Subject: Re: TV Programming Schedules
From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy)
Date: 1991-02-27, 00:33
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,alt.tv.simpsons,rec.arts.tv

In article <1991Feb26.184845.5597@cadence.com>, phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel) writes...

} Well, the ONLY shows I watch regularly are:

} Twin Peaks (maybe not anymore, at least not until after the "hiatus")
} The Simpsons
} 60 Minutes
} Star Trek: The Next Generation
} The Black Adder (BBC historical comedy broadcast on PBS station KTEH)
} Red Dwarf (BBC science fiction comedy broadcast on PBS station KTEH)

The only current shows *I* watch regularly (counting ones on hiatus) are
TWIN PEAKS, UNDER COVER, THE WONDER YEARS, THE FLASH, and ZORRO (with the
latter two filed mostly under "G" for "Guilty Pleasure"). Re-run shows I
catch regularly are THE AVENGERS and MIKE HAMMER. And THE RAY BRADBURY
THEATER, which is kind of in the limbo between new and re-run.

} I'll also watch Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Comedy Tonight
} [...] when convenient.

Which is where I file ST:TNG.

} Why doesn't TV Guide (and the local Programming Guides in the local
} papers) have an alphabetical cross-index of programs?

Good question. I would certainly find such a feature extremely convenient.

} Instead of hunting through the entire guide looking for the programs I
} like (and probably missing most of them), I could just look in the 'M's
} for "Monty Python", see which channels and times it is broadcast, and
} then arrange to watch (or have my VCR watch) the program.

The only trouble is that they *want* us "hunt through the entire guide"
so that we don't fail to see the advertisements that constitute the bulk
of the magazine's financial support.

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