PBS Primetime Programming for The Week of 2/11

Happy Valentine’s Day week! Frankly I’m one of those people that don’t care a lick for the “holiday” though I gather some people do. Yup, that’s love, spending $100 on a dozen red roses when you can buy them at any other time of the year for $15.

“Dearest, I love you so much that I’ve completely lost all sense of proportion and propriety and am going to spend all my life savings to buy you some flowers. Yup, that’s right, I don’t need to eat for the rest of the month because I’m taking you out to dinner tonight so we can have a price-fixed horrifically cutesy special dinner tonight. I know you’ll appreciate our lives together 50 years from now, when we’re too old to work and too poor to retire because I decided to blow $500 I didn’t have tonight just for you.” 

Sunday, February 11:

8:00 - 9:00PM

Nature - “Supersize Crocs”. Apparently the crocs haven’t gotten the message that supersizing is out, and that we’re all about portion control now. You may still be able to go king size, but I know supersizing is done. 

9:00 - 10:30PM

Masterpiece Theatre - “Dracula”. A new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic. This one stars Marc Warren as the titular character and David Suchet (Poirot) as Van Helsing.

10:30 - 11:00PM 

A Room Nearby.  Stick with me here. Five people tell their life story, each apparently has their own “brick wall of loneliness.” The tales are all narrated by the animated character’s real-life counterpart. Never mind. Don’t stick with me, you explain it, because I can’t. I am, however, intrigued.   

Monday, February 12:

8:00 - 9:00PM

Antiques Roadshow “Tucson (Hour One)”. The Roadshow has left Philly and gone west, landing smack dab in the middle of Tucson. It would be better if they were in Winslow, so that they could be standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona, it’d be such a fine sight to see.    

9:00 - 11:00PM

American Experience - “New Orleans”. No, this isn’t about Katrina, it focuses primarily from Reconstruction to the 1960s. But way to focus on the bad times, dear reader. There’s more to New Orleans than the hurricane and the French Quarter despite what you think. 

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