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PBS is launching its British channel, PBS America, on Freeview, meaning it will be available in all homes across the UK for the first time since debuting in 2011. PBS America will be available on channel 91 on the Freeview TV guide, taking it into 6M more homes. It builds on existing carriage deals PBS has with Sky…

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 nominations in four Documentary/Nonfiction ca…

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…

"We try super-hard not to put our thumbs on the scale to promote an agenda, political or otherwise," Ken Burns said of his 10-part documentary series The Vietnam War,  which he made with producing partner Lynn Novick, featuring testimony from about 80 witnesses including Americans who fought in the war, those who…

PBS Fall 2017 lineup has a mix of hard-hitting journalism, history, family trees, Great Performances, and a dramatic slate of Masterpiece dramas. The broadcaster announced its full fall schedule with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s previously announced docuseries The Vietnam War taking the spotlight. The 10-part epic…

Hulu/MGM’s The Handmaid’s Tale and National Geographic’s Genius are among the big-name highlights of this year’s Tribeca TV, the second annual television slate of the Tribeca Film Festival. Fifteen shows, including five series premieres, four season premieres and a sneak peek at PBS’ Ken Burns-Lynn Novick docu-series T…

“Are you prepared for Donald Trump tweets saying this is fake news?” Ken Burns got asked right off the bat during the TCA Q&A to discuss his latest PBS documentary The Vietnam War. The project having been 10 years in the making, did he think the docu would “land at this point in time when we are so divided,” asked a…