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The question the film “King Corn” wanted to answer was simple: Where does our food come from? The answer was complex and sprawling, but it was made easier to digest by the storytelling, which the Peabody judges said started off “like a post-grad goof.” College buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, the film...
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The PBS documentary film series “P.O.V.” is a Peabody Award winner for Kazuhiro Soda’s “Campaign,” which the awards board called a “revealing, sometimes painfully funny documentary” that “observed the ragged political campaign of a naif handpicked and backed by Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party...
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PBS’ “Depression: Out of the Shadows” began to take root when director Larkin McPhee read a New Yorker article on the topic by Andrew Solomon, which was later turned into the book “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression.” A production of Ms. McPhee’s company, Twin Cities Public Television and WGBH...
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“Ape Genius” started life at National Geographic Television, but when the organization struck its recent deal with PBS’ “Nova” to share editorial content for a series of specials, the program moved to PBS. A look at the latest research involving the creative capacity of great apes, the program was singled...
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Public television’s “Washington Week” has been bringing reporters from the nation’s capital together for conversation for 42 years. This year, the program, whose current full title is “Washington Week With Gwen Ifill and National Journal,” is being honored with its first Peabody Award. The judges called...
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Perhaps the most controversial award-winning health report honored by the Association of Health Care Journalists in 2009 is “Talking About the End,” produced by PBS’ “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,” which took third place in the television category. In “Talking About the End,” “NewsHour” health unit correspondent...
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The second annual Television Academy Honors will celebrate eight programs from 2008 that demonstrate “television with a conscience” on April 30 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The eight programs had a significant impact on viewers regarding issues such as racial integration, adoption, gun control, sexual...
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On Friday, Jan. 16, PBS will broadcast “Telling the Truth: The Best in Broadcast Journalism,” the annual look at the winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for excellence in the field. ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff will host this special “best of” compilation. “In the past we...
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The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards inform the industry and the public about television and radio journalism that has made an important contribution to communities and to the nation. Among the winners in the category of documentary film is PBS’ “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick...
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PBS’ weekly film series “Independent Lens” is no stranger to the duPont Awards. In fact, in 2006, “Seoul Train,” a film about human trafficking, was an award-winning entry from the series. “Independent Lens” will be honored again this week for “Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story,” a powerful portrait...
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Barack Obama has so many crises on his plate, the concerns and troubles of the TV industry seem about as relevant as the Wednesday night lineup on the Reelz Channel. Nonetheless, those of us who care about the state of the small screen can still hope that Mr. Obama’s commitment to change will be applied...
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Check out all of TVWeek's TCA coverage . The Feb. 17 transition to digital television created some drama during the Wednesday morning sessions of PBS’ portion of the Television Critics Tour. PBS Senior Vice President and Chief Television Programming Executive John Wilson assured the audience of television...
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Liberty Mutual and Subaru will continue as national sponsors of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” through the 2009 and 2010 seasons, WGBH Boston’s Sponsorship Group for Public Television announced. Sponsors will receive two on-air spots during each broadcast, direct-marketing opportunities at taping events, participation...
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“The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a “NewsHour” production unit devoted to global health issues. The three-year, $3.5 million grant went to public broadcaster WETA, the program’s co-producer. The grant will allow “NewsHour” correspondents...
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PBS is coming to a gaming platform near you under a deal announced today in which several of the network’s programs will be available for download on Microsoft’s Xbox 360. PBS said programs including “Wired Science,” “NOVA,” “Ken Burns’ Jazz,” “Ken Burns’ America” and “Scientific American Frontiers”...