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...PBS's Between the Lions warns viewers that it contains "extreme silliness that may not be appropriate for adult audiences." That's a little white lie on the part of this imaginative literacy series for kids ages 4 to 7 (weekdays; check local listings). In fact, well aware that parents are part of the kiddie TV audience whether they like it or not, PBS has created a welcome thing in the age of Teletubbies and Barney--a fun educational show for kids with enough sops for adults to avoid inspiring a wave of vasectomies and tubal ligations...
Timothy Ferris is the author of The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report and the PBS special Life Beyond Earth
Just last Friday, a group representing the Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People stormed into the Barker Center to protest Gates's PBS series, "Wonders of the African World," calling it Eurocentric...
...film business. Ireland's favorite son quickly retracted his statement--Neeson can be found on the silver screen in the dark comedy Gun Shy, opening this Friday--but he seems to have found an acting role that suits him more comfortably: narrator. Neeson lent his husky brogue to the pbs documentary The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization, which airs Feb. 9, and taped a special introduction to the Feb. 13 episode of Touched by an Angel, which focuses on the relations of Irish Catholic and Protestant teens. The capstone to this vocal odyssey comes in March, when Neeson's taped voice...
TECH TV If computers are the wave of the future, shouldn't every kid--rich or poor--be surfing the Web? In the two-hour PBS special Digital Divide: Technology and Our Future, airing this Friday at 9 p.m. E.T., pundits on all sides wrestle with the issue. Low-techs complain that we put too much emphasis on computers at the expense of basics like reading and writing; high-techs argue that technology can enhance kids' learning experience without breaking school budgets. The documentary is up to PBS's usual high standards, and it's narrated--get this--by rapper...