As it's reported that Victoria Beckham is to get a permanent place on the American Idol judging panel, we wonder if she'll make it as big across the pond as some of the other Brits in our gallery...
One of the more surprising Brit successes in the US in recent years has been the enormous popularity of Hugh Laurie as a grumpy American doctor in House. The affable funnyman had seemed forever destined to live in former comedy partner Stephen Fry's shadow - until he put that stethoscope around his neck.
No Britons - and very few yanks come to think of it - are bigger stars than Simon Cowell at the moment. The American Idol head judge may have been regarded as a panto villain at first, but has slowly charmed the US viewing public with his honesty and wit.
Viewers of hit US crime drama The Wire could be forgiven for never realising that Dominic West, who plays screwed-up cop Jimmy McNulty, is as American as apple pie - but he actually hails from Sheffield and has a rather plummy British accent, don't you know.
She had a decent if unremarkable pop career in the UK, so there were some surprised faces when Natasha Beddingfield became the first British solo female to top the US charts for 20 years.
Ian McShane had every right to think his career was effectively over once the adventures of rogue-ish antiques dealer Lovejoy left our screens in 1994, so he was as surprised as the rest of us when he was picked for a major role in prestigious western noir drama Deadwood.
While most British music fans lost interest in Depeche Mode when they failed to release anything else as catchy as Just Can't Get Enough - they have been absolutely massive in the US throughout the nineties and into the noughties.
Gordon Ramsay clearly knows the recipe for success in the US, and has used his trademark arrogance to carve out a space as one of America's best-known (and most loathed) celebrity chefs.
For years Anthony Head was typecast as "the Gold Blend bloke" and couldn't get arrested in the UK, but getting the role of Rupert Giles in the hugely popular teen sci-fi show Buffy The Vampire Slayer revitalised his career on both sides of the Atlantic.
Another thespian from over here who did rather well over there is Jane Leeves, who played housekeeper Daphne in sitcom Frasier - even though she had a weirder British accent than most Dick Van Dyke in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.