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I agree with much has been said, but I think US film and especially TV series have too much management involvement.

Amazon's Deal of the Day, Twin Peaks is a good example, management got involved the creators left and the series went down hill.

Soon or later network management wants the leads to hit the sack and the series just relations in the work place in real life cause problems in the long run.

Cracker is an other example of a US remake of a UK series that was a real loser.

I like Canada's Cold Squad better than US Cold Case. I like both of the leads but...

Maybe US PC (Political;y Correct) or pansy chat as I call it is the problem.
Brilliant but Cancelled,  UPC 025193031228: Crime Dramas, (Johnny Staccato, Delvecchio, Gideon Oliver, Touching Evil (2004))
Brilliant But Cancelled UPC 025193012821: EZ Streets, too gritty.
and one of my favorites, Millennium (1996-1998) too gritty.

I have a number of UK and Canadian crime drams series and the number of episodes are usually about half of the US series per season. I heard interviews which a number of actors have stated that the production is too hurried. some of the series on Showtime, HBO, cabole have fewer episodes per season and usually better.

Some say that there is only a certain number of plots of which there appears to be no agreement as to what they are. So that leaves the development of the characters and there situations that make the difference.

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Laugh all you want but the author of the book, John Ajvide Lindqvist, seems to agree with King's opinion.

Yes, I continue laughing. Have you ever heard about promotion? Lets assume that it is the best US horror film in 20 years. The only thing that it tells us is how poor state US horror genre has been for last 20 years. If I'd like to see a good horror film made for example in this decade, I would see films from Spain, France, Mexico, UK, Australia, Canada, Sweden and so on. I cannot remember any really good horror film from the US for a long time. There has been some relative good though.

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America has two types of TV...regular, over the air, broadcast TV and Cable, have to pay for the service, TV.  The former has strict standards as to what is and isn't acceptable.  The latter, does not...you can't show hardcore porn, but other than that, just about anything else goes.

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I can tell you that we aren't as prudish as some people seem to think we are.

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Got Jonathan Creek.
Murder In Mind doesn't seem available in US, I'll have to check my new Oppo for region code fix

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Astrakan, when I was working in Canada, a few decades ago, the deal was after 9:00 PM on TV anything went. They figured the kids should be in bed, Is that still the case?
In the US the TV is the baby sitter that and the moral majority I think attributes to our prudishness.

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While I don't know exactly how prudish some people seem to think you are, the fact that the FCC exist at all and that their rules are tolerated points to a pretty high level of prudishness. Exhibit A has got to be Janet Jackson and the Super Bowl.

This points to the over protective nature, of our country, when it comes to what children are allowed to see, not the prudishness.  If we had a pretty high level of prudishness, cable TV would not exist

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Wait, you aren't calling him a liar, but you don't believe what he wrote.  I am sorry but, isn't that the same thing?