They can announce all the brilliant, deep and profound TV shows they want while we're out here at press tour. We already know what most impresses us.
"Car Talk" takes those wacky automotive mavens Ray and Tom Magliozzi from their laugh-out-loud National Public Radio call-in show into the brave new world of tube animation. We'll have to wait till summer 2008, but just knowing their cartoon selves are on the way gives us reason to smile.
The to-be-titled half-hour series -- they'll be taking suggestions from listeners -- follows the Click and Clack brothers into their fictional Car Talk Plaza garage, where they do their best to goof up and slack off amid a cast of quirky types including fellow mechanics, a receptionist and an eager-beaver radio producer.
Making the announcement, PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger told critics, " It will be unlike anything you've ever seen before on PBS." Guess so, unless "Masterpiece Theatre" also employs a Russian chauffeur named Pikop Andropoff.
