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  Posted Monday 11/20/17 at 5:41PM EST

  Charlie Rose, accused by eight women of sexual harassment, says "I deeply apologize"

  UPDATE: (6:31PM ET) CBS, PBS and Bloomberg TV have suspended Rose.

• Posted Sunday 11/19/17 at 8:34PM EST

  PBS cuts Al Franken from David Letterman’s Mark Twain Prize tribute following groping allegation

  "PBS will air an updated David Letterman: The Mark Twain Prize on Monday," PBS said in a statement.

• Posted Saturday 11/18/17 at 12:32AM EST

  Downton Abbey cast members really hope to make a movie

  Michelle Dockery hasn’t seen a script, but she would like to return to Downton on the big screen.

• Posted Wednesday 11/15/17 at 1:33PM EST

  Deadpool 2 teaser spoofs Bob Ross

  The iconic late PBS painting teacher/Internet sensation inspired the Getting Wet on Wet viral video.

• Posted Tuesday 11/14/17 at 2:27PM EST

  Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War averaged 6.7 million viewers over its 10 nights

  This makes it the second highest-rated film that collaborators Burns and Lynn Novick have made in the past two decades,...

• 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...