Tag: Television programs
Appalachia: 3 video profiles in full relief
Thoughts of Appalachia may stir up visions of either hillbilly backwoods or quaint Edens, but both miss the complicated truth illuminated by ...As cume slips, duo aims to keep PBS ‘relevant’
For the past four years under PBS President Pat Mitchell, the network has had two chief program executives: at headquarters in Alexandria, ...Wiseman at work in Idaho state legislature
The Idaho Legislature is the subject of Frederick Wiseman’s next cinema verite documentary. Starting with his controversial film Titicut Follies in 1967, Wiseman ...Worlds away from Rukeyser’s Wall Street
Wall Street Week with Fortune, the PBS series that reinvented itself last year after a messy split with original host Louis Rukeyser, is setting ...Back to these old houses
“As educational as magnetic,” says Los Angeles Times TV critic Howard Rosenberg. “Intimate, eye-opening and completely fascinating,” raves Salon’s Joyce Millman. “Brilliantly disguised as ...In master control, Fred Rogers re-enters my life
Mister Rogers was one of the first programs that I can remember watching. I was, of course, part of the show’s target ...Meeting the HD demand: PBS matching rollout to buyers’ slow uptake
With its pockets emptier than usual and few viewers demanding high-definition pictures, PBS is moving to HD more cautiously than the commercial ...‘What we try to do . . . is say something new’
“The best of American television can be traced to this one man,” said NovaExecutive Producer Paula Apsell, referring to her boss and the ...Twin ITVS goals: capturing diversity on videotape, getting it seen
Last year was a good year for the Independent Television Service. ITVS had weathered its first 10 years as a funder and ...‘Our place is to offer an alternative for those who still want to learn’
We should not be surprised that most of television enters our people and our body politic, not as food for thought, but ...Convict free after Bikel’s latest doc
Frontline knows how to shake things up in North Carolina. Last week, less than a month after the series aired Ofra Bikel’s 90-minute ...One last visit with Lance Loud
Twenty-nine years after their pioneering observational doc series entranced PBS viewers, the filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond are bringing back the Loud ...Forsyte Saga remake ‘goes for the youthful passion’
... Now The Forsyte Saga is coming down the pike again, in a six-hour adaptation of the first two books in the ...Families try homesteading for spring Frontier House
A diverse group of Americans placed in a remote and inhospitable locale must overcome physical challenges and psychological stress for a chance ...The Roadshow discovers challenges of wild success
When Chubb’s Antiques Roadshow rolled into New York City last month, appraiser John Hays hit the jackpot a full day before the doors even ...
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