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Subject: Re: update, was: no, "MeTV", we do NOT want "Meet the Press". Bring back the Flintstones
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In article <v2gue7$46s$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

> [update at end:  Summary: The Flintstones are back]
> 
> >[snip]
> 
> >>Your MeTV station must be one of those that pre-empts certain 
> >>programming for other stuff sometimes.
> 
> >>They get into the weeds in all of this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeTV
> 
> >fortunately, unlike our EVIL NBC BLUE NETWORK affiliate here which
> >only shows a half hour of World News Now, the MeTV carrier
> >broadcasts the full line without fail (modulo special stuff
> >like tornado warnings, etc.).
> 
> >So this, starting next week, is brand new.
> 
> >I'll be sending letters in the morning...
> 
> >thaNKS again
> 
> Well, I had Tweeted at them, and wrote a letter.
> 
> Don't know if it was me (although I'll take credit!)
> but I just looked at next Sunday's - 26-May-2024, and
> it still has the interloper instead of Fred and Barney,
> 
>      HOWEVER...
> 
> The schedule (on the xFinity page) for two weeks forward
> (Sunday, 02-June-2024) is back to three episodes of 
> The Flintstones.
> 
> *whew*
> 
> Now if we could only get them to restore the proper
> intro/outro for season one, as opposed to using the
> clips from the later seasons.  That's right, they're
> showing Bam Bam and Pebbles in Season One...
> 
> (Getting them to restore the five minutes they've
> clipped to shovel in more commercials is, of course,
> a near hopeless cause.  As is gettin them to air
> the episodes they've cancelled out 'cuz PC)

I wish I could find the original sheet music for THE FLINTSTONES, 
particularly the closing credit score. That's some good stuff.