Which American TV Shows Do Non-North Americans Watch?

I suspect many non-North American countries are watching I Love Lucy and Gilligans Island reruns.

Which raises the question: do they all know that those are reruns?

Ummm...thinking.... I watch reruns of Frasier, they are reruns here, too, but I did not see them before.


If I am up late and not sleepy I sometimes watch something called "The Shield".

I watch the cop show with the Andy Sipowicz (spelling?) in it, I forget what it is called.


I adored Seinfeld.


I occasionally watch Southpark, and, more rarely, The Simpsons (on at a time I never watch TV).

These are the ratings for most viewed programmes of the year 2004, excluding sports: http://www.kijkonderzoek.nl/kijkcijfers/pub/kijkcijfers.php?n1

The top ones consist largely of one-off events (the memorial programme for popular schlager singer Andre Hazes beating those for Prince Bernhard, Princess Juliana and slain cinematographer Theo van Gogh) and news broadcasts at special times. But Dutch entertainment shows (or Dutch versions of foreign shows) like Idols and the TV Show, police series like Baantjer and Grijpstra & De Gier, police programmes like Missing and On the Loose (Opsporing Verzocht), the comedy programme Kopspijkers and the soap series Good Times, Bad Times (Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden) do well too.

Where do foreign programmes come in? World Idol ranked 36th, Crime Scene Investigation 48th, the Dutch version of The Weakest Link came in at 58th, the Dutch version of British news comedy show Have I Got News For You was at 70th, and the Dutch version of Swedish reality TV show "Expedition: Robinson" ranked 82nd.

Oh ... and of course the EuroVision Song Festival topped at #7... ;-)

In the month ranking for last month, the listing includes few English-language titles, but they include evergreen soap The Bold and the Beautiful at 89...

American shows? Frasier is popular in Slovakia, too, but Sex and the City has to take the lead, I'd imagine. It's everywhere at all times, it seems. Even the bloody Dr.Phil is being shown here. But not in the mid-day, like in the States, no. At 8pm! Prime viewing time. With bad dubbing. Grrrrr. South Park is probably popular, I know it's being aired on some Czech TV. Seinfeld has not made it here, unfortuanately. I love Seinfeld. And Will and Grace, I'm not sure... I thought I saw it here a year ago, but not recently. I do like Will and Grace though. But I hardly count, having lived in the States for years...

Sex in the City was huge in Holland, too, at least a few years ago, dunno what its doing now.

You had this "womens hour", with Sex in the City and ... whats it called ... about the weird law firm, where that girl imagines people to suddenly sing or whatever ... and the Asian woman ...

Ally McBeal

"NYPD Blue."

Ally McBeal, yeah. I dug the Asian chick ;-)

Lucy Liu...
Oh, yeah.

what happened to her? why is she on the ground like that? nobody there to pick her up? men these days...

I would imagine the six and eleven o'clock news to be the most popular american sit com to non americans.

All sorts of stuff over the years.
I liked "Cheers" in days gone by.
South Park, yes, The Simpsons, Ally McBeal also, (a few years ago, that), Friends, Frasier sometimes, The Sopranos, Seinfeld. To name but a few.

yyyesssss.... lucy liu.

wasnt she in charlie's angels-the-movie?

i mean, eh, not that, i mean, eh ****

(ok, i saw it. and the sequel too.)

Oh!! Yes!! I adore The Sopranos!

And I loved Sex and the City.

Thanks Brandon..yep, NYPD Blue.

The best US shows in Sydney I would have to say are 24, Greys Anatomy, and CSI Miami. My favourite is 24 Its 5th series is still going strong down here

Desperate Housewives was very big in Oz not too long ago, ratings wise.

HA! How did you know?.......

After watching the BBC News, I occasionally switch over to Fox, just to see how different they are with their presentation. Do people actually watch that dross over in the USA? Seriously?

I watched it the other day, when the screen was split into three....the newscaster was in the middle, with the opposing guys on either side, all looking directly at the camera.

The man on the right of the screen had a football sized head, immaculately coiffured hair and teeth the brilliance of a white shirt under an ultra violet light. As his opponent was talking, he just kept a fixed grin and quickly shook his head from side to side. Through his clenched, irredescent teeth, he continually uttered "No Bob, no Bob, no Bob" until the other man stopped talking.

This continual shaking of head whilst talking through clenced teeth made him look like a ventriloquists dummy. Why the newscaster allowed him to continually interrupt was beyond me, but became apparent when the "dummy" started to give his opinions.

The guy on the left tried to interrupt once, and was immediately slapped down by the newscaster!

Talk about one sided reporting. Shameful. If that happened here, there would be a storm of protest. I'm not saying for one minute that the BBC is perfect, but that sort of amateurish and partisan reporting would just not happen.

It is frightening to see that such a free country has such a biased attitude to it's News coverage.

I just hope that everyone over there can see Fox for what it is, and laughs at it the way I do.