Reply to American TV vs European TV: What you think about each other?

During my academic formation developing a bachelor on Sociology, I also came across a wide arrange of TV programming from US and EU (that friends gave me thanks to the P2P) that lead me to believe about some very deep cultural differences on both sides. While the differences range from Quarter Pounder/Royal with cheese, driving on right/left side and shenanigans, Im interested in TV programming specifically.

To get right into the thing I'll use the example of a program tailored to mass consumption, Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares. The EU version is more of a documentary. It pretty much guides you thru the situation and what to do and rise and overcome. Almost zero music, seldom beeps of curse words and overall zero drama. The US version has all this dramatic music and editing, that photofinish/always rushing vibe that will get your heart punding, many beeps and a fuckton of drama.

Then I wondered about what the EU believes about US version of their TV and viceversa. I heard american saying EU tv is boring and bland. Unfortunately havent heard EU thoughts on american tv. Then there are other kind of TV programming like news, sports, soap operas, kid programming etc that differ a lot from each other.

From my point of view, news in the US is about terror and death threat from arabs and the economy. When I live, Puerto RIco, is about murder, drugs and corruption. From what I have seen EU have a more international approach and more slow pace to delivering news...

So I ask my dearest international audience of DJTT about your thoughts, examples and recommendations from each geographical area about TV programming including perhaps some website where you could see (preferably free of charge) tv from each region to experience such differences of perhaps simply some damn good tv shows .

TL;DR

US and EU tv is so damn different! Why?