From Current.org: PBS’s ongoing negotiations to curb per-hour costs of producing programs and to assert more control over content are increasing friction with its largest producer, Boston’s powerhouse WGBH, according to sources at other stations with knowledge of the situation. | Read more.
From the Boston Globe: I loved the first season of “Downton,” [but] season two has a phoned-in quality, miracles occur where skillful writing might have intervened, subplots wax and wane randomly. But I am an originalist snob. | Read more.
From The Mail: It’s the quintessential British period drama series that has captivated and delighted its American cousins. So no one was surprised when Downton Abbey was praised for its Stateside success with a prestigious Golden Globe. | Read more.
A new “American Experience” documentary homes in on the Wild West legend, through the one known photograph of Billy, using it as visual refrain, recurring the way a hook does in a hit song | Read more.
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Stew White, 76, BU scholar, class of ’58
From AnnArbor.com: Stewart made lifelong friends working at WGBH, where he did a news, sports and weather show. He liked to boast that he had the second highest rated news show in Boston public radio at the time (there were two). | Read more.