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Undoubtedly James Burke is the reason I give a shit about history at all today (without which one cannot really have a meaningful grasp on the current world or its inhabitants, IMO). I was lucky enough to be exposed to these at a young age.

I have a directory on my file server with local copies of everything he ever released.

If you’ve never watched this or The Day The Universe Changed, please do. (I say this as someone who hates TV.)

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For those who are interested in The Day the Universe Changed, you can find copies of the episodes at the internet archive or on Dailymotion. It really is well worth watching.

What do you mean by TV in this context?

Edit: oops, hit reply by mistake.

I cannot stand having my television viewing experience interrupted by irrelevant advertising, and because of this I do not have anything in my house that connects to the antenna on the roof the previous occupant(s) of this dwelling installed.

Television shows themselves, or whether they’re called? Series? Damn there are some good ones!

The first time I saw Connections it was broadcast by the local PBS station. No commercials.

> Television shows themselves, or whether they’re called? Series? Damn there are some good ones!

I find the vast majority of content produced for TV, even without ads, even so-called "good" entertainment/series, to be unimportant.

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