I know that I read an article by Martha Bayles about American TV broadcasts and the world. I cannot find the article but the subject falls into the area she usually covers.
The subject is that the entire world sees American popular television which portrays an image of American life that is very unappealing to the six billion tribal people of this planet.
The most popular program on global television is NCIS which is watched in 157 countries. NCIS is about seven and sometimes nine people who work together in a semi-military environment and are biologically unrelated to each other. NCIS is known as a police procedural story... meaning the people involved work for a police like organization that uses science to solve crime. As opposed to a detective story.
Most other TV shows that are popular around the world, like Big Bang Theory, also consists of a small group of people who are unrelated, of approximately the same age and who are treated as a modern American version of a family.
Sex and romance have a role in all of these stories very much like the earlier global success story of Baywatch.
This global presentation of America is accurate. We live most of our lives in networks of friends that include casual sex partners. That is certainly the cultural milieu in which we operate and in which we work. Of course many of us do have families and families play a role on the American scene.
The question in my mind is how do we translate the appealing elements of our TV portrayal of America into something that is understandable and appealing to tribal peoples.
In tribal societies loyalty and family harmony are paramount issues. They are not issues in American society where personal authenticity is our singular invention and objective.
I do not know how this bridge can be crossed and whether it can be crossed in a viable television format.