This sounds strange, especially since I'm English yet all of my favourite shows are American. But that's the problem. American shows are (in my opinion) better, but British shows are given more chances to succeed.
Maybe it's because we have less channels over here, or because as a much smaller country the expectations of station owners are not as high ratings-wise but English shows always seem to be give more seasons and chances despite many not actually being as good as their cancelled American counterparts. I'm not saying there is no good British TV, but shows like 'HEX' should not get more seasons than Firefly. If that had been sold to an English channel (still with the same actors etc obviously) it would have been given years.
It's not even that our shows get longer coz they use less special effects and therefore less money coz we have dr who which needs special effects. And Demons which is similar to buffy in the way that if you took Buffy, removed all the charm witt intelligence and femenism you'd get an ugly mess that looked a bit like Demons! (just watched a chunk of it online before it airs. I think you can tell what I think of it.)
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