PBS Spotlights Ken Burns’ ‘Country Music’ and new Jane Austen Drama Series ‘Sanditon’
While other networks are undergoing the aftereffects of consolidations and management changes, PBS remains under the steady hand of Paula Kerger, whose contract as president and CEO has been renewed for five years. Kerger kicked off the public broadcaster’s Television Critics Assn. summer press tour Monday in Beverly Hills by announcing her new deal, which runs through 2024. “I believe so strongly in the purpose and power of...
‘Defying the Nazis:’ The Story of a Couple Who Stood Up to Hitler
It was 1939. The Nazis were ravaging Europe when a young Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, answered a call at his office in Wellesley, Massachusetts that would change not only the life of his family but the course of history during the early dark days of World War II. It is a tale of sacrifice and heroism that may not have been told if not for a high school paper written by Sharp’s grandson, Artemis Joukowsky. When Joukowsky was a...
Ken Burns Gets Intimate With the Roosevelts on PBS
Just as “The Civil War” and “The War” before it, master documentarian Ken Burns’ “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History” is turning out to be a massive blockbuster for PBS. The sprawling documentary chronicling the lives of Theodore, Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt began Sunday night with the first of its seven, two-hour episodes, which garnered a 5.8 rating and an average audience of 9.06 million viewers, according to Nielsen...
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