Tag: PBS
Newtown followups, unique documentary on Stephen Hawking coming from PBS
PBS unveiled upcoming feature programming today at the annual Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif. Highlights include a week ...2013 Golden Globes: Maggie Smith wins PBS’s only statuette
PBS was nominated in four categories at the 70th Golden Globe Awards Jan. 13, but only Dame Maggie Smith of Downton Abbey earned a win ...WGBY interviews real-life Downton Abbey Countess
Three nights after 7.9 million people tuned into the third-season premiere of PBS’s Downton Abbey, WGBY in Springfield, Mass., will broadcast an interview tonight with Lady ...PBS inks deals for on-demand access to local station content
PBS unveiled deals to distribute public TV programs on two additional on-demand video streaming platforms — Roku and Xbox Live. The contracts, unveiled last ...Kickstarter users have given more than $42M to documentaries
Crowdfunding website Kickstarter announced Thursday that independent film projects on its site had passed the $100 million mark in pledges since its ...Charlie Rose producers will pay up to $250K to settle intern lawsuit
Producers of the PBS program Charlie Rose have agreed to pay up to $250,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a ...PBS, WNET to offer specials focusing on Newtown tragedy
With short turnaround, PBS and New York's WNET will offer two programs in the next two days focusing on the aftermath of ...Burns family takes on controversial case, and city of New York, in critically acclaimed documentary
The Central Park Five, written and directed by Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband, David McMahon, is not one of his ...Full speed ahead for Public Media Platform
After two-plus years of planning and prototyping a shared hub providing easy access to digital content from across public media, partners in ...In reshuffle of PBS executive ranks, Hoppe ascends to chief programmer
PBS has restructured its senior management, effective immediately, elevating programmer/producer Beth Hoppe to chief programming executive and general manager, according to a ...The Dust Bowl to explore humans’ role in decimating prairie
Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl has a clear message: What happened before can happen again.Crowd rallies to save pubcasting funding
Some 1,000 marchers gathered on Nov. 3 on Capitol Hill to celebrate the power of public television.Ken Burns, defending PBS in USA Today, pits Reagan’s words against Romney’s
PBS documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose extensive credits include The Civil War, Baseball and the upcoming The Dust Bowl, authored an editorial in Tuesday’s USA Today in which he ...‘Collective of stories’ of women’s movement
Filmmaker Dyllan McGee’s documentary Makers: Women Who Make America features interviews with 70 accomplished women.POV captures five of PBS’s nine news and documentary Emmys
PBS topped all the other broadcast networks, as runners-up ABC and CBS each won seven. POV’s “Last Train Home,” a film about Chinese ...
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