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American Short Story, PBS, beginning...
...Whenever PBS produces its own dramatic programs, it tries to be all things to all its constituencies. There is almost always a dash of intellectual pretension (to please the grant-bestowing foundations), a splash of uplift (to humor the corporate sponsors) and a rustle of period costumes (to attract the BBC fans). The result is often tiresome television, but occasionally there is a glorious exception. Such is the case with American Short Story. Though this returning series satisfies all the dreary institutional demands of PBS, it also provides remarkably sophisticated entertainment...
...PBS, Sundays, beginning Jan. 27.) Perhaps the hardest thing to capture on film is a mind at work, and scriptwriters usually resort to obvious devices: a composer tinkling tunes on the piano, a novelist tearing paper out of his typewriter or a scientist pouring foul-looking glop from one test tube into another. But revealing thought in action is exactly what the creators of this new BBC series have done, and the size of their achievement is indicated in the title. The mind they are portraying is that of Charles Darwin; the idea they are presenting is the evolution...
...PBS Darwin is a good start to the new year. Not the least of its virtues is that it gives viewers the innocent eyes of children - or explorers. It enables them to see the world as Darwin did, a place of delights and horrors, wonders and excitements. - Gerald Clarke
Moliére, PBS, five parts starting...