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Posted Wednesday 4/07/21 at 11:14PM EDT
The #MeToo movement, wokeness and cancel culture influenced PBS' Hemingway in "obvious ways and not so obvious ways"
Lynn Novick and Ken Burns spent seven years working on their six-part docuseries.
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Posted Tuesday 4/06/21 at 2:48AM EDT
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's Hemingway documentary is excessive and discordant, but it manages to work
"Is 2021 the worst time imaginable for a six-hour documentary about Ernest Hemingway? Maybe," says Daniel Fienberg of Burns and...
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Posted Saturday 4/03/21 at 3:32AM EDT
Ken Burns says he'd never quit PBS for a big streaming deal
Burns tells Yahoo! Finance he is sticking with PBS because a major streaming service wouldn't allow him to have extended...
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Posted Saturday 4/03/21 at 3:32AM EDT
Former Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinson's American Masters documentary pulls back the curtain on his personal life, including alcoholism and drug use
At 93, Severinson is the last surviving star of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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Posted Wednesday 3/31/21 at 2:27PM EDT
More than 130 filmmakers sign an open letter denouncing PBS for its "over-reliance" on Ken Burns
"A simple accounting from kenburns.
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Doc Severinsen’s Triumphant Post-Carson Career Is the Inspiration We Need Now
PBS is generating a lot of to-do for Hemingway, the next big thing from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, arriving...
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Posted Monday 3/29/21 at 6:27PM EDT
PBS' Masterpiece renews Miss Scarlet and The Duke
The drama on Victorian London’s first-ever female detective will return for Season 2.
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Posted Saturday 3/27/21 at 4:54AM EDT
American Masters celebrates legendary American choreographer Twyla Tharp
The PBS documentary Twyla Moves follows Tharp during the early days of lockdown as she develops a new virtual work...
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Posted Tuesday 3/23/21 at 9:04PM EDT
Sesame Street introduces two Black muppets as the children's show tackles racial justice
Wesley Walker, age 5, and his father, Elijah, are part of the show's "Explaining Race" initiative to help parents talk...
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Posted Monday 3/22/21 at 10:21AM EDT
PBS is making its Asian Americans documentary available amid the rise of anti-Asian hate crime
The 2020 five-hour docuseries is now available to stream for free.
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Posted Tuesday 3/09/21 at 6:06PM EST
Roger Mudd dies: Emmy-winning veteran journalist and anchor on CBS News, NBC News, PBS and History Channel was 93
Mudd joined CBS News as a political correspondent in 1961 and was at the Ambassador Hotel when Robert F.
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Premiered 53 Years Ago Today
On February 19th 1968, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood debuted on the Eastern Educational Television Network, a regional concern that would later become...
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Posted Wednesday 2/17/21 at 4:30AM EST
Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s The Black Church is a celebratory tour of American history
Gates' four-hour PBS documentary The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, airing Tuesday and Wednesday, "may...
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Marian Anderson’s Story Is Made Whole in a Powerful PBS Film
As a history nerd I’m all for the underappreciated heroes of the past, but I simply had no idea about...
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Posted Thursday 2/11/21 at 3:20PM EST
PBS' Frontline acquires Leaving Neverland director's 9/11 documentary on the "Liberty City Seven"
Dan Reed's In the Shadow of 9/11, which was originally commissioned for Britain's Channel 4, tells the story of the...