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From: dross@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (David Ross)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Watch for THE RING OF TRUTH on PBS
Message-ID: <74@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 12:10:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 12:10:47 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Oct-87 20:50:21 EDT
References: <1987Oct13.230923.20975@sq.uucp> <1336@ilium.swatsun.UUCP>
Reply-To: dross@ub.d.umn.edu (David Ross)
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Organization: Math Depts, UMN/Duluth and U.of Hull/England
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Keywords: PBS, BBC, ITV
Summary: PBS, BBC, ITV - a modest correction
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In article <1336@ilium.swatsun.UUCP> hirai@swatsun.UUCP (Eiji "A.G." Hirai) writes:

>>#  9 pm: RING OF TRUTH -- Science; 60 min.
>
>	I desperately hope that this series will not be as bad as another
>science program that PBS showed recently...
>
>	Now, this is not an attack on PBS (I love them!)...
>
>	I loved the BBC production of the _Adventure of Sherlock Holmes_!
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

...Except that this was an _ITV_ production!  Nowadays the BBC tends to
show boring sitcoms and American soaps, with the ironic result that most
PBS imports from the UK are from England's _commercial_ network.