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Tom Hanks to play Mister Rogers in biopic film You Are My Friend
Diary of a Teenage Girl director Marielle Heller will helm the film on the iconic PBS personality, with a focus...
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Posted Sunday 1/28/18 at 3:52AM EST
Tavis Smiley to moderate an L.A. town hall on sexual harassment in the workplace -- despite his own sexual harassment scandal
Smiley is set to moderate the public town hall event titled “The Conversation: Women, Men and the Workplace" on Monday...
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Posted Tuesday 1/23/18 at 9:15PM EST
Barney the purple dinosaur's original actor now runs a Tantric sex business
David Joyner who played the Barney & Friends purple dinosaur role from 1991 to 2001, launched his Tantric sex massage...
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Posted Thursday 1/18/18 at 9:48PM EST
Sesame Street’s HBO evolution includes cutting down on pop-culture parodies
“Because fewer adults actually pay attention to Sesame Street these days, the series has turned down the dial on pop-culture...
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Posted Wednesday 1/17/18 at 12:03AM EST
Ruth Wilson will play her grandmother Masterpiece’s Mrs. Wilson
The Affair star will take on the title role in the three-part PBS drama about her grandmother, Alison Wilson, who...
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Posted Tuesday 1/16/18 at 6:10PM EST
PBS boss addresses the Charlie Rose and Tavis Smiley sexual harassment scandals
PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger explained at the TV press tour that “we” first “learned of the issue with...
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Posted Tuesday 1/16/18 at 6:10PM EST
PBS’ Native America will explore how ancient indigenous cultures are connected across North and South America
The four-part series, narrated by The Band’s Robbie Robertson, hopes to offer a “new perspective” on North and South America...
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PBS will delve into sexual harassment with a #MeToo series
Hosted by Zainab Salbi, founder of the humanitarian organization Women for Women International, each episode of #MeToo, Now What? will...
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Posted Tuesday 1/16/18 at 1:35PM EST
CBS This Morning lands Ann Curry’s first TV interview since the Matt Lauer sexual harassment scandal
The former Today co-anchor, who is promoting her new PBS docuseries We’ll Meet Again, will talk about the #MeToo movement...
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Posted Saturday 1/13/18 at 12:37AM EST
Why Victoria is preferable to The Crown
Netflix’s Queen Elizabeth II series has received more buzz and critical acclaim than the Masterpiece drama based on Queen Victoria,...
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Posted Tuesday 1/09/18 at 6:45PM EST
BBC and Masterpiece team for Les Miserables, starring Lily Collins, David Oyelowo and Dominic West
Collins will play Fantine in the new six-part production based on the classic novel, which starts filming next month.
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Posted Monday 1/08/18 at 5:52PM EST
Tavis Smiley announces a new inspirational TV series: The Upside with Tavis Smiley
One month after his PBS talk show was removed over his sexual harassment scandal, Smiley says he’s coming back with...
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Posted Thursday 12/21/17 at 2:06PM EST
Sesame Street awarded a $100 million grant to serve refugee children
The MacArthur Foundation grant is aimed at building an early-childhood education program for kids dealing with "toxic stress" in Jordan,...
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Posted Wednesday 12/20/17 at 10:03PM EST
Why City University of New York’s journalism school waited a month to revoke Charlie Rose's Lifetime Achievement Award
"We wanted to give it careful thought and not react in a knee-jerk way," says Dean Sarah Bartlett.
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Posted Tuesday 12/19/17 at 2:48PM EST
BBC’s Katty Kay will join Christiane Ampanpour in fillling the Charlie Rose timeslot
BBC News Washington correspondent Kay’s Beyond 100 Days, focusing on the Trump administration, will be paired with Amanpour’s CNN International...