PBS has aired the final edition of PBS News Weekend, marking a significant programming shift for the public broadcaster following major federal funding cuts to public media. The Saturday and
New three-part natural history series brings life to extinct worlds in the Western U.S. beginning summer 2020 Today at the Television Critics Association press tour, PBS and WTTW Chicago announced
(Chicago — 25 April 2018) The PBS series What’s Good was just announced as a winner in the Science & Education category for the 2018 Webby Awards. Brand Programming Studios,
Lakeshore PBS recently announced that Democracy Now will soon be part of its lineup. Beginning at 12 a.m. on December 5th, the program’s breaking news and in-depth feature stories will
Well, this is a fun way to end the week. Long-time animation company, Global Mechanic, has released three of six minute-long video shorts for PBS Kids. With the overarching theme,
“AN EVENING WITH VALERIE JARRETT,” a presentation of The HistoryMakers, the massive archive of interviews with notable African American leaders now part of the Library of Congress, airs on WTTW/11
“MAYA ANGELOU: THE PEOPLE’S POET,” the feature doc being produced by Media Process Group’s Bob Hercules and Keith Walker, will
Chicago owes its glorious parkland to visionary landscape architect Jens Jensen, whose genius is described in “Jens Jensen: The Living Green,” director Carey Lundin’s award-winning feature
OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMMAKER Tod Lending’s documentary, All the Difference, five years in the making, has received a $1.1 million grant
The Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) 2014 Emmy Awards ceremony Nov. 1 will be especially
The first two episodes of “Citizen Soldier,” a 12-part original panel discussion series on military topics, coproduced by internationally famous Pritzker Military Library, and <a href="http://www.jumpmasterproductions.com/"
WTTW will nationally host and air HMS Media’s Matt Hoffman and Scott Silberstein’s locally produced Pledge Month special over national PBS and Ch. 11 on March
Out-Write Media this month will deliver to WTTW the seven-episode first season of its national PBS bicycle travel series Pedal America, edited by Luminair’s Annie Speicher
Long before Nashville, Chicago was the country music capital of the world — thanks to The National Barn Dance, a popular radio show from Chicago that aired for
After four years in the making, A Good Man, the feature-length documentary about choreographer Bill T. Jones’ creation of a dance-theatre piece about the life of Abraham Lincoln, will air
Filmmaker Yony Leyser’s documentary, “William S. Burroughs: A Man Within,” gets a theatrical release from New York-based Oscilloscope Laboratories this fall and a broadcast on PBS’ “Independent Lens” this
Chicago’s two non-fiction heavyweights — Kartemquin Films’ Gordon Quinn and Media Process Group’s Bob Hercules -? are currently filming a feature-length documentary, to air on PBS in late 2010.
SETH McCLELLAN’S “KING IN CHICAGO” is a new hourlong documentary chronicling Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s collaboration with the Chicago Freedom Movement for open housing in 1966,
Selected by PBS because of his reputation as an expert in children’s advertising, director Don Hoeg and the Radar Studios’ team created a promo for the national Jan. 23 launch
