Movies: I looked at the top 10 movies in the UK Box Office right now, and 7 of them were American, just two were British and 1 was French. It looks like the US dominates the film industry here.
News: very little of it is American. You can get access to networks like CNN, but it's easier to find the big 3 UK stations: BBC News, ITV News and Sky News.
Music: Like with movies, I looked at the top 40 singles in the UK right now, and 20 of them were from American artists, and 10 from Great British artists. Others were from Trinidad & Tobago, Belgium, Jamaica, France, Sweden and Ireland. So I guess there's a lot of American music in my country, twice as much as music from artists from my country.
We can get a lot of American TV pretty easily as well, but we often have to wait ages before it gets shown here. Most people I know watch more British TV anyway for that reason. The very most popular reality shows here, like The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, The Voice UK etc. are British shows.
I'd say we get a fair amount of American media here, but it's not so prevalent I feel like it's forced now my throat. There's almost always a good quality British alternative that is just as easy to get, in my view.
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Movies: I looked at the top 10 movies in the UK Box Office right now, and 7 of them were American, just two were British and 1 was French. It looks like the US dominates the film industry here.
News: very little of it is American. You can get access to networks like CNN, but it's easier to find the big 3 UK stations: BBC News, ITV News and Sky News.
Music: Like with movies, I looked at the top 40 singles in the UK right now, and 20 of them were from American artists, and 10 from Great British artists. Others were from Trinidad & Tobago, Belgium, Jamaica, France, Sweden and Ireland. So I guess there's a lot of American music in my country, twice as much as music from artists from my country.
We can get a lot of American TV pretty easily as well, but we often have to wait ages before it gets shown here. Most people I know watch more British TV anyway for that reason. The very most popular reality shows here, like The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, The Voice UK etc. are British shows.
I'd say we get a fair amount of American media here, but it's not so prevalent I feel like it's forced now my throat. There's almost always a good quality British alternative that is just as easy to get, in my view.