December 2006 addendum to Current’s annual survey of national programs in preparation for public television

Winter/Spring 2007

Art to Heart /Early Childhood Creativity
Producing organization: KET, The Kentucky Network.  Distributor: NETA. Episodes:  8 x 30. Status: completed. Major funders: NEA, W. Paul and Lucille Caudill Little Arts Endowment. Executive producer: Nancy Carpenter. Series producer: Guy Mendes. Host: Ana Ortiz. Contact: Amanda Stroud, astroud ket.org, 859-258-7243. ¶Visits model programs and educators to show parents, teachers and caregivers how to nurture creativity in children from birth through age 8 and make the case that art is children’s first language and an essential ingredient in their development.

Fat: What No One Is Telling You
Producing organization: Twin Cities Public Television and WGBH. Distributor: PBS. Episodes: 1 x 90. Status: fundraising, production. Key personnel: Executive producer: Naomi Boak. Producer/director: Tom Spain. Contact: Naomi Boak, nboak tpt.org, 651-229-1125. ¶ Doc looks at the epidemic of obesity from the perspective of those battling it, plus solutions scientists and doctors see in the future. 

Winter/Spring 2008

Nate the Great
Producing organization: Moe Greene Entertainment and WNET. Distributor: PBS. Episodes: 40 x 30. Status: production. Key personnel: Executive producer for Moe Greene Entertainment: Kristin Laskas Martin. Executive producer, WNET: Sandra Sheppard. Contact:  Sandra Sheppard, sheppard thirteen.org, 212-560-2068. ¶ An animated daily strip for kids 5-8, based on a popular book series, Nate the Great uses critical thinking to solve science, math, social studies and language arts-related mysteries. Before airtime in the broadcast season, the series website will offer an original mystery and “Nate Notes” with detective tips, games and fun facts. Producers and publisher will establish Nate the Great Classroom Club to develop outreach materials.

Compiled by Theodore Fischer
Web page posted Dec. 13, 2006
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About the listings
All project listings below are based on producers’ responses to our survey this fall. Funders such as ITVS and the national minority consortia submitted information on behalf of some independent producers, as did some presenting stations. Thanks to all who responded to the survey.
Working titles are indicated by “w.t.” To save space, four of the largest producing stations — WGBH in Boston, WNET in New York, WETA in Washington, D.C., and Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland — are identified by call letters or initials. Please direct inquiries to the contact people listed with each title.

Abbreviations used in this list

APT: American Public Television, Boston;
ITVS: Independent Television Service, San Francisco;
NETA: National Educational Telecommunications Association, Columbia, S.C.;
NEA: National Endowment for the Arts;
NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities;
NSF: National Science Foundation.