Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour into A State Dinner for Queen Elizabeth II, one began to long for the mediating talents of a good film editor working up a show of highlights, which would have lasted about two minutes. To be sure, PBS was operating under restraints. It had been forbidden to show the guests gulping and gnawing, leaving it with more than an hour-long hole right in the middle of the program, which it chose to fill with innocuous studies of the British monarchy's past and future. At times, the severe White House restrictions on camera placement left viewers with...
...says Producer-Director Michael Roemer in summary of the stern message of Dying, his searing 97-minute television documentary made for Boston's WGBH, to be aired this Thursday on PBS channels across the country. It is an intimate portrait of how three cancer patients who know they are going to die contend with this reality to the very end. Dying is a camera probe into forbidden reaches of our fears...
Infinity Factory will soon have a larger audience. The U.S. Office of Education has already awarded the Educational Development Center another $2 million to produce 30 more shows. The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) plans to distribute Factory nationwide in the fall. Insists Davis Tracy, a PBS program coordinator: "This show is gonna click. I mean really click. There isn't anything else like it anywhere...
...owes a debt to Laugh-In and to Monty Python, last year's hit on PBS, for its free-associating mixture of inanity and insult. It owes another one, too: without Python's national success, it is doubtful whether Herb Schlosser, president of NBC, would have offered Dick Ebersol such a free hand when he told him last year to come up with a live show from Manhattan. Ebersol turned to Lorne Michaels, 31, a Canadian who was a writer and co-producer for Comedienne Lily Tomlin's award-winning specials. Michaels recalls: "I wanted a show...
...York City publishing firm, young Chase could not decide whether to be a writer, a pianist, a drummer or an actor. Says his father: "He was a quadruple threat." So Chevy did everything. In 1971 he wrote for and acted in The Great American Dream Machine, PBS's comedy series. Then he toured with several rock bands and spent a year writing for Mad magazine. In 1973 he combined all his talents, becoming music director, writer and actor on the National Lampoon Theater Company's off-Broadway revue Lemmings, which he helped create...