PBS Primetime Programming for the Week of February 8

Do you remember last week? Last week I discussed my upset and my distress at not being able to draw. I think the ability to draw would really help move forward my concepts for The Sword in the Stone ride. Think about it - if I could draw, I could show you exactly what I saw the ride as being; I really think I might be able to convince you that the idea was genius. That is, if you don't believe already.

Sunday, February 8:

8:00 - 9:00PM

Nature - “Drakensberg:  Barrier of Spears.” The Drakensberg Mountains are, I've been told, "southern Africa's Alps." That sort of statement always makes me wonder why the Alps couldn't be Europe's Drakensberg Mountains. Seriously people, why does it have to be that Africa's mountains are compared to Europe instead of vice versa?

9:00 – 10:30PM

Masterpiece Classic - "Sense and Sensibility (Part Two)." Do you remember back in the Spring of 2008 when Masterpiece aired what they referred to as "The Complete Jane Austen?" Well, this originally aired then, they're not so much repeating that "Complete" thing, but they are re-airing this bit.

10:30 – 11:00PM

Get Ready for Digital TV. Two lovely gentleman from This Old House, Norm Abram and Kevin O'Connor, are here to tell you all about getting ready for digital TV (as the transition is coming in February 2009). Pretty much the answer is that if you have cable or satellite you're fine and that if you don't you're probably going to need a converter box and the government will give you a coupon to buy one.

Monday, February 9:

8:00 - 9:00PM

Antiques Roadshow - "Dallas (Hour Three)." I wonder if people will be bringing cans of oil from the 1950s to the Roadshow. I could see that. Maybe Miss Ellie will even show up. Maybe she'll bring the gun that shot J.R. Maybe someone will bring a baseball from that game the Texas Rangers won that one time, you remember, I think it happened back in 1993.

9:00 – 10:30PM

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: American Experience. Just two months after Abraham Lincoln said something along the lines of "With malice for none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on toe finish the work we are in. Let us bind the nations wounds, care for him who shall have borne the battle, and his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations," he was assassinated. Learn all about it.

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