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It's run on television for nearly 23 years and has changed principal characters six times. CBS Morning News should have been so lucky. | It's run on television for nearly 23 years and has changed principal characters six times. CBS Morning News should have been so lucky. | ||
| − | The unique, much-celebrated British series Doctor | + | The unique, much-celebrated British series Doctor Who is rather hard to describe; us attraction is also hard to explain. He's a science-fiction-fantasy-adventure show. Sort of. The sets arc, well, tacky. The special effects are not. The costumes run the gamut from historically inspired to hysterically inspired. So do the plots (the acting, however, is usually genuinely good, as befits products of the British repertory system). It's not immediately catching, but once you're hooked it is entrancing. |
The BBC has obviously been doing something right. And the United States has picked up on it in a big way: At last count 181 Public Broadcasting Station affiliates were broadcasting the show (including Boston's [[broadwcast:WGBH|WGBH]], 7 p.m. Monday-Friday) with cable the show is accessible nearly everywhere. That's viewing audience of roughly 108-110 million people (not including those in the 59 other countries that broadcast the series). | The BBC has obviously been doing something right. And the United States has picked up on it in a big way: At last count 181 Public Broadcasting Station affiliates were broadcasting the show (including Boston's [[broadwcast:WGBH|WGBH]], 7 p.m. Monday-Friday) with cable the show is accessible nearly everywhere. That's viewing audience of roughly 108-110 million people (not including those in the 59 other countries that broadcast the series). | ||
