WETA, a PBS affiliate for Washington DC and vicinity, is bringing out a new channel in June: WETA-UK. It will be all British programming, all the time.
Finally.
Well actually, I wasn’t expecting this at all. It is a welcome but complete surprise.
This news almost — almost, mind you — makes up for endless years of Are You Being Served? re-runs. But they have their work cut out for them, before I forgive them entirely. I notice most of the shows on the initial schedule are ones WETA has already been running for some time. No surprise there. But I’m pleased to see a couple I’m not familiar with as well as some old favorites like Red Dwarf. Maybe they’ll churn things up a bit too as time goes on.
Anyway. Your thoughts or hopes for this new channel?
For pity’s sake, you don’t need to quote the entire OP, it’s right there - we can read it ourselves! Argh!
Meanwhile, I thought this was something to do with Weta Digital, Peter Jackson’s visual effects company in New Zealand. It’s odd that a US based TV station should choose letters that match a large antipodean forest cricket.
I didn’t actually intend to quote the original message actually, and would edit it, I was sure I used to be able to do that.
As for being pointless, thanks for also being pointless because I really DO care you wanted to know about Peter Jacksons visual effects company. ‘Argh’, perhaps?
It doesn’t look like it will be in HD though. The sub-channel it’s on doesn’t do HD and the Verizon channel is not HD either. It will be nice to have, but I like watching the newer stuff in HD.
Seems like all WETA plays is limey shows that aren’t exciting enough to have been ripped off by Americans; What is their target market, Octogenarian Anglophiles?