Backwoodsman you haven't been watching the right US TV programmes. UK TV gets US TV shite during the afternoon.

The best way to watch great US TV is to nab stuff online. Check out: Breaking Bad, True Detective, Game of Thrones, True Blood, The Shield, The Sopranos, The Wire, The Vikings, Hemlock Grove, House of Cards, Mad Men -- to name a few. Good US TV is great TV. Just ask the Grauniad if you don't believe me.