On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not a return of production (that is probably an impossibility for > many reasons), but American Public Television is offering a test package of > four episodes of the cult classic with Joel Hodgson (including "Manos: The > Hands of Fate") and if enough stations are interested will be put into > syndication for next year, with a regular series of "MST3K" reruns perhaps > following--the shows will be trimmed from their 94 minute running time (2 > hours with commercials on COM and SCI) to 88 minutes to fit a 90-minute > time slot (I would assume that the host segments would get trimmed): > > > http://www.current.org/2014/11/apt-offers-mst3k-episodes-to-public-tv-stations/ > > Unfortunately, I can just see the angry letters (not E-mails or tweets, > letters) from pompous ass highbrows seeing this as yet another example of > the "dumbing down" of public television. They're wrong, but there is that > strong segment of the PTV audience that is hostile to any kind of comedy on > PTV. > Retro TV has also been showing MST3K in a two hour time slot. I rarely saw the show during its original airing so I was looking forward to it. My problem is that there's no way I would sit through one of these bad movies today so I don't make it a point to watch even if the cast comments are funny. As to people complaining about comedy on PTV, that's where we discovered Monty Python. And my local PBS station runs a Britcom bloc on Saturday evenings. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
