Quick Takes
‘Every place is not the same’
‘If I had to choose one genre to do for the rest of my life, I would do road shows,” says Pittsburgh ...PBS Ombudsman: Crossroads needs context
Responding to viewer criticism about the latest American at a Crossroads doc–Robert Kaplan’s “Inside America’s Empire”–PBS ombudsman Michael Gelter says the ...Comic strip responds to Ken Burns’ The War
In response to Ken Burns’ The War, creators of the comic strip Baldo will introduce a Latino WWII vet character on Sept. ...Rural pubTV stations get USDA digital grants
The USDA gave six rural public TV stations a total of $4.95 million to build out their digital infrastructure in advance of ...Yikes, a critic who is of two minds!
“As a reading lesson, Super Why! is brilliantly clever,” says a New York Times review today. “As a lesson in literary interpretation, it fails miserably,” writes ...For those who hate wordless humming
Tomorrow afternoon ATC will announce the winner of a contest to write lyrics for the show’s enduring theme. Nina Totenberg can be heard ...NPR talks with Made in L.A. filmmaker
On NPR’s Talk of the Nation yesterday, Neal Conan talked with filmmaker Almudena Carracedo about her film Made in L.A., which debuted ...LA Times on Burns’ The War: an epic poem
“[Ken] Burns sometimes gets dinged for being too heartland; a critic for this paper chided his ‘pure Hallmark’ moments. But the whole ...“Bluegrass makes hangovers go away!”
WAMU’s announcement that it will drop bluegrass music from its weekend schedule later this month and upgrade its HD Radio service prompted ...Made in L.A. another window into labor of undocumented immigrants
The film Made in L.A., which runs tonight on PBS as part of the P.O.V. series, is an “excellent documentary,” according to ...WordGirl is funny, Super Why! is “sugary-sweet”
The new PBS kids’ show WordGirl “doesn’t just teach, it also entertains with humorous situations that should appeal to children and their ...New York Times on new PBS series WordGirl
“WordGirl takes the [superhero] conceit back to an earlier era, with a sensibility that could only have been conceived by creators who ...Armed and virtuous
Jody Foster’s latest heroic movie role — in Neil Jordan’s thriller The Brave One — is a public radio personality who becomes a vigilante ...
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