Tag: Television programs
Liberty!
The makers of Liberty!, which airs Nov. 23-25 on PBS stations, are trying nothing less than to renovate the dusty reputation of the ...After all we’ve done, think how much more we can do
In his keynote address at the PBS Annual Meeting, June 22, 1997, David McCullough celebrated the value of history, the joy of ...Critics arise as PTV Weekend plan gets some ink
Lawrence Grossman’s PTV Weekend proposal for experimentation with a two-night commercial network for public TV stations — described for the first time ...‘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, ...Let’s not do it: PTV Weekend is a bad idea
A debate on the proposed PTV Weekend experiment for two-nights-a-week advertising on public TV Against the plan, below: Fred Esplin, general manager of ...Hull dived into the PBS archives, found himself among old friends
After a year of combing through PBS’s archives, Ron Hull has uncovered a treasure-trove of programs worth reviving one way ...How should public TV follow up the Forsyte Saga success?
Near the end of June 1970, Stanford Calderwood and his wife, Norma Jean, were comfortably settled in their regular rooms in London’s ...Terrier fans tell the rest of the story
You probably wouldn’t want one. Not if you knew what they’re like. Leave them alone and they’ll rip your couch, dig up ...KQED made its mark by making programs
San Francisco’s KQED-TV remains one of the most-watched public TV stations in the country, but, in the 1980s and ’90s it suffered under ...With funding as shaky as ever, the craft of historical documentaries hits new highs
Current: There was a long period when TV critics regularly wrung their hands over the death of the long-form documentary. Now PBS has ...KQED drops Mondavi project in underwriting controversy
KQED has dropped plans for a public TV documentary about pioneering Napa Valley winemaker Robert Mondavi after widespread newspaper reports ...Tragic legend returns to public TV, retold this time as an opera
A local tale from Fayette, Maine, that came to public TV seven years ago in an American Experience documentary will return next year as ...Fred Rogers and the significance of story
The late George Gerbner, a leading scholar of TV program content, wrote this article for the 40th anniversary of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, but it ...Revisiting Brideshead Revisited
You may have recently reacquainted yourself with this classic public TV mini-series. The American Program Service and 20 stations have brought it ...Duggan will look to nonprofits in search for top PBS program executive
PBS will look at theater, arts and nonprofit executives to fill its long-vacant position of chief program executive, President Ervin Duggan told ...
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