Showing 376 - 390 of 400 articles tagged "PBS"

• Posted Monday 11/06/17 at 10:48PM EST

  Historian Shelby Foote from PBS' The Civil War apparently held racist views of blacks

  The late historian, who has been in the news after apparently influencing Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly's views on...

• Posted Friday 11/03/17 at 2:43AM EDT

  PBS will celebrate New Year's Eve with a Leonard Bernstein tribute

  New Year’s Eve: Bernstein on Broadway will be shown on PBS stations around the country.

• Posted Wednesday 11/01/17 at 7:58PM EDT

  In defense of Ken Burns’ The Civil War

  It’s unfair to blame a 14-second Shelby Foote clip from Burns’ epic documentary for White House chief of staff John...

• Posted Wednesday 11/01/17 at 3:54AM EDT

  Did Ken Burns’ The Civil War teach John Kelly that the war was the result of “the lack of an ability to compromise”?

  As Jonathan Chait notes, the White House chief of staff’s controversial claims about the Civil War “are an almost verbatim...

• Posted Tuesday 10/31/17 at 6:30PM EDT

  Ken Burns responds after White House chief of staff said a "lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War”

  “Many factors contributed to the Civil War.

• Posted Tuesday 10/31/17 at 2:03PM EDT

  PBS will highlight immigrant cuisine around America in No Passport Required

  Red Rooster Harlem chef Marcus Samuelsson will host the six-episode food travel series.

• Posted Friday 10/27/17 at 10:04PM EDT

  In praise of Cookie Monster, “the literary Muppet”

  “Cookie’s idiosyncratic pronouns and truncated consonant clusters are a ruse,” says Tim Carmody.

• Posted Thursday 10/19/17 at 7:37PM EDT

  LeVar Burton settles lawsuit, allowing him to use his famous Reading Rainbow catchphrase

  PBS affiliate WNED, which owns the Reading Rainbow brand, sued Burton and his digital reading company for “theft and extortion”...

• Posted Tuesday 10/10/17 at 10:15PM EDT

  Sesame Street launches an initiative to help kids cope with traumatic experiences

  Sesame Street in Communities is an online resource for helping children get through very stressful childhood experiences.

• Posted Tuesday 10/10/17 at 5:55PM EDT

  Here’s your first look at Masterpiece’s Little Women

  BBC and PBS teamed up for a new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, from Call the Midwife creator...

• Posted Tuesday 10/03/17 at 11:32PM EDT

  Watch Larry David and Bernie Sanders find out they are related

  PBS’ Finding Your Roots has released a clip showing the revelation that the Brooklyn-born Curb Your Enthusiasm star and the...

• Posted Friday 9/29/17 at 11:05PM EDT

  How The Vietnam War took the overplayed music of the ‘60s and made it feel fresh again

  “On one hand, we wanted some of the most iconic music, and we felt we almost had to have it...

• Posted Tuesday 9/19/17 at 11:03PM EDT

  The Vietnam War’s biggest flaw is its “many sides” approach to history

  The flaw in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s documentary — and in Burns’ past work on The Civil War —...

• Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 10:40PM EDT

  Every minute of Ken Burns’ 18-hour The Vietnam War is required viewing

  “This is the real stuff,” says Hank Stuever, who urges viewers to “open both your heart and your mind” to...

• Posted Thursday 9/14/17 at 2:43PM EDT

  The Great British Bake Off star sparks outrage by hiding in a refrigerator

  Noel Fielding was called “irresponsible” by worried parents who feared children would imitate him.