On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 5:27:35 AM UTC-7, Nyssa
Post by NyssaPost by i***@yahoo.comAnything interesting?
Does anyone still watch the programme?
My neighbor and I did, at least until last August when
our semi-local PBS station stopped showing the measly two
episodes a week.
Considering those episodes were nine years old at at the
rate of only two per week, we were always falling further
and further behind the "real time" EE anyway.
Oddly enough, that was the only show I watched, so now
the TV only gets turned on for important weather events
or for Stanley Cup playoff games. In other words, rarely.
Nyssa, who is EE-free, but not by choice
We did battle with our local PBS station for decades,
until they finally dropped EE completely about 10 years
ago. We drifted aimlessly for a time, picking up EE
tidbits here and there in the news, but spending most of
our days in sad contemplation of the barren telly
landscapes and reminiscing about the good old days of Den,
Angie, Rolly, Dr. Legg, Baby Hassan, and Lofty.
But soon technology overtook us, and we were struck one
evening by an EEpiphany: with a reasonably quick internet
connection, a decent laptop, and a modest monthly outlay
for a tunneling app, we can watch the Beeb (and ITV as
well -- Hello, Downton) all we want!
Just in time for EE's 30th, we realized that. And were
drug back in.
So now I can be annoyed by Shabnab, Cindy Jr., and Psycho
Dean on the same day as everyone in Blighty instead of 9
years later.
Alas, I'm on a dialup connection, so none of that smoke-n-mirrors
will fly. And my neighbor doesn't even own a computer (she's 83).
What made it bad for my neighbor, not only did she lose EE,
she has also lost the two US network soaps she watched for
years, All My Children and One Life to Live. She is now
doomed to watch reruns of Bonanza and Gunsmoke on a sub-channel
and idiotic game shows which oddly enough she seems to like. <ick!>
Every once in awhile we'll stroll down memory lane wondering
what happened to the EE gang. What made the abrupt cut-off
especially galling was that they left it at a cliff-hanger
when the Moon cousins had been taken out into the woods by
Johnny what's-his-name and seemed about to shoot 'em both.
Very inconvenient of PBS to do that. And they wonder why they
don't get contributions. :P~~~~~
Nyssa, who used to contribute to an out-of-state PBS station
that first started showing EE back in the olden days