BritishTV has been around as long as the television itself, although Britain was swiftly overtaken as the frontrunner of small-screen programming by the United States in the immediate postwar period.

For most Americans, the first experience with a British TV show is often on PBS. For others, it may come after talking to that insufferable drama student in high school who impersonates his favorite ...

British TV shows tend to come in two ways: very long or very short. There is a great miniseries culture in the United Kingdom, mainly because many great actors tend to leave for Hollywood early in ...