Are we Brits really that bad?

In the evenings I like to sit and vegetate in front of the telly and I think I'm starting to see a pattern or I'm getting paranoid in my old age.

There seems to be a recurring theme in American TV shows and movie's these days, and it's spoiling my viewing I must say. I can now tell long before the plot gets under way just who the baddie is, purely by the fact that he talks with a British accent.

I'm sure that if the majority of British TV programs or movies always had the baddie as a Yank, Gorden Brown would be summoned to the Whitehouse fairly sharpish and told to put a stop to it.

It used to be Eastern Block accents that were the baddies but in the last few years it's us Brits. What have we done to deserve this?