{"id":121,"date":"2013-03-27T08:56:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T08:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertacruger.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2013-03-27T08:56:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T08:56:39","slug":"spring-shopping-on-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertacruger.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Spring Shopping on PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s easy to miss great programs on PBS with so many specials and so much umbrella programming, like POV\u2019s documentaries and the American Masters\u2019 profiles. If I don\u2019t stay on stop of the schedule, I invariably regret missing something excellent. Luckily, I happened to catch the Sister Rosetta Tharpe documentary<\/a> \u00a0(I’m convinced the Godmother of Rock’n’Roll\u00a0inspired Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes<\/a>). But I sadly missed the Hullaballoo<\/em> retrospective.<\/p>\n

This weekend features authors Philip Roth <\/a>and Graham Greene, the return of the Call the Midwife,<\/em> and the premiere of Mr. Selfridge<\/em><\/a>. As I said in my \u2018Watch It!\u2019 column in TheMortonReport.com, Jeremy Piven isn\u2019t really a replacement for Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey,<\/em> but he\u2019s perfectly cast in this role.<\/p>\n

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All of Sunday evening\u2019s fare gives a good hit of period dramas\u2014from 1909 to mid-century. The title of my piece is \u201cAri Gold’s newest ‘entourage:’ sex & shopping on ‘Mr. Selfridge’ with Jeremy Piven<\/a>.\u201d Check out how today’s department store\u00a0got started a century ago. All of Sunday evening\u2019s fare gives a good hit of period dramas\u2014from 1909 to mid-century.<\/p>\n

Also recently on PBS, I managed to record Makers: Women Who Made America<\/a>, the must-see documentary about the last 50 years of the women\u2019s movement. A superb chronicle full of\u00a0informative details that reminded me of the changes that have occurred\u2014and still haven\u2019t.\u00a0 If you missed it, watch\u00a0on the\u00a0Makers website along with stories from 175 other women\u2014and counting.<\/p>\n

At the risk of sounding too ponderous, it\u2019s important – as well as\u00a0entertaining. A 30-something friend, who was\u00a0turned off in college by feminism, asked if life was really like Mad Men <\/em>for women in the day. So I let her know that the first woman who ran in the Boston Marathon in 1967 snuck in and was kicked out. It wasn\u2019t until 1972 that Roberta Gibb could officially participate and led the way us. That surprised\u00a0and convinced her.<\/p>\n

And did I mention PBS\u2019s online film festival <\/a>of fantastic shorts? I’ve finally\u00a0signed up on the network\u2019s home page<\/a> for the newsletter to keep up. I’d like to\u00a0know when the Nova episode on how plants talk to each other will air. The DVR is getting full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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