Making it on public TV
Dear Doc Doctor: How can I get my work onto public television? There are many doors into the labyrinthine world…
Television
Hell or High Water
In 1998, I joined the production team of Julie Gustafson’s Desire, a documentary about teenage girls from three diverse New…
The BBC Bully
Nick Fraser’s career has been a constant battle between “what I will and won’t do for television,” says the 57-year-old…
Room for INPUT
The International Public Television (INPUT) conference was hosted this year by Independent Television Service (ITVS). Held in a different country…
Big Bird and Beyond
Lois Vossen thinks she has the best job in the world. She works 60 hours a week, and much of…
Q/A: Tamara E. Robinson
Rebecca Carroll: Where are we with public television? What do people—both those who are watching and not watching—need to know…
How much should I hustle?
Dear Doc Doctor: My film projects and ideas are well-suited for public television. But as an independent filmmaker I can’t…
National Center for Outreach
Public television stations have always been dedicated to airing programs that help their communities. But after the programs have aired,…
PBS’s Double Bind
There’s a phenomenon afoot that is increasingly evident this year—at Sundance, Real Screen, and beyond. Let’s call it producer fatigue;…