Maybe it's just me, but I swear PBS is showing programs that look suspiciously like infomercials. Except instead of being the usual 30 minutes long, they are sometimes several hours long with breaks in between to get you to pledge and buy stuff. The newest Wayne Dyer program seems to be dominating this season's pledge drive. I've actually been avoiding PBS because this program seems to be on ALL THE TIME. And then this morning, I almost choked on my tea when I saw beauty products being advertised.
I liked watching Chris Botti playing trumpet last night, with Sting making a guest appearance. (Did you know that Don Cheadle is in talks to play Miles Davis in a biopic?) Dr. Weil and Dr. Northrup are worth watching. And of course, there's Rupert Everett taking a lovely turn as a pale and brooding Sherlock Holmes (I saw Rupert Everett yesterday afternoon in The Comfort of Strangers with Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren, and Christopher Walken - a weirdly alluring film based on an early novel by Ian McEwan). The Britcoms are always good too - lately, I'm hooked on Good Neighbors. But I now dread these quarterly pledge drives because I cringe at what they're going to try and sell next. All the more reason to beef up my DVD collection so that I don't have to watch actual TV.
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