Continuing the trend toward great summer programming, PBS has unveiled its summer 2013 schedule – replete with mysteries (a new season of The Inspector Lewis Mysteries, the premiere season of the Inspector Morse prequel series, Endeavour and a new take on the Hitchcock classic, The Lady Vanishes), the documentary series Independent Lens (hosted by Stanley […]
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From Deduction to Forensics, PBS Special Tells How Sherlock Changed the World!
Modern methods of crime fighting owe much to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional ‘World’s first consulting detective,’ Sherlock Holmes. From his method of deduction to his use of blood spatter, fingerprints and studies of such things as the types of cigar and cigarette smoke, Holmes inspired methods now used around the world in the pursuit […]
Downton Abbey’ Third Season Highlights PBS’ Winter/Spring 2013 Schedule
PBS’ Winter Schedule features the return of fan favorite Downton Abbey (recap above) and its usual eclectic mix of quality programming – from Antiques Roadshow to Nova to Great Performances. Follow the jump for a detailed look at 2013 PBS’ Winter/Spring Schedule.
Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune –American Masters Looks At The Life And Death Of An American Original!
Phil Ochs was a protest singer’s protest singer. He wrote what he saw, and what he saw was injustice. Unlike more famous and more lauded protest singers, he didn’t couch his songs in metaphor – he was incisive and disturbing. On American Masters [PBS, 10/9C], Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune follows Ochs’ life and […]
Woody Allen: A Documentary – PBS’ American Masters Presents An Intimate Look At A Real Renaissance Man!
Take one of the world’s best documentarians, give him complete access to one of the world’s premiere directors, and the result is Woody Allen: A Documentary [PBS, Sunday & Monday, 9/8C] – Robert Weide’s surprisingly intimate and candid portrait of the writer/director/actor/comedian/musician [how’s that for a multi-hyphenate?].
DVD Roundup I: The Civil War, The Ten Commandments & Morning Glory
I’m playing catch-up in DVD reviews, this week, thanks to circumstances beyond my control. We’ll start with three entertaining titles from Paramount Home Entertainment: the slight, but entertaining Morning Glory; Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 religious epic, The Ten Commandments, and the innovative documentary series that raised the bar for all documentarians since its release, Ken […]
Coming Soon: The Elia Kazan Collection – Selected by Martin Scorsese!
Martin Scorsese is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time, and yet very few people are aware that as influential as he is, he was influenced to the same kind of degree by Elia Kazan [On the Waterfront, Splendor in the Grass]. Scorsese’s documentary, A Letter to Elia, will run alongside Kazan’s America, […]