The British are coming — actually, they're already here. And they're running some of America's top media and entertainment companies and successfully peddling their shows, newspapers and magazines to the former colonies.
There are so many Brits at the highest echelons of the American news and cultural establishment these days that it's enough to make a bloke wonder: What's all this about then?
Honing your talent in the hyper-competitive British home market is one factor: A nation with one-fifth the population of the United States supports three independent national TV networks and more than a dozen national newspapers — broadsheets, "middle-market" tabloids and scandal-mongering "red tops."