Car Talk on TV?

[topaz]

Thanks to the eagle eye of cdevers, I learned today that Car Talk is coming to PBS as an animated series.

Now that Click and Clack have joined Ira Glass in making the leap to TV, it led us to wonder what the next NPR to TV transition would be:

• Fresh Air, The Musical
• Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Revue
• CSI: Lake Wobegon

My money's on Keillor.  He's exhausted most of his other media options at this point and may not have much choice but to go with the tube.

Comments

[catya.livejournal.com]

I think Keillor did it already, didn't he?

[unzeugmatic.livejournal.com]

My money's on Keillor. He's exhausted most of his other media options at this point and may not have much choice but to go with the tube.

Years ago he was working with some tv producers about making tv broadcasts of PHC radio shows, but negotiations fell through when he wouldn't agree to making some concessions to the producers that he felt would hurt the actual experience of the live audience. As he told the story (this got told the night I met hime, which I described in a journal entry a few yaars ago), the television folks were amazed and disbelieving that these were his priorities. But think of the exposure! The money!

I absolutely believe him. I was at a shapenote convention in Chicago that a national news crew was filming (and which they eventually broadcast, with a nice bit of time focusing on me as it turns out. At one point they tried to get me to move away from the friends I was singing with so that they could get a better unobstructed angle and I point blank refused, telling them that the singing was there for the singers and not for the news crew. I got that same disbelieving look that Garrison described -- "but don't you *want* to be on television?" In fact, no.

There's an apocryphal story about the time a BBC news crew in the 1950s came to the village of Padstow to film their Mayday ritual parade. As the story goes, the producer asked them to go back and come over a hill again so that he could get a shot he missed, at which point the revelers picked up the cameraman and threw him in the river.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

"WWDTM Revue" would be awesome. There was a show I loved in Australia called "Good News Week" that was essentially the same sort of thing as "WWDTM," except it was a Friday evening live television show. It was hilarious.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Sounds something like That Was the Week That Was which was the basis for Tom Lehrer's That Was the Year That Was.

[leeble.livejournal.com]

Well, Keillor did a movie with Robert Altman.