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...show's success points up a milestone for the home-video revolution: with VCRs now in 67% of American homes and camcorders in about 10%, broadcast TV is starting to tap home video for material. Two current series, PBS' Sneak Previews Goes Video and the syndicated Inside Video: This Week, provide weekly reviews of movies and other fare released on video. KOIN-TV in Portland, Ore., airs We're Makin' Movies, a weekly show featuring amateur videos sent in by local residents. A syndicated program called $1,000,000 Video Challenge, which will award cash prizes for the best videos...
...opened and failed before the 1986 layoffs, though Moore hints that they came partly as a response to GM's cuts. Says Flint Mayor Matthew S. Collier: "Anyone who knows Flint can't help realizing the film is fiction. If this is a documentary, I wonder about all those PBS shows on whales and dolphins...
...variety of entertainment fare, from the relatively mild pro-environment messages of Jacques Cousteau's specials to more overtly polemical TV movies like Incident at Dark River. "We never said we were going to be totally balanced," notes Turner. Still, when compared with timid network programming and a PBS schedule that has been hamstrung by conservative corporate underwriters, Turner's up-front approach is refreshing...
When we last left the civil rights movement, at the end of the 1987 PBS documentary series Eyes on the Prize, it had just survived a violent clash with state troopers outside Selma, Ala. The confrontation climaxed a remarkable decade of civil rights activity that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation. Eyes on the Prize II, an eight-week continuation of that story, plunges us into a much different world. Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and other firebrands have emerged to challenge the movement's old guard and question its tactics. If Eyes on the Prize recounted the inspiring...
Though Eyes on the Prize was one of the most acclaimed series in PBS history, producer Henry Hampton had difficulty lining up financial support for a sequel. Several corporations reportedly were uneasy about underwriting a series that would deal with more controversial material. Actually, Eyes II steers its way through the turbulent era with admirable calm and impartiality. The unfailingly judicious narration (spoken by Julian Bond) at times seems restrained to the point of timidity...