The
effort seems to be led by the personality of one-time WBBM-TV news anchor Bill
Kurtis, with former WMAQ-TV reporter-type Ellee Pai Hong and former WBBM-TV persona Kerry Sayers also along. It’s good
to see them continue to be employed on television in some form.
YET
THE IDEA of another channel loaded with re-runs of old television programming
just doesn’t seem to be a need in need of fulfillment. Doesn’t ME-TV and its
sister stations (which I must admit to watching to see “All In The Family” and “Sanford
and Son” reruns) give us plenty of that?
Being
able to spend my Memorial Day watching the first two episodes ever of “Hogan
Heroes” was amusing – to a degree. Yet seeing the film adaptation of “Hair” for
the first time ever definitely qualifies as two-and-a-half hours of my life
that I wish I could get back.
It
definitely doesn’t make me want to tune in later this week to see the film “Rio
Lobo” or old Doris Day or Beverly Hillbillies reruns – no matter how lovely the
late Donna Douglas’ “Ellie Mae” character looked while lounging around the “cement
pond.”
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