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Tweets (Some Annotated) from the PBS Annual Meeting:
Several of us here at NPT recently spent four days at the PBS Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, where we caught previews of the upcoming season, discussed public broadcasting business and took part in professional development sessions with representatives from PBS, public broadcasting organizations and representatives for public television stations around the nation. A wrap-up [...]
The National Parks: New Ken Burns Doc Premieres Sunday September 27
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUn4IuOHrRU"] The new Ken Burns documentary series, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, premieres this Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. on NPT and PBS stations nationwide and runs through Friday, October 2, 2009. The 12-hour, six-part documentary series, directed by Burns and co-produced with his longtime colleague, Dayton Duncan, who also wrote the [...]
Rafts Set Sail on Citywide Mark Twain Celebration
It was a beautiful final day of August yesterday as the rafts set sail in the fountains at the Public Square at Metro Courthouse to kickoff Nashville’s Citywide Celebration of Mark Twain. Following words by Twain himself — expertly and humorously conjured by Nashville actor Brian Russell — and Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, handmade rafts [...]
Nashville Hosts A Citywide Celebration of Mark Twain
Last year, when the Mayor’s Office and the Nashville Public Library encouraged a citywide read of the works of John Irving, I threw myself in to it. I decided to devour A Prayer for Owen Meany over several weeks, and took myself very seriously. Everywhere I went, I carried my beat-up paperback copy of the [...]
The Emotional Archaeology of Ken Burns
Celebrated documentarian Ken Burns appeared at Jack C. Massey Hall at Belmont University on Monday night, but he didn’t come alone. He brought with him Abraham Lincoln (his bet for the nation’s greatest president), Mark Twain (“he never wrote a bad word”), Walt Whitman and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Joining him on the stage were the [...]
Your Beautiful Tennessee State and National Parks
NPT is preparing the latest installment of its popular Beautiful Tennessee series, and this time, we’re focusing on Tennessee’s State and National Parks. We want your home movies. Got video from that family hike in the Smoky Mountains? Ever bike the entire Tennessee stretch of the Natchez Trace?* Inspired by Ken Burns’ approach to “The [...]
Ken Burns at the DNC and on Your Summer Vacation
Last night’s video tribute to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention was directed by Ken Burns and Mark Herzog. Meanwhile, as we told you here last month, Burns has been working on “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” a new 12-hour documentary that traces the origins and growth of the national parks [...]
Ken Burns Will Take Us to National Parks
Gas prices putting a damper on your summer vacation road trip? Even a trip to our own Great Smoky Mountains getting expensive? That word “staycation” getting annoying? If things don’t get better by next year, filmmaker Ken Burns will at least try to get us to those places in America we’ve always wanted to visit [...]
CRITICS RANK ‘THE WAR’ AMONG 2007’s BEST
More than 15 major television critics and bloggers cited “The War” as one of the 10 best television programs in 2007. Here are links to three: Tim Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle, Matt Roush, TV Guide Tom Shales, The Washington Post
KEN BURNS ON THE LATE SHOW
I could probably post every day about nothing but THE WAR and what people are writing about it. It’s too easy. It’s great posting reviews from the TV Critics, but sometimes what the non-critics are saying is even more moving. Ken Burns was on The Late Show with David Letterman last night. Michael Z. McIntee, [...]
