There is a golf channel. A whole channel devoted to golf.

We have "enhanced" basic cable. 74 channels. And frequently there's not a damned thing worth watching. We usually watch shows on our PBS affiliates (two of them in our area) fairly often, but lately they've been running so many pledge breaks they're getting as bad as the commercial channels. You follow a show, drama or comedy series, for a few weeks and *BOOM* a pledge break that runs for a couple of weeks, and when they get back to their regular programming, there's a whole different line-up and the show you were watching has disappeared. Sometimes they'll show something pretty interesting during a pledge break, but they keep repeating them. Victor Borge's funnier than hell, but we've already seen the program four times, and Andre Rieu (the Lawrence Welk of the violin)? Forget it!

Lately we've been trying to follow "The Inspector Linley Mysteries" (when they take a break from the pledge breaks). In addition to the mysteries themselves, there is the continuing plot thread:   sooner or later, Thomas Linley is going to wake up to the fact that Helen is a congenital whiner and general pain in the ass and that (to hell with class differnces) his partner, DC Barbara Havers, is rock-solid and dependable.

A friend introduced us to NetFlix with an introductory subscription. We've been watching a lot of great movies lately. Thanks, Will!

Don Firth