You can tell a lot about a country by the type of television that it broadcasts. America is full of flashy expensive dramas like Heroes, Australia has cheapo daytime soaps and Italy has a show where a scared man staples himself to a wooden board.

And Britain? Well, as for Britain, the world sees us as a country of violently angry scrotum-faced chefs with worrying penis obsessions, fat lesbians from Brighton, men who live in the 1970s and two people saying the exact same jokes week after week. The International Emmy Awards took place night night, you see, and British TV shows swept the board, with Gordon Ramsay, Sugar Rush, Life On Mars and Little Britain all winning awards. These shows can now hold their heads up high as the best TV that’s produced anywhere in the world. Wait, are they talking about the same Sugar Rush as we are?