Quote Originally Posted by ThatWizardGuy View Post
Something I don't understand is why TV here in America sucks, while other countries' television (e.g. Doctor Who, Sherlock, most animes) are really good.
in part because the US gets unrepresentative sample of other nations TV. It is generally the best of British or Japanese TV that makes it across. Thus most of what an American sees of foreign TV is of good or better quality. This can quickly become "The Brits/Japanese/Swedes have better TV" because the utter horrid stuff remains hidden. I mean look up some of the Japanese game shows.

That said there some basis since we Yanks have SO MANY channels which means that major focus of time and effort (which have a better chance of being good) are more rare as a percentage of total work produced.

But there are reasons why shows like CSI (for a few years), House, etc are common American exports to other places too. Which probably makes US TV seem far better than it is to a non-American audience.