Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PBS, Wednesdays beginning March...
...eight years later with Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. A research team of university scholars is about to release the first part of a third look, conducted in the mid-'70s. Still another survey will be unveiled on TV this week, a six-part PBS series simply titled Middletown. And this time Muncie-not to mention PBS-may never be the same...
...simplistic, distorted and unfair to some of the people they depicted. Middletown is likely to become just as controversial. Indeed, Xerox, which provided $600,000 of the program's $3 million budget, has already disassociated itself, disturbed by the sometimes foul language. Larry Grossman, the president of PBS, has denounced one 4-min. 7-sec. scene in which a teen-age boy graphically recounts his sexual exploits as "tasteless, exploitative and devastating." PBS will provide its stations with two versions of the show, one omitting that scene...
Most of the footage wound up on the cutting-room floor, of course-in some episodes 80 times as much was shot as was used-but what remains is often extraordinarily revealing. Like the 1973 PBS series An American Family, about the William Louds of Santa Barbara, Calif., Middletown does away with any kind of narration that might distance the subject from the viewer, and the camera records such private and intimate moments that even wallpaper might blush...
...International Communcation Agency (ICA) initially aired the Poland show overseas on Jan. 31 in over 40 countries, to an estimated 180 million viewers. The ICA had to get special Congressional approval for the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) to air it in the United States...