You know what? No. Just no.
For those of you who don’t know, there’s a very special group of little folks known as the Magical Elves. They have certain mystical powers granted only to their kind, like the power of empathy, or non-shitty producer intervention to keep certain designers in the competition when their work was clearly subpar. The Magical Elves, if you didn’t know, live in an enchanted forest called Bravo, where they cultivate some of the most precious TV shows and give them human interest. But what happens when one of their TV babies gets taken out of the forest, and thrown into the graveyard? (Don’t worry, there’s Top Chef under the cut, too.)
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Appeaing tonight only on your throwaway TV channels!
With every new technology comes a slew of folks trying to cash in on it. Case in point — the waggleverse of Wii releases budgeted out and coded for a cheap thrill upon the release of the system. Anyone with HD channels knows this as well: there’s a whole crap load of channels dedicated to stuff that looks good in high definition without any real production value behind it. Example? Palladia. It’s a channel dedicated to HD repeats from MTV and CMT and VH1 as well as never-ending concert footage from weird bands you don’t care about. Until last Sunday. For some reason, this gimmicky HD music channel decided to play D. A. Pennebaker’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, a 1973 David Bowie concert film that was restored and released in 1983.
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People in a park, with dead things.
Ken Burns is the man. There isn’t really much else that needs to be said of him. If the name’s not a familiar one, go check out Jazz, Empire of the Air or Unforgivable Blackness (you might recall Prince talking with Tavis Smiley about that one a few weeks ago).
Well, he’s gone and done it again with a series on The National Parks (titled as such) airing on PBS every night at 8 pm from now through this coming Saturday.
And for those of you who fail to see the tie between underground hip-hop and public broadcasting – lest we forget it was Nas who said it best in “Sly Foxin” – “…make a nigga wanna invest in PBS.”
Check it!
PBS has a whole page about it here, and you can watch previous episodes in full here through October 9th.
