Oh the dilemma! I’ve always despised PBS for taking my tax dollars to buy British programming. On the other hand British shit is better (even if you do need subtitles). No denying. They can’t have the budget of Hollywood, they can’t have the facilities of Hollywood, but the Brits kick Hollywood’s ass so bad! Hollywood’s ass is still flying somewhere over Lake Michigan.

Now I could get into KCCI’s subchannel programming, ME-TV 8.2 and H&I 8.3, if they’d just play the damn shows. But they won’t. Its a never ending string of station promos. I’m not complaining about the commercials, I get that. What KCCI does on top of the commercials is run weather breaks, and news teases, and personality profiles, for minutes on end! Instead of just showing us how good they are, they tell us.

I just flip up one channel to 11.1. No commercials. No station promos. Better shows. Beautiful cinematography. Sure its goofy ass British shit, but at least you get to see the show. Somebody really should look at why Hollywood can’t turn out anything you’d want to watch. It is rather embarrassing. We’re supposed to be the “world’s lone superpower” and we can’t produce decent television. I think a group of 12-year-olds with Sony Cams could beat the snot out of Hollywood.