In the wake of the Trump administration’s defunding of public broadcasting, local stations PBS SoCal (KOCE and KCET) are planning a telethon next week from the PBS outfit’s Burbank Studios home. “We ...

“I’m most worried about the most vulnerable stations, so I have spent a fair amount of time working with a few others and some key foundations to try to put a corpus of money together that will give ...

PBS SoCal announced a huge telethon featuring a variety of actors, hosts and musicians to celebrate 55 years of public television. Josh Groban, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ken Burns, Ziggy Marley, Lily Tomlin, ...

The show you now know as the PBS News Hour went on the air 50 years ago. Watch in our video player above. “The Robert MacNeil Report” first appeared on television screens on Oct. 20, 1975, an ...

In a time before the omnipresent internet, Annie Feighery’s window to the world was the PBS News Hour — by a slightly different name. In her small, rural New Mexico town, Feighery’s high school civics ...

Oct. 22 (UPI) --Sam Claflin will portray The Count of Monte Cristo in an upcoming addition to the PBS Masterpiece series. The story, inspired by the 1846 book penned by Alexandre Dumas, follows Edmond ...

PBS Masterpiece has revealed the premiere date for its adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo tsarring Sam Claflin (Daisy Jones and the Six) and Jeremy Irons (The Borgias). The latest version of the ...

You can’t accuse those who title “NOVA” episodes of burying the lede with “Ancient Desert Death Trap.” There are mysteries afoot, for sure. But a viewer will have the unavoidable suspicion that doom ...

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Fun facts about Cleopatra: Although associated in the public mind with ancient Egypt, she lived closer to our time than to the building of the pyramids of Giza. When she was ruling Egypt and ...