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PBS is illevelent 99% of the time. PBS is essentially the old ice cream parlor of television. The grown ups don't like the food there anymore, but they'll get all pissed if someone tries to shut it down or (ready to stretch the metaphor) McDonalds buys it and turns it into a Bic Mac factory. I watched a very nice documentary on PBS the other night about old amusement parks. That was some quality tv. The thing is that PBS never paid to have it made. It was made by a production company and shopped to the networks that might be interested. The only other show on the network worth a shit is Antiques Roadshow and it was blatantly ripped off from the BBC.
Public television is a dinosaur that will die and I will be sad to see it go, but this isn't surprising.
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