They keep asking for it

For a show that's not even seen in most of the country, Let's Ask America gets a lot of notice on the Net.

Hollywood Junket reprints a nice long press release about today's special with TV weather folks. They can't resist tipping one of the survey questions: "What did people in Seattle say is harder to avoid? A – Coffee Shops, or B – Rainy Days?"

I'm a baseball fan, and most people in Seattle seem to avoid Safeco Park lately, due to the sad Mariners. Anyway, Let's Ask America has earned a second season and gets decent if not super numbers. There are some rumors about syndicating the show nationwide, beyond its current outposts on the Scripps stations.

The show is a friendly, rumpled survey-fest, and Kevin Pereira hosts in a friendly, rumpled way. At first intended as a cheap substitute for Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, Let's Ask America looks like it costs $4.95 per episode. Which is always nice in the 500-channel universe of smaller audiences.