Need a new TV show to get into? Start with these 9 great British and Aussie imports

You may recall that a little show called "Fleabag" killed at the Emmys last year, and you may further know that it was a British show carried to America by Amazon Prime. And you may have noticed another talked-about British series, "I May Destroy You," which plays on HBO, and which would seem likely to be similarly recognized when it becomes eligible next year.

The relationship of American viewers to British television is a cultural conversation running back at least to the 1960s, when "The Avengers" and "Secret Agent" and its quasi-sequel "The Prisoner" made it onto broadcast television, and "Elizabeth R," "The Six Wives of Henry VIII," "Brideshead Revisited," "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and "Upstairs Downstairs" made it onto PBS.

Many are drawn to this content. The United Kingdom is a foreign land, exotic yet familiar, whose language we for the most part speak. England! Land of Robin Hood and Mary Poppins, of the kings and queens and Crowleys, whose aristocratic folderol we left behind and yet cannot quite give up. "The Crown," "Victoria" - we sign on with almost unbecoming ardor.

We are seeing a lot more such imports now, across all platforms, not just from the U.K. but from its stepchildren, rough and tumble Australia and mild-mannered Canada. (That's not even counting subscription services like