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Cunningham, who appeared in "Gate of Heavenly Peace," a PBS documentary on Tiananmen Square, and who was present during the student protests, was first ignored by Vogel, who instead pointed to Bogert...
...achievement of Ken Burns' that his latest documentary for PBS helps rescue two heroic figures from the limbo of sixth-grade history. (Undaunted Courage, the recent bestseller by Stephen Ambrose, had already begun their rehabilitation, and Ambrose appears in the film.) Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, which will be shown in two-hour segments on Nov. 4 and 5, smoothly relates the story of the first expedition to cross the West and reach the Pacific Ocean. The familiar Burns techniques are here--actors reading letters, a cast of commentators, panning shots of historical images--but they...
...taped version of Saturday night's show will be shown on PBS this spring...
Nobody, that is, except thousands of waltz-happy PBS viewers. Rieu's concert videos, in which he and his 26-piece Johann Strauss Orchestra are seen playing for delirious throngs of European fans, have become a staple of public-TV pledge-drive programming. Last year The Vienna I Love came in right behind Riverdance in viewer popularity. The telecasts not only bring in money for local PBS affiliates, they also promote Rieu's CDs. When he visited the U.S. in August to work the phones at stations across the country, his on-camera appearances helped lift Vienna into Billboard...
Gates, who also is DuBois professor of humanities, has already left campus and will be working on the film project throughout the fall. After returning to teach in the spring, Gates will revisit the project and complete the series over the summer. It will be aired by PBS...