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[darklinensuit]

After the recent ABC-bashing thread, I thought I'd add a positive one. Anybody else love PBS?
Today I'm showing "Warrior Challenge: Episode I (Romans)" in my classes. The kids are into it.
Give me a good history documentary (or reality show, in this case) and I'm happy. :D

- Jake

[ShamHy89]

I love PBS too. I think it often brings some much needed history and culture to our abyssmal world of television. Plus, volunteering to answer the phones on their annual money drives is so much fun. Last time I got to see the set of Zoom. :thumbsup:

Shamus :D

[GardenStateGirlie]

I truly do love PBS. From their history specials to travel programs to the programming they bring from other countries (Made In Canada and The Newsroom are two of my favorite shows of all time), PBS brings a variety of great programing to the airways. Wow. I sound like a public service announcement for PBS.

[darklinensuit]

I truly do love PBS. From their history specials to travel programs to the programming they bring from other countries (Made In Canada and The Newsroom are two of my favorite shows of all time), PBS brings a variety of great programing to the airways. Wow. I sound like a public service announcement for PBS.

Oh yeah, the travel shows. I like the Rick Steves series.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

I love PBS too. I think it often brings some much needed history and culture to our abyssmal world of television. Plus, volunteering to answer the phones on their annual money drives is so much fun. Last time I got to see the set of Zoom. :thumbsup:

Shamus :D

How often have you done the phone thing? Maybe I'll do that some time.

- Jake

[DrummerDeanna]

I love PBS...but never really had an appreciation for it until I started working at an NPR affiliate...and right upstairs from us is a PBS affiliate...and also my appreciation has grown since my nephew has been around...

The children's programming is really good, especially Magic School Bus...very cool..and most of them are very educational..which is also good...

As for me, the PBS station here shows a couple of Brit-coms which I love and I also enjoy history programs etc...

[darklinensuit]

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As for me, the PBS station here shows a couple of Brit-coms which I love ...

The only ones I've seen and enjoyed are Keeping Up Appearances and Mr. Bean. Everyone I know loves Faulty Towers and Are You Being Served, but I've never gotten into them. (On the home front, I'm the only person who hasn't developed a taste for MASH, apparently.)

- Jake

[Siri Ruane]

I love it as well, but I hardly ever watch it... or any TV for that matter. Too many siblings hogging the television 24/7 :(

[darklinensuit]

I love it as well, but I hardly ever watch it... or any TV for that matter. Too many siblings hogging the television 24/7 :(

I grew up in one of those houses with a TV in every room.
You know, 1970s-style day-care. ;)

- Jake

[dissention]

I love PBS. Frontline is one of the best shows on TV. The one they just aired about John O'Neill was superb. I love all of the Britcoms that they play on the weekends (especially "The Viccar of Dibley") and I'm so happy that we finally got a new Prime Suspect. And the one around here plays "The Goodbye Girl" constantly, and I love that movie. :D

[sodascouts]

I don't get it. E-mailed my cable provider to complain - never got a reply. :mad:

[GardenStateGirlie]

Oh yeah, the travel shows. I like the Rick Steves series.

- Jake

I like Travels with Rick Steves a lot. Except it always looks like it was filmed 10 years ago...even the newer episodes.

On our station they puts the playhouse series on (i can't think of what it's actually called). For instance, recently they've been showing The Women starring Cynthia Nixon (with a host of other famous actresses as well) and they've also show Crazy For You and a few other musicals and plays.

Even though BBC plays them now, Coupling is on PBS here as is Monarch of the Glen, both of which I really like (Jake, you actually remind me of the one guy on Monarch :nod: )

[DeeGeMe]

I had the misfortune to work for a PBS affiliate. As a result, I will never again donate a single dollar to PBS. To see how funds raised by the station were misused by management would turn your stomach. Fancy catered luncheons & dinners for board members, lavish banquets & balls meant to lure high-dollar contributors (it didn't work), Cell phones for everyone at the station-and the money spent on constantly redecorating offices alone would blow your mind. I kinda went off PBS altogether after that experience. But once upon a time, yeah, I'll admit, I did like their shows.

[sparky]

I like PBS. Interesting content, and I did two movies for them that were great fun. Low budget, but great fun.

[Siri Ruane]

I grew up in one of those houses with a TV in every room.
You know, 1970s-style day-care. ;)

- Jake

Yet another reason I should have been bored 20 years earlier! :lol:

[DrummerDeanna]

I had the misfortune to work for a PBS affiliate. As a result, I will never again donate a single dollar to PBS. To see how funds raised by the station were misused by management would turn your stomach. Fancy catered luncheons & dinners for board members, lavish banquets & balls meant to lure high-dollar contributors (it didn't work), Cell phones for everyone at the station-and the money spent on constantly redecorating offices alone would blow your mind. I kinda went off PBS altogether after that experience. But once upon a time, yeah, I'll admit, I did like their shows.

