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...hugely successful mini-series The Civil War. But this season viewers are getting a chance to see the full breadth of his talent. His first new work since The Civil War debuted in September 1990, Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, will be telecast on PBS this Wednesday. On the same night the public network will rerun his Oscar-nominated 1981 film, Brooklyn Bridge. Two more of Burns' films will be shown in July, and his entire oeuvre has been released on videocassette by Direct Cinema...
...Venom against challengers from health clubs everywhere. In Warriors on Wheels, players in souped-up vehicles will compete in events like Road Kill (shooting at passing targets) and Flights of Destruction (crashing their wheels). Slime Bomb we don't want to know about. Don't look for them on PBS...
...1970s, partly because of Charren's lobbying, the networks added a host of informational shows for children, from ABC's Afterschool Specials to CBS's newsmagazine for kids, 30 Minutes. During the Reagan years, however, government regulation eased, and most of those shows were canceled or scaled back. Though PBS and cable have added greatly to the diversity of programming for children, network and syndicated fare, which still accounts for the bulk of kids' TV viewing, is largely a ghetto of interchangeable cartoons...
...hottest and most savory TV cooking show is produced by San Francisco's California Culinary Academy and KQED. The series, which has been shown on PBS channels, features no-name, no-frills chefs who skip yuks and patter in favor of precise instructions on how to concoct their light, low-fat, au courant recipes. In just four months, a cookbook featuring dishes from the series sold more than 90,000 copies...
...hottest and most savory TV cooking show is produced by San Francisco's California Culinary Academy and KQED. The series, which has been shown on PBS channels, features no-name, no-frills chefs who skip yuks and patter in favor of precise instructions on how to concoct their light, low-fat, au courant recipes. In just four months, a cookbook featuring dishes from the series sold more than 90,000 copies...