The honors will be presented on Sept. 26 with Larry King receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. Here's how the national award nominations stack up: The Nominations: 32nd News & Documentary Emmy Awards CBS (34) 60 Minutes (23); The Sunday Morning (7); CBS Evening News with Katie Couric (4) PBS (32) Pov (12); Frontline (5); Independent Lens (4); Nature (2); Nova (2); PBS NewsHour (2); Bill Moyers Journal (1); Frontline Fall Image Campaign (1); Independent Lens: Deep Down A Story From the Heart of Coal Country (1); The New Recruits (1); Washington Week (1) NBC (19) Dateline (6); NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams (6); Education Nation (2); Dateline NBC: Shadows & Light (1); Decision 2010 (1); Meet the Press with David Gregory (1); NBC News/MSNBC (1); Today (1) National Geographic Channel (15) Explorer (4); Great Migrations (3); Restrepo: Afghan Outpost (3); A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman (1); How the Earth Changed History (1); Iceland Volcano Eruption (1); National Geographic Magazine online (1); Witness: Katrina (1) ABC (12) 20/20 (2); Boston Med (2); ABC News Special Events (1); ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (1); ABC World News,...
- 7/18/2011
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
How The Earth Changed History is that rarest of documentaries: it has an actual, profound thesis at its center, and it doesn’t seem to be the slightest bit aware of it. Ostensibly, this is a series about how geographic features and natural phenomena influenced social migrations and technological innovations, but at its core, it has something very sharp to say about the way that people interact with the world around them. The moments where this comes out, unfortunately, are few and far between, and the significance itself is almost lost in a work that comes across largely as anecdotal rather than penetrating.
History is broken up into five different hour long chapters, each with a focus on a different natural element, and all of them are hosted by Iain Stewart, whose cheerful and inviting demeanor keeps them from ever treading into dull, staid territory (though the belaboring of points...
History is broken up into five different hour long chapters, each with a focus on a different natural element, and all of them are hosted by Iain Stewart, whose cheerful and inviting demeanor keeps them from ever treading into dull, staid territory (though the belaboring of points...
- 7/7/2010
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Fred Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
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After a pair of, to be blunt, piss-poor films from Michael Bay, the Transformers franchise has finally been beautifully redeemed in video game form with Transformers: War For Cybertron (Activision, PS3-$59.99 Srp, Xbox-$59.99 Srp), which brings players to the frontlines of the struggle between the Autobots and Decepticons on their home planet, that instantly brings players back to the franchise’s 80’s glory. Spinning...
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After a pair of, to be blunt, piss-poor films from Michael Bay, the Transformers franchise has finally been beautifully redeemed in video game form with Transformers: War For Cybertron (Activision, PS3-$59.99 Srp, Xbox-$59.99 Srp), which brings players to the frontlines of the struggle between the Autobots and Decepticons on their home planet, that instantly brings players back to the franchise’s 80’s glory. Spinning...
- 7/2/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
The full list of winners at the British Academy Television Craft Awards, held yesterday at the London Hilton on Park Lane, is as follows: Breakthrough Talent
Ed Hime - writer (Skins)
Matt Rudge - director/producer (The Autistic Me)
Jessie Versluys - director (The Hospital/Katie: My Beautiful Face) - Winner!
Ed Wardle - producer (Alone In The Wild) Costume Design
Joey Attawia - An Englishman In New York
Jenny Beavan - Cranford
James Keast - Desperate Romantics
Natalie Ward - Red Riding 1974 - Winner! Director: Factual
Patrick Forbes - The Force - Winner!
Annabel Gillings - How Earth Made Us (Water)
Nick Read - The Slumdog Children of Mumbai
Dan Reed - Terror In Mumbai (Dispatches) Director: Fiction
Yann Demange - Criminal Justice
James (more)...
Ed Hime - writer (Skins)
Matt Rudge - director/producer (The Autistic Me)
Jessie Versluys - director (The Hospital/Katie: My Beautiful Face) - Winner!
Ed Wardle - producer (Alone In The Wild) Costume Design
Joey Attawia - An Englishman In New York
Jenny Beavan - Cranford
James Keast - Desperate Romantics
Natalie Ward - Red Riding 1974 - Winner! Director: Factual
Patrick Forbes - The Force - Winner!
Annabel Gillings - How Earth Made Us (Water)
Nick Read - The Slumdog Children of Mumbai
Dan Reed - Terror In Mumbai (Dispatches) Director: Fiction
Yann Demange - Criminal Justice
James (more)...
- 5/24/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
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