merchant of venice on pbs

Factual Questions
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Shoot! I meant to tape the Masterpiece Theater presentation of The Merchant of Venice on PBS yesterday, but I forgot. (I wanted to check it out for possible class use later this year.) I have two questions:

  1. If anyone here saw it, was it any good?
  2. Does anyone know if PBS tends to re-air Masterpiece Theater?

(The only thing I’ve found out so far was via a TV Listings search, and nothing came up under either “Merchant of Venice” or “Masterpiece Theater.” I haven’t tried looking at a PBS site yet, so maybe I should try that?)

Well, thanks for any help.

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Yes, PBS tends to re-air Masterpiece Theater. Don’t know why, but each year, along with some new films, they air old series (sometimes because there is a new addition to the series, as a sort of re-cap). IIRC, they re-aired Great Expectations, and some of their detective/police series.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece That will give you more information about the film and airing times.

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This is more appropriate to Cafe Society than GQ. Feel free to repost there.

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