TV Worth Blogging
by David Thiel, Program Director for WILL-TV
An insider's view of public television programming and the issues that help determine what and how you watch
Summer and Beyond from PBS Showcase
The final session of the PBS Showcase program preview celebrated this summer’s premieres and peered well into 2010.
Read on for more!
This July, A long-running British series comes to U.S. shores in Time Team America, a reality series which gives a group of archaeologists just three days to uncover as much information as they can about a historical site. They’ll use high-tech scanning equipment—and a whole lot of digging—to get at the truth.
P.O.V. will return in June for its 22nd season of independently-produced documentaries. One of the highlights will be “Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” the biography of the famous rocker.
“Secrets of Shangri-La” is a National Geographic Special coming this fall. A team of explorers will return to a warren of sacred shrines hidden in cliffside caves high in the Himalayas to rescue a forgotten library of handwritten texts.
This summer and beyond, American Masters will bring us the lives of luminaries. Among them will be Neil Young, William F. Buckley, Miles Davis, Garrison Keillor, Joan Baez, Louisa May Alcott, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, and Mambo king Cachao.
Nova’s new episodes this fall will search the heavens in “Ultimate Telescope” and find how the “fittest” came to be in “Decoding Evolution.” A three-part series called “First Human” will explore our earliest days.
Four episodes will comprise the fifth season of Art in the Twenty-First Century this October. Its profiles of modern artists will span six continents and showcase unusual hybrids of photography, painting, video, and performance.
Coming in Winter 2010 will be a three-part miniseries called Human Nature. It will look into our need for social relationships, the role of so-called negative emotions such as fear and sadness, and how all of these play into our endless pursuit of happiness.
The Calling, planned for Spring 2010, profiles those who seek to enter religious service.
The producers of Carrier will next bring us Circus, premiering in Fall 2010. Similar to their previous effort, it promises to take us deep into the daily lives of those who appear under the big top—and those who have to erect that massive tent in city after city.
I hope that you enjoyed this look at what’s to come from PBS and WILL-TV!
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