Colombian1 1 year ago