NPT picked up six nominations when the Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced their Midsouth Regional Emmy© Award nominations last night at the offices of Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) on Music Row. In the DOCUMENTARY/CULTURAL category, Matthew Emigh and Linda Wei got a nomination for The Gift: The [...]
This Thanksgiving, the Tennessee Crossroads Marathon will run across both our channels (NPT & NPT2) for 15-hours. Beginning at 7:oo a.m. on NPT2. After a twelve hour run on NPT2, the marathon will switch over to NPT at 7:00 p.m. for three more hours of your favorite Crossroads episodes. For more detailed information on times [...]
After being broadcast live here on NPT in October, an abridged hour-long version of the 2011 Americana Awards and Honors show from the Ryman Auditorium will air nationally as a special epsiode of Austin City Limits. ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival 2011 will air on NPT in Austin City Limits‘ regular Wednesday night timeslot, November [...]
The PBS Fall Arts Festival begins this Friday, October 14 at 8:00pm with a new production of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, HMS Pinafore, from the Guthrie Theatre in Minnesota. The Festival will continue for the subsequent eight weeks, with a dynamic collection of performance and documentary shows, from director Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam Twenty [...]
For quite awhile, NPT Media Update was all alone in the NPT Blog universe. We had no blog buddies. Then, last year, we introduced the Community Cinema Nashville blog, to keep Community Cinemaphiles and documentary fans abreast of what was going on during the season. But that still left us lonely during the off-season. That’s [...]
“Because you don’t have to wait for something to be gone to revisit it.” Several weeks ago, we told you about our plans for a new blog series all about those iconic Nashville-area places and things that could one day wind up in a Memories of Nashville show, but don’t need to yet. Inspired by [...]
We’re excited today to launch a mini, end-of-month/end-of-fiscal-year fundraising campaign that we think will fit just about anyone’s budget. More Reasons to Support NPT After the Jump
From new episodes in our Tennessee Civil War 150, NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisis and Next Door Neighbors documentary projects, to a third volume of our popular 20th Century in Photographs series, to a public screening and event surrounding the Freedom Riders documentary, 2011 is going to be an amazing year of great programming and events [...]
In this bonus clip from the NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisis: Obesity documentary, which premieres on Thursday, November 18 at 8 p.m. and online the following day, Food Marketing Specialist, Southern cook extraordinaire and Volunteer Gardener regular Tammy Algood takes you on a tour of a local grocery store to explore how grocery stores manipulate [...]
By Allison Inman When I tell friends I’m working on a documentary about Elia Kazan’s 1960 film Wild River, I don’t often hear that “ahh” of recognition. Despite being revered by modern critics, it’s never been released on DVD in the U.S., so it lurks in the shadow of Kazan giants like East of Eden [...]
