According to the latest Rough Guide edition:

England is a nation of "overweight, alcopop-swilling, sex- and 
celebrity-obsessed TV addicts".

Sounds pretty accurate to me, although there might be a couple of other 
suitable, equally complimentary descriptives that could be added ;-)

Article on the BBC site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7391776.stm

On May 9, 1:24 pm, "PG"  wrote:
> According to the latest Rough Guide edition:
>
> England is a nation of "overweight, alcopop-swilling, sex- and
> celebrity-obsessed TV addicts".
>
Booze has been an important part of English life for many centuries -
Hogarth's Gin Lane has a very contemporary feel about it.

Plebvision is a bit of a blight, before then there were more
interesting things to do, whist, billiards, hunting, needlepoint,
painting, and other indoor sports:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/05/11/sv_victorianerotica.xml