Aw, I don't mean that it's generic, at least not in any stronger sense than "participating in a genre." I like it a lot. I spent a couple terms at Cambridge--goodness, ten years ago--and I enjoy spotting things I recognize, though at this point they're mostly the famously beautiful parts.

The selection and packaging of British TV for American audiences is an odd thing, and it does form a kind of genre--one that includes way more cozy mysteries, shows about priests, and literary adaptations than US-made television ever turns out.