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PBS 2010: Prime-time preview, part 2
PBS producers revealed details about more upcoming fall prime time public television events Thursday morning in a companion piece to Tuesday’s session.
Here are the highlights:
“The Tenth Inning”
September 28-29, 2010 on PBS
Ken Burns updates his 1994 series “Baseball.” Beginning with the crippling 1994-95 Major League strike and continuing through and past the doping controversies, the two-part, four-hour film includes the stories of Joe Torre, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Pedro Martinez, Ichiro Suzuki, Cal Ripken Jr. and Barry Bonds and includes input from fans, players, writers and broadcasters.
“God in America”
Fall 2010
From the producers of “Frontline” and “American Experience,” this six-hour series examines religion in the United States, covering 400 years of history and focusing on the ways Americans beliefs about God have shaped America.
“Great Performances”
Highlights include Sir Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood reprising their Tony-nominated performances in a production of “Macbeth” that places the action in a nameless 20th-century netherworld; and The New York Philharmonic’s all-star salute to Stephen Sondheim on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
“Stuff”
This “Nova” series finds personal technology writer David Pogue of the New York Times traveling the world in themed episodes built around all kinds of stuff. Storng stuff. Small stuff. Other stuff. For the “samll, Smaller, Smallest” episode, Pogue and company visit the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas.
“Pioneers of Television”
Coming to PBS in 2011
The second season features four new episodes covering “pioneers” in the areas of televised science fiction, westerns, crime dramas and children’s TV.
“Prohibition”
Coming to PBS in 2011
The newest film from Ken Burns is probably a little dry.
“Black Americas”
Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosts a four-hour series on black culture in the Caribbean and Latin America.
“Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook”
Fall 2010 on PBS
This three-part series is a documentary-style, cross-country road trip through 20th century American popular music led by historian, collector, raconteur, and showman Feinstein.
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