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Then the walls came tumbling down. Two of the culture networks, CBS Cable and The Entertainment Channel, called it quits within a year of start-up. PBS's venture never got off the ground. Bravo, a pay service offering cultural programs and art movies, is still in operation but has only 109,000 subscribers. For most of the nation's TV audience, just one channel remains to carry the frayed banner of culture on cable: the Arts & Entertainment Network...
Created in February 1984, when the three-year-old ARTS network (a co-venture of ABC and the Hearst Corp.) acquired the programming of the defunct Entertainment Channel, A&E is in the midst of a major push for viewers and visibility. During the first three months of this year, the network is introducing 45 new programs or series and has launched a multimillion-dollar national advertising campaign to promote them. More than 12 million cable homes now receive some or all of A&E's 20-hour-a-day schedule, usually as part of their basic cable service. Though...
...channel's BBC shows were worth importing. A&E's most highly touted mini-series of the winter is Freud, a six-part bio-drama about the father of modern psychoanalysis (played by David Suchet). But the promising subject has been turned into plodding and uninspired drama, all furrowed brows and discordant cellos. Another British multiparter, The Old Men at the Zoo, adapted from Angus Wilson's satirical novel about an impending nuclear disaster, is a musty spoof of British politics and manners whose wit has not survived the transatlantic crossing...
...that a network like ours has programming that speaks to an American audience in an American voice." A&E is looking to local communities and arts institutions for some of that programming. One current example is The Baltimore Funny Pages, a comedy series originally produced for a Baltimore cable channel...
Says Tribe, who has worked with several mental health agencies. "I felt very frustrated that I couldn't do more than give out a sandwich occasionally." "I thought I would create a mechanism to channel other people's altruism...