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AMENDED after NATAS update: PBS leads the nominations for the 42nd annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, as it usually does, this year scoring 52 noms over last year’s 48. Vice News Tonight, which topped all programs with 16 noms in 2020, equaled that number this year but is tied with CBS’ 60 Minutes. CNN again runs…

PBS’ Frontline has acquired a 9/11 documentary from Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed after the film was originally commissioned by UK broadcaster Channel 4. In the Shadow of 9/11 tells the story of the so-called ‘Liberty City Seven’ — a group of young Black men accused of assisting Al Qaeda in a plot to blow up…

Many Americans probably think they know all there is to know about Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, which is what makes PBS The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden so fascinating. Debuting on Tuesday, The Frontline special presents the lives of Biden and Trump in ways that may surprise people. The focus is on moments…

PBS leads the nominations for the 41st annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, as it usually does, scoring 48 noms to top its closest rival by even more than last year. But there’s a shakeup for the No. 2 spot among networks and platforms as CNN doubled its 2019 noms haul to 30. Read the full list of nominees in 53…

PBS once again is planning another Frontline this cycle devoted to profiling the two presidential candidates, to the point where filmmaker Michael Kirk says that it will reveal enough so viewers “will feel that you know them anew in a kind of special new way.” The Choice 2020: Trump Vs. Biden, a two-hour documentary…

EXCLUSIVE: PBS’ investigative documentary series Frontline has acquired the Sundance documentary A Thousand Cuts directed by award-winning filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz. The timely documentary takes a look at the key players in the escalating war between press and government in the Philippines and the ongoing threat…

Themes of racial and social injustice, war, the current world and even an upside-down one are key in the winners of the 2020 Peabody Awards, which on Wednesday unveiled its annual list of the 30 most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media in 2019. PBS with its documentary series PO…

PBS ended its day Friday at the TCA Winter Press Tour with Frontline's Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos — and if you've been thinking about your own Amazon addiction, this program will make you think more than twice. Frontline producer James Jacoby was blunt in his assessment of the company, "There's a…

In the documentary, On the President’s Orders, audiences are given an up-close and personal into the ruthless horror of the “drug war” in the Philippines. Under President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign against drug dealers and suspected users, the documentary directed by James Jones and Olivier Sarbil follows the police…

EXCLUSIVE: UK-U.S. documentary On The President’s Orders, which chronicles Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s violent ‘war on drugs’, is to be used as evidence by the International Criminal Court (ICC) as part of its ongoing investigation into the government-sanctioned killings. The film’s Emmy-winning…

If you were thinking of quitting social media, the upcoming Frontline film The Facebook Dilemma on PBS might just push you over the edge, judging by the ominous insights shared at a panel this afternoon at TCA summer press tour. Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor and venture capitalist, recalled reaching out to…

Acclaimed filmmaker Steve James has built his reputation primarily on the strength of Chicago-oriented documentaries, among them Hoop Dreams (1994), The Interrupters (2011) and Life Itself (2014). But he finds himself in the Oscar race this year with a story that took him from the Second City to the first. In Abacus: S…