Saints are not pleased with a new documentary about the Mormon Church and its missionary program, which is scheduled to be broadcast on PBS tonight.
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One-and-a-half years after airing its award-winning 13-part series, "Vietnam: A Television History," the Public Broadcasting Service is taking a long, hard look at that encyclopedic opus.
A new documentary that attacks the motives and conclusions of the producers of an award-winning historical series on Vietnam was branded Friday as "a piece of vicious, intellectual vandalism" by an executive connected with the Public Broadcasting Service series.
When KCET paid off its bank debt last June, the public-TV station officially closed the book on the economic crisis that had crippled it in 1982, and from which it had been recovering ever since.
The satellite dishes on top of a handful of businesses in San Diego aren't there to intercept television signals from HBO or the Playboy Channel.
The announcement this week of a new four-part public television series focusing on the U.S.
The chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities has attacked the upcoming public television series "The Africans" as an "anti-Western diatribe," "narrow and politically tendentious," and demanded that the endowment's name be removed from the list of the series' major supporters.
So much for a left-wing bias in public TV.
New York's WNET-TV has entered its 25th anniversary year with the knowledge that the man who has led the country's largest public-television station for more than half its existence will be leaving.
A sneak preview of the 1986-87 Public Broadcasting Service television season suggests few surprises for viewers of the non-commercial TV network.
Progress always comes at a price.
Program and institutional milestones under John Jay Iselin's term as president of New York's WNET: 1973 Coverage of the Watergate hearings produces 25,000 public contributions, and station membership climbs to 135,000, up from its 1971 level of 50,000. 1974 WNET launches $10-million campaign to establish a broadcast center.
Famed film director Vincente Minnelli, who died July 25, will be the subject of a public TV program that his daughter, Liza Minnelli, will host.
When Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's new production of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" was unveiled at the Metropolitan Opera last December, one critic labeled it "overbearing," citing the massiveness of the sets and the size of the physical production as anathema to the composer's human scale and musical characterizations.
"M" is the Magic letter on PBS this week.
For Jimmy Carter, the gleaming jet was "a working plane."
In conjunction with the observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'
This is absurd. PBS presented a 13-part documentary titled "Vietnam: A Television History" in 1983.