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You can listen to whatever music you wish in the comfort of your home. But this week, there was disappointment in several sectors from selections made by others on what you can hear when someone else is doing the programming. Not everyone was happy with the Super Bowl halftime selections, Google’s decision to…

The page is turning this weekend from summer into what promises to be a busy fall season, filled with music, football and Lindsay Lohan. There will be no Ed Sheeran, though, at least on the concert stage. This week in music: NASHVILLE BRACES FOR BURNS: The Ken Burns documentary Country Music premieres on PBS September…

The Better Angels Society, the Library of Congress and the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation said Tuesday they have established the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, an award to recognize exemplary accomplishment in historical documentaries. Submission are open now through June 1 for the honor…

Ken Burns could not come to TCA to tout his new documentary for PBS, Country Music, so frequent collaborator/writer/producer Dayton Duncan stood in for him. He described Burns’s process: “We chase every rabbit down every rabbit hole…That’s what reporting is. I’m a reporter who now talks about stories that are 100…

PBS has previewed some of its 2019 launches at the Television Critics Association Press Tour. Here’s the rundown: *** Ken Burns’s Country Music will premiere Sept. 15. The 16-Hour documentary chronicles the history of the genre, from the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills to Hank Williams, Johnny Cash…

Editor’s note: This story originally ran on June 6. Beginning their collaboration with 1990’s The Civil War, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick have since co-directed projects including The War, Baseball and Prohibition. Their latest series, The Vietnam War, was recognized with Emmy nomination…

Ken Burns Presents The Gene: An Intimate History, a three-hour documentary executive produced by Burns, will premiere over three nights in Spring 2020, PBS announced this morning at TCA. Barak Goodman-directed Woodstock will premiere on PBS in 2019, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the historic three-day…

In Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's 10-part documentary series The Vietnam War, 80 witnesses give testimonies about their experiences in the conflict from Americans who fought to protesters, North and South Vietnamese soldiers, and civilians. Burns thought he knew a lot about the war, but when he took on the project, it…

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick have become synonymous with penetrating documentaries in their long careers. In PBS’ The Vietnam War, they tackle one of the most contentious moments of the 20th century in a 10-part, 18-hour series. Burns, on a panel at Deadline’s annual The Contenders Emmys event, calls it “the most…

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s 10-part documentary series, The Vietnam War, takes a sweeping look at the first war that came into America's living rooms.  While many stories have been told about the war, Burns said his series takes a different approach than other projects that come to mind. "It was important for us to…

Geoffrey C. Ward, whose 150 hours of documentary writing on PBS include on Ken Burns’ The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Jazz and most recently WGA-nominated The Vietnam War, will be awarded the WGA East’s Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement. The honor will be bestowed February 11 at the New York ceremony…

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's documentary The Vietnam War averaged 6.7 million viewers across its 10 nights in Live+7 stats, PBS said today. The epic docu enjoyed a reach of just under 34 million. These ratings results mean The Vietnam War is the second-highest-rated Burns/Novick film of the past two decades, following T…