CLEARING UP SOME HDTV CONFUSION

Bought an HDTV, but the picture still looks bad? Maybe worse than your non-HDTV set? David Pogue, over at Pogue’s Posts, has a great post on purchasing an HDTV.

“HOLDING HUSSEIN ACCOUNTABLE” AT VANDERBILT

From Will Pedigo, producer at NPT currently working on a documentary about Nashville’s Kurdish community.
This Thursday evening, January 31 from 5:30-7:00 p.m., there is a free and open to public event at the Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt University Law School — 131 21st Avenue South in Nashville — Holding the Hussein Regime Accountable for Atrocities: The [...]

PINK SLIP AT THE HOTEL PRESTON

This would be much artier if she was watching NPT, no?

THE OFFICIAL BIRD OF NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION

This wooden eagle — carved entirely with chainsaws and personalized for us — was the handiwork of Crossville’s Ben King and John Teeple, “Masters of the Chainsaw.” The woodsmiths will be featured on an upcoming episode of Tennessee Crossroads.

UNCOVERING CHRIS ROCK’S ROOTS

Chris Rock was interviewed on Oprah this past Wednesday, on his experience discovering his roots. Rock is one of the prominent African-Americans that Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. helps to discover their roots in the groundbreaking PBS series African American Lives 2, coming to NPT and PBS Stations nationwide on February 6 and [...]

CRITICS RANK ‘THE WAR’ AMONG 2007’s BEST

More than 15 major television critics and bloggers cited “The War” as one of the 10 best television programs in 2007. Here are links to three:
Tim Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle,
Matt Roush, TV Guide
Tom Shales, The Washington Post

REACTIONS TO GROWING UP ONLINE

Over at Remotely Connected, Anastasia Goodstein, founder of ypulse.com, blogs about last night’s Frontline episode “Growing Up Online.” While she concludes that the program “succeeds at putting real faces on the sensational headlines we read about this generation growing up online,” she also feels there are things missing.
“What I felt was missing from the documentary [...]

PRINCE AMONG SLAVES EXPLORES AND ENLIGHTENS

PRINCE AMONG SLAVES comes to NPT on Monday, February 4, 2008 at 9:00 p.m. Narrated by Mos Def, it tells the forgotten true story of an African prince who was enslaved in Mississippi for 40 years before finally achieving freedom and becoming one of the most famous men in America. Co-Executive Producer Michael Wolfe offers [...]

THE ORIGINAL SHOW ABOUT NOTHING

Been watching the wonderful and enlightening documentary The Jewish Americans for the last two Wednesdays (hours five and six air next Wednesday, February 23 from 8:00-10:00 on NPT Channel 8). Last night, I learned about The Goldbergs, an extremely successful radio show that moved to television in 1949. It starred Gertrude Berg as the matriarch [...]

SHE IS SO COMPLETE!

David Alford and Marin Miller, two of our area’s finest actors, have brought their talents to a new promo spot for the upcoming NPT broadcast of THE COMPLETE JANE AUSTEN, which begins this Sunday night, January 13 with “Persuasion.”
SPOILER ALERT! Marin’s character is none too pleased when Alford’s character informs her that he’s [...]