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Seems like the only time PBS shows anything besides Antiques Roadshow is Pledge Week. They want you to donate to support all these great shows but the only time they're shown is when they're continuously interrupted to shake you down for cash.
The L.A. station seems to show the same two specials during Beg Week, and they're both long in the tooth. That boring doo wop music special with all the elderly musicians from the fifties, and that Ralph Story doc about stuff that isn't here in L.A. anymore.
And the same 3 or 4 Britcoms, over and over and over ad infinitum ad nauseam.
PBS bores me now. So much airtime is set aside for their kid stuff. That's good for the kids and parents of kids, but not for me. And after midnight (when my TV is usually on) they play short classical music videos. **YAWN** My public broadcasting donations are now limited to NPR and local college radio stations.
It must be your PBS affiliate. I get shows like Nature, Nova, Frontline, American Experience, Great Performances, Masterpiece Mystery, This Old House, and Antique Roadshow at least once a week. During Pledge week the local affiliate shows specials (mostly music, sometimes plays -- Hamlet from the last pledge cycle was pretty good). They are usually shown over and over, and the pledge week has turned into a pledge fortnight.
I grin and bear it and think of ways PBS stations could better raise money. Then the "week" is over and I forget all of my good ideas.
It must be your PBS affiliate. I get shows like Nature, Nova, Frontline, American Experience, Great Performances, Masterpiece Mystery, This Old House, and Antique Roadshow at least once a week. During Pledge week the local affiliate shows specials (mostly music, sometimes plays -- Hamlet from the last pledge cycle was pretty good). They are usually shown over and over, and the pledge week has turned into a pledge fortnight.
I grin and bear it and think of ways PBS stations could better raise money. Then the "week" is over and I forget all of my good ideas.
I get all those programs too. Just saw Carole King and James Taylor special. It was great. Have seen many great groups/singers that I never got to see in person when I was young and poor.
PBS actually has some of the best programming on television. I guess they have to raise money however they can. I will admit when they are raising money some of the best shows ever are on there.
Seems like the only time PBS shows anything besides Antiques Roadshow is Pledge Week. They want you to donate to support all these great shows but the only time they're shown is when they're continuously interrupted to shake you down for cash.
I've always thought the opposite. I watch lots of PBS stuff: Masterpiece Theater, Frontline, American Experience, Nova, History Detectives, etc, but during the pledge drive they show senior citizen programming like Josh Grobin specials and Doo Wop concerts. I'd give money for Mystery, but not the Suze Orman specials they're constantly pushing during pledge drives.
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