Not exactly...

[vakkotaur]

CNN.com has a story about "Brilliant, But Cancelled" TV shows the Trio cable channel will be re-airing. While most are things I ignored at the time and the descriptions don't do much for me now, there is one that is curious.

Part of the reason is this quotation:

"Each show got roundly great reviews, distinguished itself as being somehow ahead of its time, and, since then, hasn't been rerun on other channels." -- Trio President Lauren Zalaznick

What's interesting about it is that it is incorrect. I suspect he meant "other networks." Also the articles says these shows didn't have enough episodes to live on in syndication (Police Squad, anyone?). Well, one escaped...

Ernie Kovacs Show (Originally aired December 1952-April 1953 on CBS) is one I've seen. And since I wasn't around in 1953, I saw it when it was aired by some local (Wausau, WI) station in the 1970s. I don't recall if I saw more than one episode but I'm sure I saw at least one full episode - and wanted to see more. And the musical bit Kovacs used for his famous Bathtub Scenes (the one part of his show that might be shown on other shows that mention Kovacs at all...) is something I can still recall.

I doubt Trio is on the local cable system, alas.

On a different note, I have yet to watch a TLC show about chariot racing that I think I taped. I'm not sure how much I will watch when I get to it. The comments on rec.equestrian (which I lurk some) said it seemed to focus too much on comparisons to auto racing (hardly a surprise give the way it was promoted.. oy) and not enough on how the horses were trained. There were a couple comments that the training was much more impressive than the racing itself. The example cited was loading into a trailer. While there are "easy loaders" and those.. not so easy.. this was on a very steep ramp, and one horse slipped rather badly, during a thunderstorm. The poster commented that many easy loaders wouldn't have put up with that. Maybe I'll see what's on that tape this weekend.

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[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Ooo I remember Mom & Dad watching Ernie Kovacs on PBS shortly after my bedtime when I was a kid... As I lay in bed I'd hear the jaunty piano theme music, the guy singing "Mackie Messer" ("Mack the Knife" in German), various other bits of incidental music, & wonder what it was all about... when I was old enough to stay up later, I finally got to see it... wow!