Last night I was flipping through channels and remembered, when I saw PBS, that Bill Moyers is back on TV with a program called Moyers and Company.
I called my mother to let her know he was on, and she was tickled that he was back, but annoyed that he was on at the same time as 60 Minutes and Dateline. Then she called back later to let me know she'd left Moyers on, and it was a super-interesting program. So there's a tagline the new Moyers program can use--"Moyers and Company: Sufficiently interesting to tear the old folks away from Dateline!"
Glad to see him back on TV. Of course, there are also ways to record one of the programs but . . . ?
Posted by: Sarah | 23 January 2012 at 12:32 PM
Oh, Sarah,
My parents could barely use the VCR years ago when they were younger and could still learn stuff. And now I think they have my problem, where their VCR is old and their TV is new and you can't actually hook the VCR up to record anymore, you can just watch tapes on it. (My problem is one step removed: my VCR is old but my TV is older and my converter box for digital TV screws up my ability to record anything.) I've said it before and I'll say it again: Fucking technology. All it enables you to do is buy the new new thing so your system can barely keep working as well as it did 20 years ago.
My answer would be that my mom should just give up Dateline. But I'm uppity that way. Dateline gives me the heebies.
Posted by: Citizen Reader | 24 January 2012 at 10:41 AM
I'm with you, CR, on Dateline, and I'm someone who loves to read about true crime. Maybe its stories are too recent, because I like the shows City Confidential and American Justice that deal with older criminal cases.
I have to see I love having a dvr on my t.v. It's nice to be able to rewind or pause while I'm watching if I missed something or need to take care of something else. Sometimes when I'm listening to the radio, I wish I could rewind if I didn't catch something.
Posted by: Venta | 25 January 2012 at 08:05 AM