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...PBS Ordered to pay $47 mil to one of the Monkees. Here we come superspeed pledge drive...
...University. Other highlights of the ball included the performance and dance seminar given by professional dancers Jonathon Elkins and Katusha Demidova, the former U.S. Pro-Latin Champions. The U.S. Professional Standard Champions and the U.S. Junior Amateur Latin champions also performed. Also, Aida Moreno, the executive Producer of a PBS show, "Championship Ballroom Dancing," was inducted into the Dance Hall of Fame for her work...
Beginning next week, which by chance kicks off sweeps month, the networks will run a record number of these so-called shockumentaries. It's not just Fox, which has ruled the genre, but also ABC, NBC, UPN and even PBS (Nova has a four-parter called Escape! Because Accidents Happen). Most of these shows (except the Nova series) come from four Los Angeles producers: Bruce Nash, Erik Nelson, Brad Lachman and Eric Schotz. They carry out the networks' belief that the only TV young men will watch is extremely violent events shown two or three times in slow motion. When...
While Nash has mastered the cinema verite of violence--kids being torn into by pit bulls, head-to-head collisions of tractor trailers, elephant-on-elephant violence--Nelson's company, Termite Art Productions, has focused on grossing people out (though it also makes programs for PBS). His Busted on the Job specials highlight food employees hocking loogies into tacos and an uber-Dilbertian secretary defecating on her boss's chair. Nelson's new Busted Everywhere for Fox is more of the same. He doesn't go along with Nash's excuses about storytelling or moralizing. "We thought it was funny...
Thank you for the kind mention of us as street performers in your piece on PBS's program about music along the Mississippi River [TELEVISION, Jan. 11]. However, we do not play just for "spare change," as your story stated. We want your money, honey! Throw us a dollar or throw us a five; help keep us alive! Or if you can afford plenty, give us a 20! We are winners of awards in New Orleans. Also, we play fairs and festivals all over the world. And here you can't even get coffee for spare change anymore. DAVID LEONARD...