Wow..where was that!?! Our PBS affiliate is nothing like that...the money raised goes directly into the station..no fancy luncheons no cell phones etc...in fact they struggle for what they have and utilize it well...it's disheartening to hear about the kind of stations you're talking about...sounds like commercial tv haha...

Anyway...this reminds me, while in Vegas I was watching a show on PBS, a britcom...I don't know what it was...maybe one of you can identify it...

There were two guys...one I guess they're cousins and from another planet or something because the ep was about one of the guys taking the other's super powers away...and he ended having to do the super hero work...well, he gave the guy his powers back so he could work in a store and save money to buy his girlfriend a car..but the other guy misused his power and ended up stealing all sorts of things like the crown jewels and stuff...any clues as to what this show is??

[GardenStateGirlie]

There were two guys...one I guess they're cousins and from another planet or something because the ep was about one of the guys taking the other's super powers away...and he ended having to do the super hero work...well, he gave the guy his powers back so he could work in a store and save money to buy his girlfriend a car..but the other guy misused his power and ended up stealing all sorts of things like the crown jewels and stuff...any clues as to what this show is??

I've never watched an entire episode but i'm fairly certain you're speaking of Red Dwarf. This is me...full of useless trivia and information :laugh:

[Hawkeye]

er Soundstage Pbs sucks :shrug: :lol: Sorry to dissagree with you all.

[DeeGeMe]

[QUOTE=DrummerDeanna]Wow..where was that!?! Our PBS affiliate is nothing like that...the money raised goes directly into the station..no fancy luncheons no cell phones etc...in fact they struggle for what they have and utilize it well...it's disheartening to hear about the kind of stations you're talking about...sounds like commercial tv haha...

To protect the guilty, I'll just say that it was a PBS affiliate in a Top 30 market. I worked in commercial TV for about 5 years at that point and had had enough of the rat race and thought Public TV would be better. I was wrong. I went back to commercial TV very willingly. I ended up working in TV for a total of 10 years. I finally decided my talents would be better used elsewhere--and found the perfect job at long last. I am both happy and encouraged to hear that your PBS affiliate spends it funds far more wisely than the one I worked for did.

[DrummerDeanna]

To protect the guilty, I'll just say that it was a PBS affiliate in a Top 30 market. I worked in commercial TV for about 5 years at that point and had had enough of the rat race and thought Public TV would be better. I was wrong. I went back to commercial TV very willingly. I ended up working in TV for a total of 10 years. I finally decided my talents would be better used elsewhere--and found the perfect job at long last. I am both happy and encouraged to hear that your PBS affiliate spends it funds far more wisely than the one I worked for did.


Hmmm...well that is truly unfortunate. As for me, you couldn't pay me to work in tv...commercial or public lol...especially after the conference I went to, it made me eternally grateful that I'm not in tv...

However at this point I've only received one full-time job offer and it was from a tv station in El Paso, Texas lol...I didn't even apply for it!!!

Yeah, but I just don't like the cut throat egotist environment of tv...even our little PBS affiliate has some ego issues (with students who produce the news program)...but I know there are a lot of really cool "behind the scenes" folks in tv...I do enjoy them :D

[DeeGeMe]

However at this point I've only received one full-time job offer and it was from a tv station in El Paso, Texas lol...I didn't even apply for it!!!Yeah, but I just don't like the cut throat egotist environment of tv...even our little PBS affiliate has some ego issues (with students who produce the news program)...but I know there are a lot of really cool "behind the scenes" folks in tv...I do enjoy them :D

I really did learn a lot from my years' in TV--how to work in a fast-paced, deadline driven industry; how to make snap decisions; how to curse like a sailor; how to duck when one of the anchors is throwing something at you--say a chair or something; and most important of all--how not to treat people! Nothing phases me much anymore. I see co-workers fall apart over the least little things. I smile at them and think, "You can't scare me--I used to work in TV!"

I was watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann a few months ago and he was doing a segment on Psychopathic bosses and he stated that he believed that there were more mentally ill folks working in TV than in any other industry. I'd say he was about dead-on in that assessment! TV does indeed demand certain personality traits--traits that aren't necessarily that attractive. I quit when I realized how big a bitch I'd actually turned into and how miserable I really was.

The irony? I make a lot more money now and I'm a heck of a lot happier doing what I do now (I'm a writer & researcher---who works with a lot of non-profits and government agencies).

I hope you find a great job--I'm not saying that all TV stations are bad--just the ones I had the misfortune to work for! If radio is your passion-hold out for that radio job. It's a good sign that you got an unsolicited job offer. And if you do decide to take a TV job--check out TVSpy.com-and sign up for their "Watercooler" message board. You can ask about an organization before you sign up--I wish this would have been around 15 years ago. I still check in to see what the industry gossip is there. A recent thread was all about one of my old stations. From the sound of it, nothing much had really changed.