Archive for the 'Documentary' Category
Body in Numbers comes to Discovery
Discovery Health will be showing a four-part series about the human body that September. Body in Numbers will show viewers how the body functions all through the day and how it adapts and reacts to things humans do.
From the press release, the show sounds like it will be a lot of astounding…
Ken Burns new doc series for PBS
America’s preeminent documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, the guy that made the Civil War must-see viewing, is tough at work on a new project. PBS will broadcast Ken Burns’ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea in Fall 2009. In 12-hours, divided by six episodes, Burns will explore the places lik…
Seven reasons I watch Animal Planet
Growing up as a child of the television generation, I was always mesmerized by any shows having to do with nature or animals. I’d glue myself to the set as Marlin Perkins and Jacques Cousteau took me on brilliant adventures far removed from my own life of domesticated animals.
But I always loved …
Pioneers of Television - DVD review
Pioneers of Television (in stores today) is a pretty big title for a documentary series, particularly one that lasts only four episodes. You wonder, what are they going to mention and what are they going to leave out? that PBS show isn’t the most comprehensive look I’ve seen on each of its subjects,…
YouTube star gets docusoap on Bravo
Bravo is ordering a pilot based on William Sledd’s YouTube video blogs, according to Variety. Sledd, 24, has already hosted a version of his Ask a homosexual Man segment on Bravo’s OutZoneTV website. His vlog focuses on hair, fashion, and in his popular “Ask a homosexual Man” segment he explains the…
Meerkat Manor … the video game?
Would you play a Meerkat Manor video game? I certain would–I would love to play as Flower main her massive group of offspring around. I’m certain the fight scenes would be good too. Those meerkats have some pretty sweet moves.
Well, whether you love Meerkat Manor and you love video games, yo…
Forest Whitaker to produce new gangster series
Have you seen American Gangster? Did you love it? next Forest Whitaker has a show for you.
Whitaker has made a deal with Showtime to executive produce a new series called Mr. Untouchable, detailing the life of Harlem gangster Leroy “Nicky” Barnes.
Currently, Cuba Gooding Jr. is portraying Barnes…
HBO delves into moment Life with new doc
A documentary approximately moment Life that actually takes place within the virtual world has been picked up by HBO for a premiere sometime next year.
The documentary, Molotov’s Dispatches in Search of the Creator: A moment Life Odyssey, was created by multimedia director Douglas Gayeton,…
PBS offering censored and uncensored versions of The War
“Gee whiz, they crazy nut just shot at me! I’d like to give that foolish so-and-so a bop on the noggin, by golly!”
Yeah, I just can’t suppose a World War II veteran talking approximately his experiences and not using a few expletives, and there are increasingly than a few curse words bandied …
Sneak preview of PBS’ The War available online - VIDEO
Like everyone else, I’m looking forward to the end of summer reruns, and for the new fall season to kick off by the next several weeks. In addition to returning shows and new offerings from the networks and studios, I’m additionally fairly interested in Ken Burns’ new documentary for PBS, The …
Spike TV hunts for Monster Sharks
If you’re still jonesing for increasingly shark action after the end of the most recent “Shark Week” on the Discovery Channel, Spike TV might be able to whet (and wet) your appetite with The Hunt For: Monster Sharks, a one-hour special airing September 3 at 10:00 p.m.
The special covers the annu…
Independent Lens returns in October
I told you not towering ago that Wordplay, the documentary about New York Times Crossword editor Will Shortz and his annual crossword competition would air as part of the PBS series Independent Lens on October 16. It turns out it’s additionally the very first documentary of the series’ sixth sea…
HBO to air documentary on Darfur genocide
This December, HBO will air a documentary about the genocide happening in the Darfur region of Sudan. It’s called Sand and Sorrow, and it’s narrated by George Clooney. The special aims to chronicle the history that led up to the current violence and point fingers of blame at the worldly communit…
HBO’s White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki airs tonight
An HBO documentary about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will air that evening at 7:30 p.m.
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, occurring on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, ended the second World War. In an era when many of the folks who fought in –and were affected b…
Explorer: Science of Dogs - an early look
As mentioned before, National Geographic Channel’s Explorer kicks off its new season on August 8. I saw a preview of the August 15 episode, “Science of Dogs,” and it’s quite interesting.
We all know that dogs are a aftereffect of selective breeding, but I had never given thought much about wh…
24×24 Wide Open with Jeff Gordon - DVD Review
When I first got the job as a blogger here at TV Squad, I figured for certain that it was only a matter of instance before I was receiving hundreds of super-cool DVD screeners. I pictured myself with a library of complete season box sets of all my favorite shows — so many of them, in fact, th…
Anthony Bourdain talks travel and food
The reason I like Anthony Bourdain are many. For one, he knows a lot about food but he’s not pretentious about it. Two, he isn’t afraid to try weird foreign foods. And three, he’s really blunt and honest about the state of the food industry and the whole celebrity chef culture. He plus happens to be…
New season of Explorer kicks off in August
National Geographic’s long-running series Explorer returns with a new season on August 8 at 8:00 p.m. The series will once again delve into interesting facets of science, technology and nature.
The special I’m most looking forward to is “Science of Dogs” on August 15. that episode will focus …
What did you think of Victoria Beckham?
I really didn’t want to like Victoria Beckham. In photos, she never smiles. She is always impeccably dressed and frighteningly skinny. She was Posh Spice, but she’s more famous for marrying David Beckham. She always seemed like a bitch, quite frankly. But, I am embarrassed to say that I found he…
