We get 'Casualty' and 'Holby City', the Americans get 'ER'. We get 'Mersey Beat', the Americans get 'Boomtown' and 'CSI'. Why is it when the Americans can make top quality dramas and we...well...can't. OK I accept we get it right on occasion but we more often miss than hit. Yes they make some right old rubbish, for example many US sitcoms are unwatchable as anyone who has seen 'Saved by the Bell' will testify, but in recent years American producers have raised their game especially in drama. Let's not count stuff like Friends as it's now well past the sell by. Oh and I forgot 'Heartbeat'...I rest my case.