I was flipping through channels this evening, thoroughly disgusted with the state of non-cable television, and was about to give up, when I remembered I hadn't checked the local PBS affiliate.
Paul jumped a couple inches as I immediately shouted "Holy shit, that's Jake von Slatt!"
A few minutes later, after a very nice piece on Steampunk culture, Jake's workshop, and how to do brass-etching, the show's bumper came on between segments. Paul jumped again as I shouted "Holy shit, Make has a TV show now?!"
Seriously, why didn't anyone think of this sooner? Make Magazine and PBS are totally made for each other. Let's hope they stay BFFs for a long time to come.
Thank you thank you for posting this! In my ADD-driven surf of the various links, I found me a modern book that describes the early experiments in electricity that I've been on about. And I can get it at my local library! Muhuhahahahaaaaaa!
Noooo! I checked our local PBS station line up and they showed one, ONE, episode of Make:tv with no further plans to show any more episodes. They showed episode 102. Of course Jake Van Slatt's is episode 103. One more reason to be more disgusted with Iowa the multi-cultural wasteland.
What a bummer! I probably shouldn't taunt you then and tell you that they were using Abney Park as the bed music.