Given how fashionable it has become to grouse about "Downton Abbey," Sunday's fifth-season finale offered a welcome reminder of just how splendid the show can be – warm, funny and emotional on a…
The longest-running series for independent documentaries on television, “POV,” is prepared to unveil its 28th season, which will include an exclusive look behind insurgent lines in the Syrian civil…
Documentary filmmakers featured for years on public television mainstays "Independent Lens" and "POV" are fighting a proposal by one of PBS’ flagship stations, WNET, that would push the long-running…
For a young Bonnie Raitt, appearing on one of the first episodes of WTTW's "Soundstage," was a pivotal career moment. "I was still relatively unknown nationally and to have Ken offer that kind of…
It's a good thing that Ken Ehrlich has already cleared his calendar to receive his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Jan. 28, because there's precious little downtime for the Emmy-Award winning…
Forty years after it first aired, the premiere of "Soundstage" has found a new life. The tribute to Muddy Waters, featuring Willie Dixon, Mike Bloomfield, Johnny Winter, Dr. John, Waters himself and…
PBS and BBC have inked a multititle co-production deal also involving BBC Worldwide, PBS president-CEO Paula A. Kerger announced at Monday’s Television Critics Assn. press tour. The pact will create…
PBS is pushing further into original scripted programming with the addition of an untitled Civil War drama from Ridley Scott, which has been ordered to series with an initial six episodes. PBS…
“If ever there was a masterpiece on ‘Masterpiece,’ this is it,” Rebecca Eaton, exec producer of PBS’ “Masterpiece,” said at Monday’s Television Critics Assn. panel for “Wolf Hall.” The six-part…
PBS has appointed Jonathan Barzilay, a TV-industry veteran who has spent substantial time in both kids’ TV and the non-profit world, as the network’s chief operating officer. He will start March 25…
