Tuesday, Sep. 26, 2023

PBS was looking forward to a relatively free lane to offer fresh television to viewers downtrodden by the Hollywood strikes this fall, but that advantage may only last a couple of months now.

A tentative deal reached late Sunday in the crippling TV writers strike, with hopes that actors...

Friday, Sep. 22, 2023

While she delves into the life of a man whose work has been instrumental relative to landmark First Amendment legal decisions in her documentary Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely--which debuts this evening (9/22) as an American Masters presentation on PBS--producer-director Yael...

Tuesday, Mar. 21, 2023

There's a moment in the new PBS documentary about Dr. Anthony Fauci when a protester holds up a handmade sign reading, "Dr. Fauci, You Are Killing Us."

It says something about Fauci that it's not initially clear when that sign was waved in anger — in the 1980s as AIDS made its deadly rise...

Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022

America slammed the door in the face of Black progress time after time, and time after time African Americans responded by thriving in a society of their own making.

When Black doctors were excluded from the American Medical Association, they formed the National Medical Association in...

Saturday, Apr. 30, 2022

It took eight long years for Sarah Solemani to get a murky part of Britain's post-World War II history from the pages of a book to our TV screens.

She had been impressed by Jo Bloom's 2014 novel "Ridley Road" about a Jewish-led underground anti-fascist resistance movement in London in the...

Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2022

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has unveiled the 60 nominees selected to represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2021. The nominees were chosen by a unanimous vote of 19 jurors from over 1,200 entries from television, podcasts/...

Thursday, Sep. 9, 2021

Considering the number of movies, documentaries and other entertainment vehicles  made about Muhammad Ali, it would seem that — much like the former heavyweight champion at the end of his 1971 fight against Joe Frazier — there's not much left to offer that's fresh.

Will Smith played Ali....

Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021

Bill Feehan was so knowledgeable about the New York City Fire Department's operations and history, colleagues say, he would have been the one leading its recovery had he survived the attack on the World Trade Center.

Feehan, the department's first deputy commissioner, was the highest-...

Thursday, Mar. 25, 2021

The new PBS documentary on dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is called "Twyla Moves." In retrospect, that sounds a bit weak.

It really should be called "Twyla Moves And Won't Stop As Long As She Has a Detectable Pulse," a title that might perhaps begin to capture the fierceness with which...

Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020

Only one project lured two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson back to the screen after an absence of 25 years: "Elizabeth Is Missing." 

The film is a mystery but so much more — a powerful and moving look at dementia, a pressing emotional and financial issue for many nations with...

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