Re: TV Channels

["arthur lizie, jr." <lizie@astro.ocis.temple.edu>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Mike Mooney wrote:

> English 'Jane Austen adaptations without commercials Kick Ass!(TM)' Mike ;~)

yeah, we have that, it's called _Persuasion_ (but it's at the theaters).  
and we do have Bravo that, like pbs, is sort of an english tv rerun 
channel.  i'm currently catching up on episodes of the _south bank show_ 
and catching the odd episode of _i, claudius_ (anyone else think john 
hurt as caligula looks like a cross between harpo and martin short?).  
anyway, while 95% of our stations are crap (and the commodified illusion 
of choice), if you take a few minutes to get past the moron-grabbers like 
_home improvement_, there's some decent stuff.  of course a lot of it's 
from the uk and australia (and wgbh in boston, an anglo-outpost anyway).

sorry for the extenstive non-who content (sort of like the pbs rock and 
roll series?), but i feel compelled to defend the small portion of 
non-crap that we do put out.

arthur