Tag: Television programs
WGBH girds for uproar from creationists
An educational experience 4.6 billion years in the making,” says the clever tagline for WGBH’s big September series Evolution. The way the Boston ...Video center chief Fifer will lead ITVS
ITVS, the CPB-funded organization operating in the tricky middle-ground between independent filmmakers and public TV stations, has appointed a leader in the ...Philly gets its first airing of 1968 Wiseman film
If Frederick Wiseman’s High School works like a time machine, transporting viewers back to their own coming of age experiences in this quintessential American ...APT sees 70% carriage for animated tales of danger and heroism
Serialized adventures of an orphan mouse who dreams of becoming a heroic warrior come to the screen [in April 2001] through American ...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 ...Video description today: For their audience, words are worth a thousand pictures
A visually impaired person watching CBS’s Survivor cannot see the ousted member’s torch extinguished, doesn’t know what Bart writes on the blackboard in The Simpsons‘ ...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 ...Fans’ demand prompts revival of sci-fi classic
WNET, dastardly villain in a two-decade scheme to deprive science-fiction buffs of the coolest public TV program of all time, this ...Did WGBH do enough to guard veracity of its antiques hit?
WGBH acknowledged that one of the most compelling segments on Antiques Roadshow — the so-called "watermelon sword" appraisal — was faked without its knowledge. ...Idaho bans public TV programs that ‘support’ law-breaking
Idaho’s state legislature has imposed extraordinary restrictions on the state public TV network, in delayed reaction to its broadcast last September of ...Saudek’s Omnibus: ambitious forerunner of public TV
When producer Robert Saudek died in 1998, his New York Times obituary called him “the alchemist-in-chief of what is often called the golden age ...Even streamlined history of New York won’t fit in a week
Not every American will buy what Ric Burns and Lisa Ades are selling, but in the 10 hours airing this week on ...Seize the diversity market: a pragmatic view
With the search for Ervin Duggan’s successor now underway, public broadcasting has an opportunity to reflect on how the next PBS president ...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 ...
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