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kontextmaschine:

utilitymonstermash:

kontextmaschine:

PBS, the American national broadcaster, seems to have channel drifted to specialize in British shows

pbs has been showing doctor who, masterpiece (theatre), benny hill, monty python, and I’m sure tons more since at least the 70s.

Well BBC imports at least had the “Anglophone public broadcasting” angle, but I don’t know if this new stuff comes from them. It seems to have respectable production budgets, for one.

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I mean, that is literally how channel drift works: you have a theme, but develop an audience on the basis of something tangent to that, and eventually shift to serve that audience. Like how The History Channel airs Ice Road Truckers cause it’s a show for the kind of guy who watches The History Channel.

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