Quote Originally Posted by Freelander Sporrano
Not really I pay and additional $50 a month just so I can watch anything decent. BBC prime and Discovery etc

The non commercial channels not bad the other national channel is just full of cheap American reality programs (or Norwegian copies)Sorry about that...But Don't you Americans have decent TV ? I'm just wondering.

I hope you don't take offence . It's just when I see these programs on occasion I get to wondering about the American viewing public. Don't you ever complain about the rubbish on your tele's?

When they show a new American program over here they say "The most seen program in America" or some such It's usually rubbish.

Sorry about the rant. I wouldn't mind some answers.
Ah... so with your cable it's similar.

No, your impresssions of American network television are largely correct. We do have a few shows that break out and do something different once in a while, but those are few and far between. And when they do break out, they are so widely emulated that they become parodies of themselves after a while. Hence the popularity of cable TV here.