sf wrote:

> They aren't stupid. They use a Monty Python marathon as bait to
> attract pledges. If they ran MP more often, people (in your area)
> wouldn't turn on PBS during a pledge drive.

I realize that they do it to attract pledges, but my problem using programs like
Monty Python and saying that if we want to see programming like this we have to
send out pledges, but then never shoing those programs in their regular
schedule. It is bait and switch. They advertise one thing and deliver something
else. I relaizse that the pledging for MP is no guarantee that they will run it.
I had assumed that they would base their schedule on the feedback they get, and
since they have been using the MP series in their begathons for at least 15 years
that they must be gettting pledges from it. So it is time to deliver.

FWIW, we had MP on CBC long before PBS aired it. It is also available on DVD at
our library, so I don't bother with the begathons.

I get two different BBC stations on my satellite and they have a lot of good
British Comedy series. One of the best I ever saw was "Nighty Night", only about
a half dozen opisodes, but absolutely hilarious. We also enjoyed "Coupling".