D.O.A.

It's almost June, time for PBS to run its Masterpiece Mystery series. The network really should drop the "Masterpiece" from the title as this series is far from that. Last year they introduced Wallander, a series that will be repeated this year although the smell was overpowering. Two years ago they introduced Lewis, an offshoot of the Inpector Morse series. While the Morse series was topnotch, Lewis was not even of second banana status it was so bad.

This year PBS has issued a new series of "Foyle's War" which, until now, has been of the quality one had grown to respect and expect. The 2010 version of the program, however, falls into the same low quality category as Wallander and Lewis. The plots are far fetched and filled with irrelevancies to fill out the time. Michael Kitchen, who plays Foyle, seemed as bored with the show as I was.

Has a new generation taken over the series? Am I too old to appreciate the 21st century version of a 20th century classic?