August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson”
August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama The Piano Lesson tells the tale of a family heirloom: an ornately carved piano which carries the history of the Charles family. As the prized…
Target Seven: Armed and Angry
A report on the militia movement in United States, this is a first-rate investigative effort by a local television station. WXYZ-TV’s news team, led by reporter Shellee Smith, producer Barry…
Fourways Farm
Specifically designed to meet the needs of four-to-six-year olds and their teachers, Fourways Farm is based on the guiding principle that a child’s first experience with science and technology should…
Car Talk
Perhaps more appropriately named “Zen and the Art of Automobile Maintenance,” this entertaining and informative show takes us simultaneously under the hood and into the mind of its vast listening…
Prisoners in Bosnia
When correspondent Sylvia Poggioli first traveled to northern Bosnia in August 1992, the phrase “ethnic cleansing” had not yet made it into the worldwide vocabulary. In a series of courageous…
Roseanne
In an era when “family values” and the typical nuclear family have attained a kind of sanctity, Roseanne has the courage to look unflinchingly at contemporary family life. The Conners…
The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell herself would have been fascinated, to say the least. Here is the real “inside” story of many things that went on before Gone With The Wind emerged as…
thirtysomething
Two or three times each decade, series television transcends formula and routine and enters the realm of real dramatic art. Previous Peabody Award winners that fit this description include L.A….
America Undercover: Drunk and Deadly
More than 50,000 Americans die on the highways each year and experts estimate that more than half of these deaths are alcohol-related. But numbers can be numbing and the number…
Mandela
The year 1987 marked the 25th year of the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela by the South African government. He was charged with high treason, but his real crime may have…