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Better yet, watch Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) face a similar problem in To Play the King, a wickedly entertaining BBC mini-series that has just debuted on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre for a four-week run. Urquhart, the Machiavellian party hack who schemed his way to the prime ministry in the 1990 mini-series House of Cards, is now ensconced in power but facing an unexpected challenge from the newly crowned King of England. The politically naive but idealistic monarch (modeled loosely on Prince Charles) has taken to delivering feisty, compassionate speeches about the poor and staging canny photo...
...everywhere next season. "To use a baseball metaphor ((as he does repeatedly)), I have a slugging percentage of about .600," he says. "For every 10 things I've brought to market, six of them will end up in homes." Some have unusual venues. He is developing two shows for PBS: a 13-week comedy series starring offbeat stage performer Steven Banks, and Under New Management, a Coronation Street-style serial with topical humor, set in a New Orleans restaurant-bar. For CBS he is producing Nashville X's and O's, a nighttime soap about the lives of ex-wives...
Wade in the Water is a welcome baptism of knowledge. In 26 hour-long segments that begin airing this month on most NPR stations, the program is as entertaining and informative as the best documentary series on PBS, a sort of Eyes on the Prize for the ears. Each episode examines, through music, a part of the history of blacks in America -- in all covering 200 years of spirituals, hymns and gospel songs...
...Harvard Foundation, created to foster better race relations on campus, is largely ignorant of Asian American needs. Last week, the Foundation invited Martin Yan, from the PBS television show Yan Can Cook, to speak at Yenching Auditorium...
...cooking demonstration last night by Martin Yan of the PBS cooking show, "Yan Can Cook," attracted an audience of about 75 people to the Yenching Auditorium...