Mark Jeffries, June 29th 2015: > > The 72-year-old host and creator of public radio's "A Prairie Home > Companion" says that the new season starting in the fall will be a > transitional period as he turns the show over to bluegrass mandolinist > Chris Thile of Nickel Creek, who filled in twice last year--by then, the > show will lose most of its comedy segments and become primarily music, > which will be interesting to see how it plays out, considering that folk > music audiences are aging rapidly--will American Public Media be leaning on > Kellior's Prairie Home Productions to make the guest lists more adult album > alternative-friendly (like WFUV New York, KCRW LA, WXPN Philly, APM's the > Current in the Twin Cities, etc., none of which carry the show [although > the other two APM stations in the Twins do])?: > > > http://www.berkshireeagle.com/local/ci_28387988/garrison-keillor-sees-transition-out-prairie-home-companion > > It's not that APM already has an alternative out there, with "Wits," a > weekly mostly-improv comedy show that originates from St. Paul's Fitzgerald > Theater (same theater where "Prairie Home" originates), which books AAA > musical guests. It's on a respectable number of stations, but of the Big 3 > markets it's only on APM-managed KPCC in LA. >
Keillor's (Hollywood) finale is in the "can," ready for Saturday air... we'll still come across him in, f'rinstance, that annoying e-mail blast Mr Bezos sends out in behalf of the WaPo, where GK is a columnist... Variety <http://variety.com/2016/legit/news/garrison-keillor-says-goodbye-a-prairie-home-companion-hollywood-bowl-1201807962/> (link) B -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
