Posts Tagged ‘ PBS ’

Fall Premieres 2015: Cable (Reality & Variety)

September 15, 2015
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Fall Premieres 2015: Cable (Reality & Variety)

Antenna's reviewers address new reality and variety programming from MTV, PBS, Syfy, Lifetime, ABC Family, truTV, Comedy Central, TLC, and Travel Channel
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Fall Premieres 2015: Cable (Scripted)

September 14, 2015
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Fall Premieres 2015: Cable (Scripted)

Antenna's reviewers evaluate the latest scripted offerings from Disney XD, FX, AMC, TNT, PBS, Comedy Central, and IFC
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Sesame Street’s New Landlord

August 15, 2015
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Sesame Street’s New Landlord

What does HBO's deal with Sesame Workshop mean for Cookie, HBO, PBS, and their audiences?
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Audiovisual Archives and the Context Conundrum

Audiovisual Archives and the Context Conundrum

Stephanie Sapienza, Project Manager at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), advocates for why the audio and paper materials of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)'s radio collection - housed at the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin-Madison - need to be integrated online to maximize their usefulness...
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Losing Our Heads for the Tudors: The Unquiet Pleasures of Quixotic History in The Tudors and Wolf Hall

June 23, 2015
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Losing Our Heads for the Tudors:  The Unquiet Pleasures of Quixotic History in <i>The Tudors</i> and <i>Wolf Hall</i>

The Tudors and Wolf Hall can actually tell us a great deal about how the early modern appears in contemporary popular culture, as well as how we engage with the historical past.
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“It’s Approximately 500 Times More Fun to Watch Downton Abbey in a Crowd”: Exploring the Downton Abbey Phenomenon

January 30, 2015
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“It’s Approximately 500 Times More Fun to Watch <i>Downton Abbey</i> in a Crowd”: Exploring the <i>Downton Abbey</i> Phenomenon

As season five of Downton Abbey airs in the U.S., Twin Cities Public Television’s rebranding efforts inspire an exploration of the expansive U.S. public television phenomenon.
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Why Co-Produce? Elementary, Holmes.

March 11, 2014
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Why Co-Produce?  Elementary, Holmes.

What I mean by “transnational television co-production,” the tensions that shape it, and why I think it’s worth studying.
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ESPN, Frontline, and the Bottom Line

October 16, 2013
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ESPN, Frontline, and the Bottom Line

ESPN's decision to distance itself from League of Denial suggest conflict between priding itself for probing sport’s cultural meanings while keeping the world’s wealthiest sports organizations in business.
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Midwifes and Melodrama: Call the Midwife & PBS

November 22, 2012
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Midwifes and Melodrama: Call the Midwife & PBS

PBS perhaps hoped that BBC1’s Call the Midwife could be their next big hit, following on from the success of ITV1’s Downton Abbey. Faye Woods contemplates the significance of Call the Midwife's inability to match Downton Abbey's ratings and buzz in the US.
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The Cheese Stands Alone: Downton Abbey’s Emmy Coup

July 19, 2012
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The Cheese Stands Alone: <i>Downton Abbey’</i>s Emmy Coup

PBS successfully transitions Downton Abbey from Miniseries to Drama Series by continuing to lean on the advantages afforded the former distinction.
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Abbeyites Get Down with Downton Abbey

January 20, 2012
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Abbeyites Get Down with Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey has proved to be a hit for PBS and its cultural significance is evident in the various ways its fans engage with the show and with the past it mediates for us.
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In Thanks: To The Documentary Group for America In Primetime

November 23, 2011
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In Thanks: To The Documentary Group for <i>America In Primetime</i>

The four part look at US television, America in Primetime, has been extraordinary, offered me new ideas, and left me reminded of the possibilities of the medium and with renewed thanks that I earn a living studying it.
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