Public television executives have agreed to keep two long running documentary film programs — Pov and Independent Lens — in primetime and to substantially increase marketing support for the shows, PBS announced Thursday.
The public television network said it would continue to transmit the two programs at 10 p.m. Mondays and that affiliates, including Wnet Channel 13 in New York, would broadcast them at that time. That reverses an earlier proposal by Wnet that film advocates worried would spread to stations throughout the PBS system, effectively moving the programs out of primetime.
PBS said the new agreement would not only keep “Pov” and “Independent Lens” in their Monday night slot and promote the shows, and documentaries in general, in a number of ways — releasing the films on a streaming platform, expanding theatrical releases, creating a new college curriculum and establishing “programming events” that package docs with “thematically-related programming.”
Producers of the two TV...
The public television network said it would continue to transmit the two programs at 10 p.m. Mondays and that affiliates, including Wnet Channel 13 in New York, would broadcast them at that time. That reverses an earlier proposal by Wnet that film advocates worried would spread to stations throughout the PBS system, effectively moving the programs out of primetime.
PBS said the new agreement would not only keep “Pov” and “Independent Lens” in their Monday night slot and promote the shows, and documentaries in general, in a number of ways — releasing the films on a streaming platform, expanding theatrical releases, creating a new college curriculum and establishing “programming events” that package docs with “thematically-related programming.”
Producers of the two TV...
- 4/23/2015
- by James Rainey
- Variety - TV News
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