Word: pbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SATURDAY: Film Odyssey. PBS's acclaimed film series returns with 12 repeats from last year, starting with Francois Truffaut's "Jules...
Most venturesome single show: VD BLUES (PBS...
International Performance. The acclaimed PBS series presents Ravel's opera ballet "L'Enfant et les Sortileges." CH. 2, 9 p.m. Color...
...National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT), the Public Broadcasting System's answer to the network coverage, things were a bit more sanguine. No grumble, no pique. For one thing, the New York Times sometimes acts as PBS's fan club ("Surprisingly more effective than the far more elaborate and strained productions"). For another, PBS planned to try exactly what Shannon suggested. It set out to cover the convention's official proceedings only. PBS's two-convention budget was $290,000; the commercial networks', about $20 million. Rather than compete, PBS was manifestly trying...
...dispelled much of that reputation with her hearty clowning in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment (TIME, Feb. 28). Last week, with her appearance in the first of two 30-minute TV shows called Who's Afraid of Opera? (PBS), her humanization seemed complete. Singing, lecturing, bantering with a trio of puppets, she was revealed as a thoroughly warm and winning woman...