Trio No More

Mark Evanier reports what we've been dreading for awhile now - DirecTV is dropping Trio from its schedule in January. Since Trio depends on DirecTV for a good chunk of its viewership, this spells certain doom for the funky network whose schedule is seemingly dominated with 'Laugh-In' reruns and '80s David Letterman. Very sad news indeed, since the content on most mainstream cable networks is drifting toward the safe and repetitive - whether its having blocks of the same show repeated for several hours, or even repeating the entire daytime programming block at night (I'm looking at you two, Fox Movie and Biography Channel). Trio stood out simply by showing interesting stuff that wasn't dependent on some dumb demographics study or ratings report.

This is too depressing to further contemplate. I think I'll get back to my homemade pumpkin bars.
Posted by mhinrichs at November 26, 2004 12:59 PM