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Independent Lens to Present Black History Month Programming on PBS
by Tyler Peterson - February 06, 2013 In celebration of Black History Month, Independent Lens, the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary series, today announced programming available during the month of February that highlights the African American experience. The films feature unsung heroes of the civil rights era, African Americans who h...
Glee, Modern Family, Among Winners Of Peabody Awards
by Gabrielle Sierra - March 31, 2010 The George Foster Peabody Awards are created to recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by TV and radio stations, networks, producing organizations, individuals and the World Wide Web....
THIRTEEN to Premiere REAL MAD MEN & WOMEN OF MADISON AVENUE, 7/1
by Caryn Robbins - June 21, 2013 Inspired by AMC's Mad Men, The Real Mad Men and Women of Madison Avenue chronicles the growth of the advertising industry from the 1950s through today, looking at the real men and women who created some of the most ground-breaking advertising campaigns and slogans and whose work changed the landscap...
PBS Offers 2nd Annual Online Film Festival, Beginning Today
by TV News Desk - March 04, 2013 Today at the Television Critics Association meeting, PBS reaffirmed its commitment to independent film by announcing that it will offer its second annual Online Film Festival, featuring short form films beginning today, March 4, and will offer a multi-platform Independent Film Showcase this fall. Bo...
Broadway's Seth Numrich Joins Kim Cattrall in the Old Vic's SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, Beg. Tonight
by BWW News Desk - June 12, 2013 Seth Numrich, star of Broadway's War Horse and Golden Boy, will join Kim Cattrall in the Old Vic's production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Marianne Elliott (War Horse). The production is set to begin tonight, June 12....
2012 Primetime Emmy Award Nomination Summary
by Caryn Robbins - July 19, 2012 Nominations for this year's Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today, Thursday, July 19, from the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre at Television Academy headquarters in the NoHo Arts District of Los Angeles. Below is the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards Nomination Summa...
PBS Airs THE REVISIONAIRIES Tonight
by TV News Desk - January 28, 2013 Premiering tonight, January 28, 2013, The Revisionaries goes inside the Texas State Board of Education -- where tumultuous battles are fought over how science, history and other core subjects are taught....
PBS to Air THE REVISIONAIRIES, 1/28
by Caryn Robbins - January 07, 2013 Premiering on January 28, 2013, The Revisionaries goes inside the Texas State Board of Education -- where tumultuous battles are fought over how science, history and other core subjects are taught....
BUTTE, AMERICA Screens At Victoria Theatre 11/6
by Gabrielle Sierra - October 15, 2010 Former San Francisco based (now in Montana) Emmy-nominated, (ISHI: THE LAST YAHI) Producer/Director Pamela Roberts' new film BUTTE, AMERICA tells the epic tale of Butte, Montana, once the world's largest producer of copper, and known as the town that "plumbed and electrified America," 'the Gibraltar...
Terrence Howard To Host 'Grey Gardens' Documentary 12/23
by Faetra Petillo - August 15, 2008 Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway, the new documentary film produced by East of Doheny with Albert Maysles that has already reached cult status during its rollout of limited screenings, will air nationwide on PBS on the Emmy Award-winning Independent Lens, hosted by Terrence Howard, on Tue...
Documentary A SISTER'S CALL Brings Mental Illness Into Spotlight
by Caryn Robbins - January 08, 2013 A SISTER'S CALL, the award-winning documentary brilliantly directed by Rebecca Schaper and Kyle Tekiela , continues garnering prizes at film festivals around the country....
Film Festival Highlights Social, Economic Needs of Haiti One Year after Earthquake 1.23
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 05, 2011 A new film festival that focuses on the ongoing social and economic needs of people in Haiti is scheduled for 1-7:30 p.m. on Jan. 23 ,at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater....
PBS to Offer 2nd Annual Online Film Festival, Beginning 3/4
by Caryn Robbins - January 14, 2013 Today at the Television Critics Association meeting,PBS reaffirmed its commitment to independent film by announcing that it will offer its second annual Online Film Festival,featuring short form films beginning Monday, March 4, and will offer a multi-platform Independent Film Showcase this fall....
