Showing posts with label PBS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PBS. Show all posts
Saturday, September 13, 2025

Good to Brilliant: Sitcoms: TRYING TIMES (a sitcom anthology series, PBS, 1987-89)

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Trying Times (co-produced with CBC, which ran these as episodes of a previously-extant anthology series called Lies from Lotus Land ) 103: ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

1956/58...National Educational Television (NET) and NTA Film Network (NTA) begin promoting themselves as US television's "fourth network"s...

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As the faltering DuMont Network and the even less robust Paramount Television Network dwindled into nothing much in 1956, National Educati...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

First thoughts on AMERICAN MASTERS: 3308 "Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin" (PBS, debuting 2 August)

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A solid, if unsurprising, documentary on her life and career, as compacted into 52 minutes (cut down from the 65-minute theatrical cut se...
Friday, November 23, 2018

FFB: BETWEEN TIME AND TIMBUKTU or PROMETHEUS-5: A SPACE FANTASY by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., David Odell, Bob & Ray, et al. (Photographs by Jill Krementz and NET PLAYHOUSE cinematographers/videographers.) Delacorte Press 1972

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"Between Time and TImbuktu, or, Prometheus-5: A Space Fantasy" was an episode of NET Playhouse , which series had continued to ...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

two videos from US public broadcast: excerpt: "Rasa Dari Tari/The Soul of Dance: Contemporary Dance in Indonesia" (syndicated beginning in June by NETA) and the entirety of CITY NEWS, originally broadcast in 1984 as part of PBS's anthology series AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE

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   Rasa Dari Tari/The Soul of Dance: Contemporary Dance in Indonesia (excerpt) The longest excerpt, at the end, is of Rizki Suharlin Pu...
Monday, April 8, 2013

tv notes: REMEMBERING ROGER EBERT tomorrow night on World Channel (PBS-affiliated network); JAKE SHIMABUKURO: LIFE ON FOUR STRINGS May 10 on PBS

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from the World Channel today:  WTTW in Chicago was kind enough to offer WORLD a broadcast window for its locally-produced tribute to fil...
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