Something Completely Different – British Television And American Culture Miller

Something Completely DifferentBritish Television and American Culture\nAuthor(s): Jeffrey S. Miller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816632411, 978-0816632411\nSynopsis\nThe first comprehensive study of the influence British programming had on American television.\n\nThe first comprehensive study of the influence British programming had on American television.\n\nBetween Emma Peel and the Ministry of Silly Walks, British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s. In Something Completely Different, Jeffrey Miller offers the first comprehensive study of British programming on American television, discussing why the American networks imported such series as The Avengers and Monty Pythons Flying Circus; how American audiences received these uniquely British shows; and how the shows success reshaped American television.\n\nMillers lively analysis cos