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PBS Docs Launching on Prime Video Channel in Canada
PBS Distribution has launched PBS Documentaries in Canada on Amazon’s Prime Video. The doc-focused subscription channel with around 1,000 films, including from Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to Nova, Frontline, American Masters, Nature, American Experience, Independent Lens and Pov, will be available for Canadians for CAN$5.99 (US$4.35) a month when they already have […]
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Shailene Woodley Isn’t Worried About the Planet. She’s Worried About You.
It seems odd to call someone who is just 32 years old a “longtime environmentalist.” And Shailene Woodley herself dismisses labels like “environmentalist” or “activist.” So … environmental enthusiast? Tree hugger? Whatever you call her, the Big Little Lies and Ferrari star has been actively championing environmental causes since she was a child actor appearing […]
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BBC and PBS Team Up for Return of Emmy-Winning ‘Walking With Dinosaurs’
BBC Studios and PBS are teaming up to bring back Walking With Dinosaurs to screens 25 years after the series first aired. In 1999, the BBC’s documentary-style miniseries became a cultural phenomenon thanks in part to its state-of-the-art CGI creatures. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, the show won two BAFTAs and three Emmys (Discovery Channel aired it in the […]
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Jac Venza, PBS Pioneer and ‘Great Performances’ Creator, Dies at 97
Jac Venza, the PBS producer who pioneered programs such as Great Performances and Live From Lincoln Center, has died. He was 97. Venza died Tuesday at his home in Lyme, Connecticut, his spouse, Daniel D. Routhier, told The New York Times. Venza began work designing sets at CBS in 1950 before going on to lead […]
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Bradley Cooper Producing PBS Documentary About Family Caregivers
Bradley Cooper is teaming up with PBS to produce a documentary about the millions of people who provide unpaid care to family members. The documentary, Caregiving, is in production and is set to air in 2025 on PBS stations. WETA, the public broadcasting station in Washington, is producing the film with Cooper’s Lea Pictures and […]
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‘Little Bird,’ Indigenous TV Drama, Leads Canadian Screen Awards With 19 Nominations
The Canadian indigenous TV drama Little Bird has grabbed a field-leading 19 nominations heading into the Canadian Screen Awards. The series, which airs on Crave in Canada and PBS stateside, follows Behzig Little Bird, who was stripped of her indigenous identity when adopted into a Jewish family at age 5. As an adult, she goes […]
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Berlin According to Canadian Documentary Producer Ed Barreveld
Ed Barreveld, an European Film Market (EFM) veteran, is returning to Berlin via his Storyline Entertainment banner, having sold its feature documentaries to CBC, PBS, Discovery, NatGeo, Sky UK, ZDF and ARTE, among others. With 35 years of experience in the doc space, Barreveld specializes in combining Canadian and international storytellers, financiers and distributors on […]
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‘Fire Through Dry Grass’ Team on Making a COVID Doc Inside a Nursing Home: “We Were Fighting for Our Lives”
The horrors and resilience of people during the biggest global pandemic since the height of HIV in the ’80s and ’90s has been captured again and again by documentaries over the last several years. Inside looks at the country’s emergency rooms as they raced to save lives have been cast against theaters trying to weather […]
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PBS SoCal Rebrands KCET Broadcast Channel as ‘PBS SoCal Plus’
KCET and local Southern California PBS stations are set to be consolidated into one name: PBS SoCal. Though the Los Angeles-based public broadcaster KCET will still exist, it will be referred to as “PBS SoCal Plus,” so that both PBS flagship broadcast stations will be under one unified brand starting Feb. 6. The broadcaster noted that KCET programming […]
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‘Wolf Hall’ Sequel With Damian Lewis, Mark Rylance Sets Production Start for PBS, BBC
PBS is making a return to Wolf Hall. The public broadcaster will air a sequel to its Emmy-nominated miniseries, with Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis reprising their roles as Thomas Cromwell and English King Henry VIII. The series, based on the final book in author Hilary Mantel‘s trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, is scheduled […]
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PBS’ ‘American Masters’ Launches Visibility, Inclusion and Accessibility Initiative
PBS’ acclaimed documentary series American Masters has launched a new inclusion effort aimed at supporting stories by, for and about disabled communities. The Visibility, Inclusion and Accessibility Initiative aims to expand American Masters‘ commitment to stories and creatives within the larger disability community, launching with a new series, Renegades, alongside a talent incubator and expanded accessibility […]
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‘The American Buffalo’ Review: Even Not-Peak Ken Burns Is Still Worth a Watch
Burns' new four-hour PBS doc studies the species' symbolism, its brutal near-extinction and the complicated and sometimes heroic struggle to bring the buffalo back.
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