Rio Carnival is live on Fashion TV
This entry was posted on 2/18/2007 6:10 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
It's Sunday evening, and as I flipped around the FTA channels, I came across Fashion TV's live coverage of the Rio Carnival. It's jaw-dropping. FTV captures the stunning spectacle of floats as big as houses strolling down the street, (the screen shot at right is of one of the smaller floats), always accompanied by literally hundreds of dancers in colorful costumes. And then FTV switches to lingering close-ups of some of the lead dancers. That can be jaw-dropping too. It's like the Macy's parade for grown-ups.
I had heard that FTV (which is on G25) was going to cover Rio, but I thought that just meant more of those runway visits where the models walk funny and wear clothes that make them look like they lost a bet. But this is great! If you missed the live coverage, they'll be running "best of" highlights late at night for the next few days. You can find FTV's program grids here.
UPDATE: At 9 pm Eastern, the picture went scrambled here. The audio's still on, but that's no fun. We'll see when it goes in the clear again.
2nd UPDATE: And at 10 pm Eastern, it's back. As with so many things in FTA, yaneverknow. Enjoy it while (or if) you can.
