British comedy programmes tend to go for people who look funny as well as being funny, we're less inclined to go for glamour, it would be hard to imagine a succesful UK version of "Dynasty".

"Men Behaving Badly" was also remade as an American series - with the same name but 'beautiful people' actors. Rather took away the point!

And I have always been fond of the soap opera summary:
- American soap - rich people in the sunshine
- Australian soap - average people in the sunshine
- British soap - working class in the rain.

What does this say about the aspirations of us Brits?