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...fate of other cable newcomers has been much different. In April, Ted Turner launched Turner Classic Movies, which offers many vintage, long-unseen films from Turner's MGM and Warner Bros. archives. Cable systems serving only 250,000 homes were persuaded to sign up. Horizons Cable Network, a pbs-backed channel that plans to cover lectures, panel discussions and other educational and cultural events, had hoped to debut later this year, but it was forced to ! delay the launch after cable systems representing 6 million homes, citing rate restrictions, backed out of a commitment to carry it. Ovation, a proposed...
Foote is right. Disney's America will idealize and sentimentalize history the way Disney's movies have idealized and sentimentalized nature. So what? Bambi and Dumbo are delightful, enduring children's treasures. They are not meant to be PBS documentaries...
...debate in your home or office featuring Democratic pollster Peter Hart and his partner Geoffrey Garin battling it out with Norman Ornstein, analyst for the American Enterprise Institute, and Ben Wattenberg, author and host of the new PBS talk show Think Tank...
...Prime Suspect 3, a four-part British mini-series that begins Thursday on PBS' Mystery!, the murder scene is London's gay underground of "rent boys" (child prostitutes), their patrons and pimps. How can one approach this theme without being either sensational or homophobic? The strategy chosen by Lynda La Plante, who also wrote the first Prime Suspect and sketched the story for the second, is twofold: make most of the suspects sympathetic and most of the sleuths complete professionals...
According to America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference, an accusatory, tweaked-up documentary that aired on PBS last week, the watchful do-nothings included high officials of the U.S. government. The 90-minute program, part of the "American Experience" series, was based partly on The & Abandonment of the Jews (1984) by David S. Wyman, who appeared on camera as a commentator. The documentary echoes charges in Wyman's book that State Department bigots tried to suppress accounts of the genocide from gaining a wide audience and that they blocked Jewish refugees from entering the U.S. America and the Holocaust...