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   Mitt Romney Claims He'll Cut Off Funding for PBS, Says He Wants Advertisements on 'Sesame Street' (Video)

   5:56 pm 12/28/2011

   • by Paul Bond

   "We're not going to kill Big Bird," the GOP presidential candidate told supporters in Iowa, who also added that he'll "stop certain programs."Read more

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   BBC America's 'Doctor Who,' ABC's 'Modern Family' Top iTunes Year-End TV List

   9:22 am 12/8/2011

   • by Jethro Nededog

   The digital retailer has revealed its customers' top television shows and staff picks for the year.Read more

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   Fanhattan Adds Lifetime, PBS, Sony's Crackle to Content Discovery Service

   8:05 am 12/2/2011

   • by Georg Szalai

   The company also allows users to find entertainment across such digital media services as Netflix, Hulu Plus and iTunes.Read more

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   World AIDS Day: How the TV Networks Are Covering

   12:11 pm 12/1/2011

   • by Jethro Nededog

   Ellen DeGeneres, Showtime, and Logo, among others, are dedicating airtime to the annual global health day.Read more

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   Woody Allen Doc Reveals Bright Side to Public Affair: It Made Him Less 'Bland' (Video)

   3:30 pm 11/22/2011

   • by Michael O'Connell

   The director opened up about his scandalous departure from Mia Farrow in the '90s, when he left the actress for her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi.Read more

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   'Glee's' Idina Menzel on Parenthood, Being Pigeonholed and Her PBS TV Special

   5:02 am 11/21/2011

   • by Etan Vlessing

   The actress tells THR about first receiving the script for the Fox show, "I was having a baby, I was really fat and I get a script for 'Glee'." Read more

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   Woody Allen - A Documentary: TV Review

   1:00 pm 11/17/2011

   • by Tim Goodman

   Director Robert Weide gets PBS' "American Masters" treatment with a two-part documentary following Allen's five decades as a filmmaker.Read more

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   Amazon.com Adds More PBS Content, Streaming Titles Reach 12,000

   9:56 am 10/19/2011

   • by Michael O'Connell

   A new licensing deal doubles the numbers of videos originally available when streaming service Amazon Prime launched in 2005.Read more

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   'Downton Abbey' Costumes Are Often Recycled From Past Period Films

   2:11 pm 9/27/2011

   • by Elizabeth Snead

   Costume designer Susannah Buxton says pieces on the British series were previously worn by Helena Bonham Carter and Catherine Zeta-Jones.Read more

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    Ken Burns' 'Prohibition' to Debut on iPhone and iPad First

    5:34 pm 9/21/2011

    • by THR Staff

    The documentary filmmaker's latest effort will not see its first airing on PBS.Read more

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