Okay, we failed. We’ve called KETC, the public TV station in the St. Louis area, probably a dozen or more times in the last few weeks since the Cinematic Titanic people said that the channel was going to show “Doomsday Machine,” as well as a pledge segment featuring Joel and Frank. We kept getting told “soon, soon, we’ll let you know when we know for sure.” They never got back to us. We checked the schedule on their Web site. Nothing.

Well, today, we finally got through to the lady who actually does the scheduling of the pledge content and, well, everything we were told up to this point was apparently wrong. Apparently it’s been on “a few times” already. (To be fair, some folks in the comment threads said they’d heard that it was on, but that was directly contradicting what people at the station were telling us. The moral here: ALWAYS believe ANYTHING you read in one of our comment threads!) :)

And we were told today that it won’t be shown again. Public television stations everywhere are struggling, and these pledge events need to maximize donations. While the lady we talked to called it “a wonderful, hilarious show,” the pledge response during the previous showings was not great.
So, we failed in our attempts to alert you when this was going to be on. We tried. Sorry.

That said, I promised I would pass along THIS LINK, where you can make a pledge to KETC and receive a DVD or ticket(s) to the CT show in November as a premium (depending on how much you pledge). Respond as you see fit.