This is what they're doing with the four hundred billion tax dollars they steal from us every year? Putting on shows in France?

Mr. Coffee Nerves: This is what they're doing with the four hundred billion tax dollars they steal from us every year? Putting on shows in France?

I love every single thing about this comment.

Now Victor Borge can take over their culture as well

Mr. Coffee Nerves: This is what they're doing with the four hundred billion tax dollars they steal from us every year? Putting on shows in France?

Great. One "Mark Russell: Live from Washington" rerun and they'll be sending troops back to reclaim the 'colonies' for our own protection.

Grapple: Now Victor Borge can take over their culture as well

I wonder how they'll feel about Lawrence Welk.

Now if only PBS USA would show quality programming like that...

WTF Indeed: "The New Yankee Workshop" might need a name change.

I was there in 2007 and still was hearing "colonies". I nearly hurt the man who said it to me.

BroVinny: nitefallz: BroVinny: Good. The Brits will have equal opportunity to be as annoyed with Elmo as I was.

I think you missed the punchline.

In the states PBS shows these British shows to us and now we'll be offering these shows to the Brits.......do I need to get the sock puppets?

No, I got that. I ignored the punchline for the obvious real-life implications of PBS setting up shop in England.

Yeah, doesn't the UK already have their own version of PBS that they call BBC?

Sure, it's a slightly different model, but the BBC is funded through government tax dollars, and isn't reliant on commercial ad dollars... just like PBS.

So, why does the UK need PBS? They have the BBC, which has always been doing a much better job than the US Commercial networks AND PBS.

landimal: WTF Indeed: "The New Yankee Workshop" might need a name change.

Every time that show comes on I just stand there mouth agape. That man is my hero.

Ah, yes, that show is great. Made me want to be a cabinet maker when I was a kid. My buddy who used to work for This Old House (the magazine, not the show) used to know Norm Abrams and said he was a really nice guy.

Fano: So we are going to give them back Teletubbies?

I think they refuse to take the Teletubbies back unless we give them Bob Ross and the Frugal Gourmet.

Does Britain, home to the BBC, one of the most respected broadcasters in the world, really need to import serious television from the United States? When many Britons think of American television, they imagine silly sitcoms or the "fair and balanced" output of Fox News - owned by the same company, News Corporation, whose newspapers are first in the firing line in the investigation into the hacking of celebrities' mobile phones.

The channel is available on British Sky Broadcasting, a satellite TV system with 10 million customers, where it joins more than 700 other channels. PBS is also available via a cable system, Virgin Media, with four million customers.

You know, it's rather funny to differentiate PBS UK from News Corporation-owned media outlets by running it on a media outlet that is partially owned (with controlling interest!) by News Corporation.

dennysgod: I wish my PBS station showed reruns of Doctor Who, Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. All I get is Nova, Austin City Limits and Sesame Street.

That's all we get here. That and perpetual reruns of Are You Being Served and Keeping up Appearances.

Some shows that Brits would enjoy, I think:

Live From Lincoln Center
The French Chef with Julia Child
Scientific American Frontiers
Nature
Nova
Frontline
Various Ken Burns documentaries
Cosmos
Nova Science Now with Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Masters
The American Experience
Lidia's Italian Kitchen
Arthur
The 1800 House
Frontier House
Rick Steve's Europe
Great Performances
History Detectives
Independent Lens
MotorWeek
Manor House
Mister Roger's Neighborhood
Sesame Street
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Ghost Writer
Reading Rainbow
Simply Ming
Yan Can Cook
America's Test Kitchen
Cook's Country

There's others I've missed, I'm sure, but that's plenty right there.

Titanius Anglesmith: That's all we get here. That and perpetual reruns of Are You Being Served and Keeping up Appearances.

Are You Being Served is hilarious but Keeping up Appearances can go dive right the fark off a cliff.

/Had an aunt that acted like the woman on Keeping Up Appearances.
//Only difference is she had a southeast KY accent.

BroVinny: I wonder if it could be construed as an act of war to export Barney and Friends.

They sent us Teletubbies. It's the least we can do.