Showing 121 - 135 of 393 articles tagged "PBS"

• Posted Tuesday 8/18/20 at 10:56AM EDT

  Call the Midwife to begin filming on a coronavirus-shortened Season 10

  The BBC announced that production on the period BBC/PBS drama has begun with a 2020 Christmas special before Season 10...

• Posted Monday 8/17/20 at 7:35PM EDT

  Judge orders Tavis Smiley to pay $2.6 million to PBS for having multiple affairs with subordinates

  The judge's order comes after a jury found in March that Smiley had breached a morals clause in his contract...

• Posted Tuesday 8/04/20 at 3:01AM EDT

  Dave Chappelle and George Carlin are the only comedians to have Emmy-nominated Mark Twain Prize ceremonies

  There have been 22 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremonies, but last week Chappelle's 2019 Kennedy Center honor became...

• Posted Saturday 8/01/20 at 3:20AM EDT

  Cookie Monster's Sesame Street food truck doesn't make economic sense

  Does the "Monster Foodies" food truck that Cookie Monster runs with new muppet Gonger actually teach kids about running a...

• Posted Tuesday 7/28/20 at 8:20PM EDT

  Alicia Keys to produce a PBS American Masters documentary on Black entertainers

  American Masters: How It Feels To Be Free will tell the story of six groundbreaking Black entertainers: Lena Horne, Abbey...

• Posted Tuesday 7/28/20 at 1:01PM EDT

  PBS is launching a PBS Documentaries channel on Amazon Prime Video

  The new channel will feature Ken Burns' documentaries, as well as American Experience, American Masters, Nature, Nova, POV, Independent Lens...

• Posted Monday 7/27/20 at 7:45AM EDT

  How John Lewis ended up guest-starring on Arthur

  The recently departed Civil Rights icon and longtime U.

• Posted Thursday 7/23/20 at 7:14PM EDT

  Death in Paradise becomes one of the first British dramas to resume filming with help of a COVID-19 supervisor

  The BBC and PBS co-production was able to begin filming this week on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe by...

• Posted Tuesday 7/21/20 at 7:04PM EDT

  Check out Hugh Laurie in Masterpiece's Roadkill

  Laurie stars in the four-part thriller as a self-made, forceful and charismatic politician, co-starring with Peaky Blinders actress Helen McCrory,...

• Posted Saturday 7/18/20 at 4:26AM EDT

  John Lewis dies: The Civil Rights Movement icon and Georgia congressman was 80

  Lewis, who died Friday night of pancreatic cancer, was the last surviving organizer of the March on Washington on Aug.

• Posted Friday 7/17/20 at 1:35PM EDT

  Grantchester renewed for Season 6

  The ITV and PBS British detective drama will return to Masterpiece for a sixth season, stars Robson Green and Tom...

• Posted Wednesday 7/15/20 at 9:17PM EDT

  The Magic School Bus book series author Joanna Cole dies at 75

  In 1986, Cole teamed with illustrator Bruce Degen on the book series following the antics of elementary school teacher Ms.

• Posted Wednesday 7/15/20 at 2:22PM EDT

  Beloved PBS series Wishbone to become a feature film

  The 1996-2001 live-action series that followed a daydreaming Jack Russell terrier is being adapted as a live-action film for Universal...

• Posted Monday 7/06/20 at 9:49PM EDT

  American Experience tells how women fought for the right to vote

  The two-part PBS documentary The Vote, airing Monday and Tuesday, tells the story of the journey of the 19th Amendment's...

• Posted Tuesday 6/30/20 at 9:53AM EDT

  Lester Crystal, who was responsible for making PBS' NewsHour one hour, dies at 85

  In 1983, former NBC News president Lester joined became executive producer of The MacNeil/Lehrer Report and expanded it into The...