The new face of television.

• Author: Fleischer, Kenneth H.
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

Contra Peter Suderman ("The New Face of Television," November), modern TV didn't really begin in the 1980s or 1990s. It began way back in '77, when PBS aired the BBC series I, Claudius, complete with murders, political intrigue, insanity, torture, and an orgy. It was also PBS that aired the British program House of Cards, on which the new Netflix series was based. Had PBS, which libertarians love to disparage, not dared to show America what TV can be, the cable operators probably would have been a lot less willing to strike out as they...