Anyone watch this show? I catch it sometimes (and there are a lot of repeats, being on public TV and all) and I find it and especially the host frustrating. The topics and people he finds are fascinating, but out of a 25-minute program we actually get to see very little of what the guests actually do, and learn very little about how they do it.
I saw a show today about a craft printer and bookbinder. I was agog to learn all about his linotype machine, his proof press and printing press and book press and all the other stuff he works with to print a book from typesetting to binding, but at the end I felt like I’d read a one-paragraph summary of an encyclopedia. Maybe there’s too much of the host interrupting with questions; maybe the format is just too short. I find myself always wanting more.
Maybe that’s the host’s goal, to motivate us to go out and take a deeper look at any of this stuff that interests us. I have not, so far, been moved to do so. I always feel like this was the opportunity to show me, and it was missed.