Broadway's Seth Numrich Joins Kim Cattrall in the Old Vic's SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, June 2013
by BWW News Desk - April 11, 2013 According to the Daily Mail, Seth Numrich, star of Broadway's War Horse and Golden Boy, will join Kim Cattrall in the Old Vic's production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Marianne Elliott (War Horse). The production is set to begin June 12....
Showtime's HOMELAND Among Winners of 71st Annual Peabody Awards
by Caryn Robbins - April 04, 2012 Thirty-eight recipients of the 71st Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2011, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Galler...
UGA Accepts Peabody Awards Entries Through 1/14
by BWW News Desk - January 14, 2011 The George Foster Peabody Awards' 70th annual search for excellence in electronic media has begun. More than 100,000 call for entries alerts have been mailed worldwide, supplemented by advertising in media-industry publications. Original broadcast, cablecast and webcast programs presented in the cal...
2012 EMMY NOMINATIONS: By Network
by Caryn Robbins - July 19, 2012 Nominations for this year's Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today by Jimmy Kimmel and Kerry Washington from the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre at Television Academy headquarters in the NoHo Arts District of Los Angeles. The following is a list of the 2012 Emmys Nomination by network....
PBS Airs WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES Tonight
by TV News Desk - April 15, 2013 WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today...
PBS Indies Showcase to Air DON'T STOP BELIEVEIN': EVERYMAN'S JOURNEY & More this Fall
by Tyler Peterson - July 31, 2013 The first-ever PBS INDIES SHOWCASE debuts this fall with four critically acclaimed documentaries from the award-winning series POV and INDEPENDENT LENS. Scheduled over four consecutive Monday nights from September 30 through October 21, the PBS INDIES SHOWCASEspotlights the work of independent filmm...
FOUR PLACES Makes West Coast Debut At Rogue Machine, Opens 5/14
by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2010 What starts as an innocent lunch between a septuagenarian Mom and her two adult children degenerates into a fierce game of cat and mouse which leads to a confession that will radically upset the lives of the entire family. In Joel Drake Johnson's darkly humorous play, a weekly family outing takes so...
UGA Accepts Peabody Awards Entries Through 1/14
by Samantha Toy - October 28, 2010 The George Foster Peabody Awards' 70th annual search for excellence in electronic media has begun. More than 100,000 call for entries alerts have been mailed worldwide, supplemented by advertising in media-industry publications. Original broadcast, cablecast and webcast programs presented in the cal...
2012 Creative Arts Emmy Award Winners Announced - 2012 Tony Awards, SMASH, MEMPHIS & More!
by BWW Special Coverage - September 16, 2012 Amongst the highlights for theatre fans, the 65th Annual Tony Awards picked up three Emmys - for Outstanding Special Class Program, Art Direction and Outstanding Song (It's Not Just for Gays Anymore' - written by Adam Schlesinger & David Javerbaum and performed by Neil Patrick Harris). Smash cho...
PBS Premieres 'Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway' 12/23
by Eddie Varley - December 17, 2008 Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway, the new documentary film produced by East of Doheny with Albert Maysles that has already reached cult status during its rollout of limited screenings, will air nationwide on PBS on the Emmy Award-winning Independent Lens, hosted by Terrence Howard, on Tue...
Coney Artland Prod Presents A CONEY ISLAND OF THE BEHIND 12/3
by BWW News Desk - December 03, 2011 Coney Artland Productions presents A Coney Island Of The Behind, an evening of poetry, storytelling, comedy, dance, burlesque, music and mayhem about Coney Island, starring Coney Artland founder Michael Schwartz, joined by his very special guests, some of the finest artists in New York, for the inau...
Broadway's Seth Numrich Joins Kim Cattrall in the Old Vic's SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, June 2013
by BWW News Desk - April 11, 2013 According to the Daily Mail, Seth Numrich, star of Broadway's War Horse and Golden Boy, will join Kim Cattrall in the Old Vic's production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Marianne Elliott (War Horse). The production is set to begin June 12.... |
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