Bijou Blues
It is a wonder how anything gets on the air these days. If you have been over at the Bijou blog site these days then you saw their recent progress report on getting the new Matinee at the Bijou on the air. Like the old Springsteen, One Step Up, where for every step forward they make, they’re pushed back two. They can’t get a corporate sponsership because corporations don’t accept unsolicited proposals. They can’t get an agency to present the proposal because PBS shows are automatically rejected due to lower ratings. PBS affiliates could help but only if Bijou could appear at the same time on all of the stations but the preferred slot of Fridays at 10 has too much competition to be accepted. And so on and so on.
Man alive, you would think that having been one of PBS’ most popular shows, people would have been all over this to bring it back on the air, but it’s almost like a conspiracy to keep it from ever getting up and running. I am intrigued by their new plan of getting the Bijou on one of the new emerging cable channels, like The Smithsonian Channel or Retirement Living TV. Here’s hoping.
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