PBS Is Dead: A Book About Public TV is a 2021 non-fiction book written by Felix and Logan Cortez. It is the brothers' their second book about television (after We Miss Saturday Morning Cartoons) and their sixth book overall.
Published by Aquatus through its Aquatus Real Books imprint, PBS Is Dead was released in bookstores and online on December 23, 2021. The book received generally positive reception from the few critics that reviewed.
Content[]
The book compiles fifteen opinionated essays that the brothers have written about PBS and its programming, along with an intro written by Felix and an outro written by Logan. The books' seventeen total sections are as follows:
- "Foreword by Felix™"
- "We Love Antiques Roadshow"
- "Arthur Is Fun to Watch"
- "Antiques Roadshow Is Very Interesting"
- "Some Stuff About Masterpiece"
- "What We Think About Mole Miner"
- "Why Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Rocks"
- "Who the Hell Made 2019 Clifford?"
- "Sesame Street Is Iconic... and Deservedly So"
- "That time The Electric Company Was Back... or Was It?
- "Unsorted Quotes About Individual Stations"
- "Frontline and the Pandemic"
- "The Horrors of On-Air Pledge Drives"
- "Rick Steves' Europe Is Amazing"
- "Caillou Is Just Stupid"
- "Everything We Know We Learned from NOVΛ"
- "In Loving Memory of WUSF-TV"
- "An Outro by Logan"