PBS has a couple of self-promo commercials.One has a mom, dad, and teenage daughter who love tanning. They are out by the pool, and the daughter comes out loudly complaining that someone used all of her tanning oil.Mom and Dad just dismiss her.Then the announcer says that the fact that you thought this was a real show says something about the quality of television programming.The other commercial shows two burly men along the shore of an estuary, each with a rake and a bucket, digging up clams.They end up wrestling over territory where the clams are.Same thing, funny stuff.
Oh, I do anyway, Your Maj. The networks stopped running original programming the year The Real World returned to New York around 1992. You know they’re doing a new version of Ironside, right?
Linguist over 10 years ago
Stop giving ABC ideas, Pab.
Sherlock Watson over 10 years ago
I miss the days when television gave us much more intellectual and dignified fare, like The Gong Show.
pcolli over 10 years ago
We’re quite capable of producing our own rubbish TV shows….why do we have to import them?
Coyoty Premium Member over 10 years ago
I thought that was on C-SPAN.
Thomas R. Williams over 10 years ago
Bet it’s nowhere near as probing as Sex Box.
steverinoCT over 10 years ago
It is appalling to me that I actually know who Kevin Federline is.
rockngolfer over 10 years ago
PBS has a couple of self-promo commercials.One has a mom, dad, and teenage daughter who love tanning. They are out by the pool, and the daughter comes out loudly complaining that someone used all of her tanning oil.Mom and Dad just dismiss her.Then the announcer says that the fact that you thought this was a real show says something about the quality of television programming.The other commercial shows two burly men along the shore of an estuary, each with a rake and a bucket, digging up clams.They end up wrestling over territory where the clams are.Same thing, funny stuff.
The Real Zarth Arn over 10 years ago
Susan, people would line up around the block to enter. Any chance to be on TV.
Nelly55 over 10 years ago
and they are all on TLC, formerly know as the “Learning” channel……………
Discovery Channel seems to only be discovering rednecks and dropouts lately too
Kali39 over 10 years ago
Oh, I do anyway, Your Maj. The networks stopped running original programming the year The Real World returned to New York around 1992. You know they’re doing a new version of Ironside, right?