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...when PBS aired the Forsyte Saga--a 26-part Victorian-Edwardian mini-series based on John Galsworthy's novels--it was revolutionary. Years before The Sopranos, it showed Americans that TV could tell stories as novels do. Its success led PBS to create Masterpiece Theatre--it was the soap that launched a thousand bustles. To say that remaking the show now is not quite so daring is kind. To be unkind--and honest--it only bolsters the criticism that PBS these days is redundant and irrelevant...
...think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measured in months, reconstitute chemical and biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their nuclear weaponization program," he told PBS's Newshour in August 1998, shortly after his expulsion. He went on to argue that the only effective way to ensure Iraqi compliance with inspections was to threaten military action...
Lowell will also show the two-hour PBS documentary “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero,” which is being rebroadcast nationally tomorrow night, in its Junior Common Room...
Crossley, a former ABC News producer, is most notably known for her work on the “Eyes on the Prize” documentary, a six part PBS mini-series produced by Blackside Productions that chronicles the battle for Civil Rights in the South during the 1960s. Since it first debuted in 1988, the documentary has been viewed by over 20 million people...
...roles. Asked if a woman dating multiple men will be as palatable to the public as a man in the same position, network president Susan Lyne replied that the series "will force all of us to look at those double standards." In that case, maybe it should be on PBS...