Decent television

Now that I have cable, I've been watching TV a little bit more. There's a lot of crap on, but occassionally there's something cool enough that warrants mentioning - like History Detectives, which I saw last night one of PBS's cable stations (217 on Comcast). In the episode I saw last night, the detectives determined:

• that a Gilbert Stuart portrait drawing of George Washington was a forgery, and reunited the abandoned son of the forger with said forgery, along with the collected files of the forger's criminal history
• that a cannon being kept at the Charlestown Navy Yard was stolen from the British by the American rebels, an action which brought the British to Concord to retrieve it, which, of course led to the beginning of the Revolutionary War
• that a letter found under a bunch of old books in a box in Oregon was written by a Revolutionary War privateer while he was a POW at the Old Mill Prison in England

The lengths they went to to figure out this things were pretty extensive, and the hosts of the show are cool, except for one of them, Elyse Luray, who's either playing dumb or really is dumb, it's hard to tell. But aside from that, this is a really cool investigative show that often takes you down surprising historical roads. And it's theme song is "Watching the Detectives," not very surprising, but a fun tune, nonetheless.