Faded Quote by Rowan Atkinson

There's a real culture of watching television in Britain that there isn't in other countries. Because we have the BBC, which everyone watches, there's…

— Michaela Strachan

I am very happy that TV is going back to where we belong and what we believe in, the traditions.

— Sudha Chandran

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

— Prince Andrew

If English television is made for the American market, it's not very honest and doesn't do well.

— Jean Marsh

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is…

— John Cleese

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

— Andrew Davies

There's no tradition today except initials, 'CSI,' 'NCIS,' all the rest. Even with reruns today, people don't know there was a 'Dick Van Dyke…

— Bill Cosby

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.

— Ken Stott

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

— Nick Antosca

The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot…

— Paul Feig

And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than…

— Rachel Griffiths

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to…

— Alia Shawkat