Great American Recipe is PBS’s disappointingly bland cooking competition
PBS’s first cooking show could have been its signature reality competition. Alas, it’s bland, lacking acid and heat—and has no real identity.
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American Veteran’s simple, surprising stories are neither propaganda nor polemic
PBS’s excellent series American Veterans just allows individuals to share their own stories and experiences, which are very different even though they all served in the military.
PBS’s new Great American Recipe cooking competition has some alarming fine print
PBS announced its own new cooking competition, The Great American Recipe, which will be judged by Tiffany Derry from Top Chef and Graham Elliot from Masterchef. But it’s asking for a lot from people who want to apply for the show.
Philly DA is a thrilling, revealing look at an attempt to ‘destroy the system’ from within
Independent Lens’s enthralling PBS documentary reality series Philly D.A. watches from inside to see what happens when someone tries to change the system.
Samantha Brown calls out the ‘void of diversity’ in travel, food, and home reality TV hosts
Former Travel Channel host and current PBS host Samantha Brown says “the most important” thing TV networks can do now is “to embrace that diversity in their own programing.”
On Dishing with Julia Child, TV chefs watch Julia’s TV show, and it’s a delight
Carla Hall, Vivian Howard, Marcus Samuelsson, Eric Ripert, and other chefs watch—and comment on—episodes of Julia Child’s The French Chef in this new show. Highly recommended.
College Behind Bars: a ‘more realistic’ look at prison life, and actual rehabilitation
An interview with College Behind Bars director Lynn Novick and producer Sarah Botstein about their four-part series, which goes into prisons to follow students in the Bard Prison Initiative.