The uncertain futures of two public-TV series, one new, one old, provide the latest evidence that news and public affairs programs exist precariously within public broadcasting.
The staples will be there, but not much new is being added to public television's program menu this fall.
PBS PROGRAMS--After a lackluster fall, the Public Broadcasting Service launches its midterm
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survive the largely anti-choreographic approach that has come to be standard on the PBS "Dance in America" series over the last few years.
The Goetz Friedrich-directed, Karl Bohm-conducted "Elektra," visible tonight on PBS' "Great Performances" (8 p.m.
The new production of "Huckleberry Finn" that premieres on public television tonight was filmed on the Ohio River, not the monstrous Mississippi that Mark Twain wrote of so passionately.
The idea of public TV's experimental "Theme Night," its producer has explained, is to offer sort of an electronic Op Ed page, to air admittedly partisan films in which opposing sides on a major issue state their case as they see it.
Public television stations have agreed to spend $39.4 million to help produce 26 series, including four new programs.
George Balanchine's 1962 two-act ballet "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a strange collage of compressed, sometimes perfunctory narrative episodes and extended, often glorious pure-dance sequences.
If making it on television means being renewed for a second season, artists once considered to be in the avant-garde are about to enter the mainstream.
Two television networks and hundreds of communities nationwide are joining forces for an unprecedented 18-month attack on America's "hidden problem"--illiteracy.
As the controversial series "The Africans" nears midpoint, the battle between the National Endowment for the Humanities and public television escalates.
After five consecutive nights of "Space," the CBS miniseries based on James A.
The decline of PBS' "Dance in America" series continues with "Three By Three," an hour-long
It's coming, right on schedule. But what exactly is Halley's comet?
Francisco Ballet production of "Cinderella" on PBS (at 9 tonight on Channel 15; 5:45 p.m.
Most of us take this old planet of ours for granted.
When it comes to picking unusual musical collaborators, nobody can challenge Paul Winter.
WNET-TV, a primary producer of programming for public television, has issued a year-end report that rates the station's health as excellent and promises that "the best is yet to come."