Last night, PBS debuted League of Denial, which explores what the NFL knew–but actively denied and even covered up since the 1990s–about the impact of the violent sport on its athletes’ brains, and not just from concussions. The full episode of Frontline, below, is online for free, and is a must-watch for the stories it …
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After creating ads for fake reality shows earlier this year, PBS affiliate WNET/Thirteen is now making trailers for fake reality shows to call attention to bad reality television. They are kind of amusing, but the campaign is maddening. Like the fake posters for shows such as “Bayou Eskimos,” “The Dillionaire,” “Knitting Wars,” and “Married to …
New York public broadcasting station WNET has begun a fundraising campaign that advertises for five fake reality TV shows on fake networks–“Bad Bad Bag Boys,” “Bayou Eskimos,” “The Dillionaire,” “Knitting Wars,” and “Married to a Mime.” The imagery for the fake shows and includes this tagline: “The fact you thought this was a real show …
America Revealed is about transportation, food, power, and manufacturing, and mostly comes to life thanks to Yul, who gets into the middle of the things that he’s talking about.
This summer and fall, PBS will air Market Wars, a 20-episode competition series during which four antiques dealers complete to find antiques and get the most money for them at an auction that will conclude each hour-long episode. While PBS has aired Antiques Roadshow since 1997, and this new series comes from its producers, it …
While discussing his upcoming multi-part PBS documentary Baseball: The Tenth Inning, Ken Burns described the appeal of reality TV.