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Posted Thursday 2/06/20 at 10:36PM EST
Billy Porter couldn't care less about critics upset over the Oscars dress he wore on Sesame Street
A state senator from Arkansas was among those criticizing the Pose star for wearing a dress and trying to “sexualize...
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Cooked: Survival By Zip Code Revisits an Epic Disaster We All Forgot About
Filmmaker Judith Helfand’s latest project for PBS, Cooked: Survival by Zip Code, starts with a piece of incredible hidden history,...
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Posted Saturday 2/01/20 at 2:55AM EST
Billy Porter is coming to Sesame Street
The Pose star will visit Elmo and friends wearing the Christian Siriano ensemble he wore to last year's Oscars.
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Posted Thursday 1/30/20 at 5:51PM EST
U.S. Post Office releases Gwen Ifill Forever stamp
The trailblazing journalist, host of PBS' Washington Week in Review and co-anchor of PBS NewsHour, who died of cancer at...
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Posted Wednesday 1/29/20 at 3:12AM EST
Henry Louis Gates Jr. jokes about doing a Watchmen-inspired episode of Finding Your Roots
Gates' PBS genealogy series had a big fan in Damon Lindelof, who offered him a cameo role that the PBS...
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Posted Tuesday 1/28/20 at 1:15PM EST
Veteran collapses on Antiques Roadshow upon learning his $345 Rolex watch is actually worth upwards of $700,000
Monday's episode of the PBS show showed an Air Force veteran learning that he was in possession of the Rolex...
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Posted Friday 1/24/20 at 2:46PM EST
PBS and BBC team to build a waterhole in Tanzania to capture animals drinking with intimate detail
For the three-part wildlife series Waterhole, PBS and BBC wil construct the world's first-ever water hole specially rigged with television...
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Posted Thursday 1/23/20 at 8:09PM EST
Watch PBS NewsHour's tribute to Jim Lehrer
Lehrer, the co-founder of NewsHour who was an anchor on the in-depth nightly news show for 36 years, died Thursday...
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Posted Thursday 1/23/20 at 1:37PM EST
Jim Lehrer, longtime PBS NewsHour anchor and co-founder, dies at 85
Lehrer, who died at his home in Washington, D.
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Posted Friday 1/10/20 at 9:38PM EST
American Experience George W. Bush documentary director says former Bush administration officials were "not there to spin"
Former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer and former Bush chief of staff Andrew Card joined director Barak Goodman...
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Posted Friday 1/10/20 at 9:38PM EST
PBS' Sanditon starts off great, but Jane Austen fans will find themselves taken aback by the finale choices
"The vast majority of Sanditon, a new Jane Austen adaptation debuting this Sunday on PBS’s Masterpiece, will fulfill everything you...
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Posted Friday 1/10/20 at 2:15PM EST
PBS orders Donkey Hodie, inspired by the Mister Rogers puppet
The original Donkey Hodie puppet appeared on 59 episodes of Mister Roger’s Neighborhood.
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Posted Tuesday 1/07/20 at 3:47AM EST
PBS' American Experience documentary on Joseph McCarthy draws eerie parallels to the Trump presidency
The two-hour film, premiering on some PBS stations on Monday, covers events that occurred more than six decades ago, yet...
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Posted Friday 1/03/20 at 9:13AM EST
PBS' external investigation reveals Tavis Smiley's alleged sexual misconduct went back decades
The March 2018 findings from an external hired by PBS were filed by Smiley's legal team as part of an...
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Posted Friday 12/20/19 at 2:17PM EST
About 6 million watched the sixth Democratic debate, the lowest viewership yet
The 6 million includes viewers watching on PBS and the simulcast on CNN and CNN en Español.