Canadian television director Paul Nadler was in a coma for six weeks in 1994. He wasn’t expected to walk again, talk again, at times even to live. But he defied expectations, regaining many of his motor and cognitive skills during…
Random observations and opinions from the CBS affiliates convention last week in Las Vegas: CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith, CBS Corp.’s fast-rising, fast-talking new-media star, may finally be the casually dressed, running-shoe’d dude who can get the network and its…
Verklin/Kanner Book Takes a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Constantly Changing Landscape of Media Advertising
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Schankowitz Builds Online Repository of Self-Help Shorts
The producers list for “Why We Fight,” the Peabody-winning documentary on the United States military-industrial complex, runs to more than a dozen organizations, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to the United Kingdom’s BBC, Estonia’s ETV and numerous European broadcasters. Conspicuously…
In IFC’s documentary short series “Beyond Borders: Personal Stories From a Small Planet,” 10-year-old Mohamed Sidibay talks about how he escaped life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. In the film he’s a fourth-grader who likes to play soccer,…
Exec Shift Should Not Affect This Upfront
Documentaries are enjoying a renaissance these days, at least on cable and in theatrical release, but that wasn’t the case a few years back in Great Britain when the concept of the Web site FourDocs (www.channel4.com/fourdocs) was formed. There was…
I am not thrilled by the politically controlled Federal Communications Commission and the rules that it has either implemented or wishes to have available to implement. I support the notion instilled in me as a child, which I have modified…