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GOURMET'S DIARY OF A FOODIE PBS, CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS Like a Cheesecake Factory�menu, this series strives to offer a bit of everything: it's a cooking show, a travelogue, a history and anthropology show. Each episode hopscotches to a new country, visiting restaurants and homes, chatting up average people and experts on food's role in the culture. A segment on international ingredients with Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl is a little elementary-- to viewers raised on the Food Network, oyster sauce is no longer exotic--but the show is a fast, info-packed study in how the world...
...Dark Angel (Fox, 9 p.m.) You could tune to ABC, NBC, CBS or PBS tonight and watch a reasoned exchange between Al Gore and George W. Bush. Or you could tune in to this sci-fi action thriller and watch the reasoned exchange between star Jessica Alba's foot and the asses of several thugs twice her size. As a bioengineered superbabe on the run from a military program in a dystopic year 2020 after a terrorist attack has wiped out America's computers and started a depression - whew! - Alba is to "Dark Angel" what Keanu Reeves...
...insouciance, attitude, and even playfulness-has had a bigger effect on the news media than any Bill O'Reilly rant. Fox taught TV news that voice, provocation and fun are not things to be afraid of. And for better or worse, probably every TV news program outside of PBS has been Foxified by now. The explosive graphics on your newscast: that's Fox. The "freeSpeech" opinion segments on the new CBS Evening News: that's Fox, too. Anderson Cooper yelling at a FEMA official or crusading in Africa: that's Fox. Keith Olbermann ranting at George W. Bush...
...video adaptation of this essay aired Thursday, August 3 on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS...
Gates learned that he had a fifth-great-grandfather who served in the Revolutionary War during the filming of “African American Lives,” a series he hosted on PBS this past spring which traced the genealogies of prominent African Americans...