Author: Barry Garron
With on-demand streaming, PBS will enable premiere-week bingeing on Burns’s Roosevelts
In a session with TV critics, PBS's Kerger said the streaming experiment will "accommodate a wide range of viewing habits."PBS’s live-action Odd Squad aims to ‘make math relevant’ for kids
PBS Kids will expand the footprint of its math-focused programs with Odd Squad, a live-action TV series for school-aged children. The new show, which ...With return to KCET, SoCal Connected adds local color amid hard news
Los Angeles public TV station KCET is bringing back weekly series SoCal Connected after a yearlong hiatus, this time as a mix of hard news ...When developing films, Ken Burns selects topics that make “light bulbs go off”
Ken Burns decides on films through a deliberative process, involving both his creative team and accommodating PBS’s desire for multipart series that ...With Masterpiece sponsorships sold out, PBS adds British sitcom
PBS had lots to crow about during the recent Television Critics Association Press Tour, combined with just enough controversy to keep reporters ...Portrait of a ‘Kind Hearted Woman’ as she finds her voice
Kind-Hearted Woman, David Sutherland's latest documentary series for Frontline is a five-hour story of abuse and triumph for a Native American woman. His meticulous techniques ...Hinojosa explores civic life in town where multiculturalism is the norm
America By The Numbers, a PBS election special produced by Maria Hinojosa, looks at the demographic shifts found in U.S. Census data, focusing on ...Sports: a real community that some stations join
There’s a new game in town — relatively new to public television, anyway. Blessed with digital multicast channels and eager to attract ...Meet the cub of the tiger of the house that Fred built
It hasn’t been a truly beautiful day in the neighborhood for more than 10 years. Not since Fred Rogers, star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood ...
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