PBS to Broadcast LuPone-McDonald-Cerveris 'Passion' in March
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Playbill - "Live from Lincoln Center," the Emmy-winning television series that offers live broadcasts of various arts events, continues in March 2005 with Stephen Sondheim's Passion.
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Aidan Quinn completes the cast of the new history play by Richard Nelson, âConversations in Tusculum,â at the Public Theater. Mr. Quinn is to play Brutus alongside Brian Dennehy as Cicero, Joe Grifasi as Syrus, Gloria Reuben as Porcia, David Strathairn as Cassius and Maria Tucci as Servilia. Previews begin Feb. 19.
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PBS has signed a deal to broadcast &quot;Make Way for Noddy,&quot; the British cartoon series based on the classic children&#39;s books by Enid Blyton.
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A new Spanish-language network featuring public-TV fare and other programming with an educational focus will go on the air March 5 in several U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations, the network announced Wednesday.
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A five-part Masterpiece Theater mini- series called âThe Amazing Mrs. Pritchard,â which begins tomorrow night on PBS, is a guilty pleasure.
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Playbill - A televised audition series, the unusual and highly public casting process that helped make London&#39;s new production of The Sound of Music popular, will be used again by producers of the new Canadian production of the classic musical in 2008.
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By FRAZIER MOORE  NEW YORK - A new Spanish-language network featuring public-TV fare and other programming with an educational focus will go on the air March 5 in several U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations, the network announced Wednesday.
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Playbill - The studio cast album of the rock-driven bare - the musical with a flavor and tone somewhere between Rent and Spring Awakening - will be released Oct. 30.
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By Pamela J. Podger pamela.podger@roanoke.com 981-3131  A leading New Testament scholar who bridges the worlds between historical and contemporary Christianity will give a series of lectures and sermons at Roanoke College and area churches in March.
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Public broadcasting will target an underserved audience with the Spanish-language network V-me TV, which launches March 5.
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George Jones will be the subject of an all-star tribute to air Nov. 25 on PBS.
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If youâre not an âAmerican Mastersâ person, you might envision this venerable series â now nearly a quarter-century old â as a gilded slide show pedantically narrated by Alastair Cooke. You would be wrong, and for proof you might check out âOrozco: Man of Fireâ tonight on PBS.
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A handful of new series got the jump on the fall TV season, none as successfully as Ken Burns' epic miniseries about World War II. The first of the seven parts of "The War" attracted 15.5 million viewers to PBS on Sunday, according to Nielsen Media Research.
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The San Francisco Opera plans to make films of its performances available for showings in movie theaters starting in March, the company said Tuesday.
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PageSix - MEL Gibson will release   "The Passion Recut"   on March 11 in theaters &#x2014; a new version with about five minutes of the most violent footage trimmed from his controversial 2004 hit.
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By JUDY BERGERON  Cox Communications will add PBS Kids Sprout to its digital channel lineup starting March 1.  The network will be found on Channel 218.  The Black Family Channel will move to Channel 214.
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Britain's public broadcaster televised "Jerry Springer &#151; The Opera" on Saturday, despite appeals from church groups not to air the expletive-heavy musical.