Lubbock History on TV

Seems Lubbock's Centennial Committee and News Channel 11, KCBD have a series running on local history.  That's the "Hub City" to the uninformed.

 

 

6/30/08 History Of Lubbock, Part 2 Lubbock's town planners, looking into the future, built wide, straight streets to accommodate the new automobiles of the 20th Century.

6/30/08 History Of Lubbock, Part 1 The history of this region can be traced back for hundreds of years when the first settlers came here for the climate and rich land. But the City of Lubbock's history started sometime later when two settlements joined forces in 1890.

 Part 3 at http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=8587425&nav=menu69_2_9

or see the movie

History of Lubbock, Part 3

Texas Awl Bidness on TV

Black Gold is Texas TV

Article by Tom Maurstad

extract:

"Black Gold chronicles the daily grind and explosive drama of oil-field drilling in West Texas. The debut had plenty of reality-TV traditions -- it sets up a drama-inducing narrative by focusing on three competing operations all drilling in hopes of tapping into the same reserve.

It introduces plenty of colorful characters. Each operation has its own team of players,starting with the driller who is like the quarterback and, of course, each driller represents a rival archetype."

Read more at

http://tvblog.guidelive.com/archives/2008/06/black-gold-is-texas-tv.html

Or see videos at

http://www.trutv.com/ Showing Wednesdays 10:00 pm

12 Miles of Bad Road - Almost TV

Christopher Kelly in "Frozen Assets" in Texas Monthy June 2008 reports on a tv series pilot "12 Miles of Bad Road" about a famiy of wealthy Texas real estate wheeler dealers.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-06-01/hollywoodtx.php

Allegedly contains embarraessing Dallas stereotypes!

Texas to Save Jericho

Way back before the writers' strike, the new TV show "Jericho" aired and found a modest cult following, but the network wonks leaned toward cancellation and the strike bit off a few heads. The series disappeared. The angry mob assailed the castle. Jericho has now returned. Jerich is set in modern Kansas, just after a series of mysterious nuclear blasts have devasted the country.

The show's first new episode opens with the country now divided into two countries, east and west, Kansas is in the west. It seems the western Allied States of America is strangely off-beat and oppressive.

A reference to made that actually Texas is split off again, and Texas may save the country. Now that a nice turn. Keep watching.

ADDENDUM May 2008
The few, last episodes were followed. Ultimately our Kansas patriots saw the light found their "Allied United States" government vastly corrupt and began their rebellion. As the hero was jetting to independent Texas, he was attacked by AUS jets at the Texas border, but sure enough a couple of Texas jets appeared and shot down the enemy, thus assuring that rebellious freedom would ring west of the Mississippi. So ended "Jericho" as a television series.


http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/