Author: Karen Everhart
PBS version of ‘reality TV’ distills drama from real life
As provocatively staged “reality TV” series explode on the commercial networks, PBS is expanding its own slate of what it calls “observational ...Better Saturday competition seen for the kids audience
In a bid to expand its children’s franchise into an increasingly competitive daypart, PBS on Sept. 30 will launch Bookworm Bunch, a block of ...PBS President Pat Mitchell: ‘I think I’ll be learning every day of the year’
Since she was hired as PBS president early in February [2000], Pat Mitchell has met with 60 or 70 of public TV’s ...For the first time, a producer leads PBS
PBS’s new president is Pat Mitchell, departing head of CNN Productions and Time Inc. Television, whose appointment was ratified by the PBS ...Nonprofits courting DBS for set-aside channels
A ground-floor chance to secure channel space on direct broadcast satellites is opening up for noncommercial organizations that have the wherewithal to ...Is Tinky a gay role model for boys, or a purple toddler in full play?
International stardom has not been easy for Tinky Winky, the Teletubby recently “outed” by the Rev. Jerry Falwell as a gay role-model ...For subjects, documentary is “strong form of family therapy”
Various people tried to prepare Juanita Buschkoetter for the public reaction to The Farmer’s Wife, filmmaker David Sutherland’s cinema verite depiction of the real-life ...Henry Hampton: ‘He endured because his vision was so important’
Henry Hampton, the visionary filmmaker who documented the history of the civil rights movement with the landmark PBS series Eyes on the Prize, died ...Edward James Olmos will head interim Latino TV grantmaking organization
Actor Edward James Olmos is heading a new interim organization that will spend CPB programming funds on public TV projects by and ...‘Frontline’s first happy ending, ever’
At first glance, the girding storyline is whether Darrel and Juanita Buschkoetter, a farming couple raising three young daughters in Lawrence, Neb., ...CTW finds its cable outlet: a venture with Nickelodeon
In a partnership that aims to position educational children’s programs at the forefront of the digital cable movement, Viacom’s Nickelodeon cable network ...Eh-oh!
Over the hills and far away, Teletubbies come to play. In Teletubbyland, a lush green landscape of undulating hills spotted with clumps of bright ...Teletubbies in Britain: craze, controversy and consumer frenzy
Teletubbies haven’t officially landed in the U.S. public TV schedule yet, but they’ve already roused controversy in Britain and landed a great big ...‘Something was very wrong’
Four days before the May 27 airing of “Innocence Lost: The Plea,” Frontline‘s third documentary on the Little Rascals child-abuse case in Edenton, ...‘The question of length is really settled’
A movement among big-market stations to accept 30-second underwriting spots is turning up the heat on PBS to resolve longstanding discrepancies between ...
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