MrPotatoButt t1_j0kx9qy wrote
Tradition built around the fact that the UK is poor compared to the US. They just didn't have the money available after the war, and never could gather the kind of money that Hollywood could amass. So, they had less TV/movie productions, paid their actors less, and didn't have the characteristic of "filler" in their TV episodes.
MT_Promises t1_j0m6ymg wrote
Outside the filler part, this is one of the more insightful posts. Few people seem to acknowledge America was the only first world country untouched by WW2, we actually turned a nice profit and had manufacturing rolling to extend the profitability while Europe rebuilt. This is the same time frame where tv culture began to develop.
It's also why every UK actor who can do a passable American accent is in America working. You have to search hard to find American actors working in UK tv.
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