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2020

Nov

TWO DAYS FROM ELECTION DAY IN THE U.S., PBS PRESENTS HUGH LAURIE AS AN IMPERILED POLITICIAN By Mike Hughes

As our political season winds down, we can settle back and watch a different one. This one is fictional and British, and sometimes rather subtle...

2020

Oct

'CITY SO REAL' TELLS THE COMPLEX STORY OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO By Mike Hughes

City So Real is epic in size, scope, and ambition...

2020

Oct

'THE BOOK MAKERS' REASSURES US THAT PHYSICAL BOOKS HAVE A BRIGHT FUTURE By Mike Hughes

Yes, this is an era of Twitter and TikTok and tiny treatises. Thoughts are expressed in 280 characters. But there's a flip side to that...

2020

Oct

THE PERSONALITIES BEHIND 'THE UNDOING' By Mike Hughes

As a director, Susanne Bier has been busy muddying the images of stately Englishmen...

2020

Oct

'THE CONNERS' CONFRONTS CORONAVIRUS By Mike Hughes

When we last saw the Conner family, their lives were in a familiar state of tatters...

2020

Oct

TWO DOCUMENTARIES ON PBS THAT ARE WORTH WATCHING By Mike Hughes

Let's say you decide to turn Tuesday into a documentary film festival. You ignore the rest of TV – Voice, Bachelorette, even the World Series – and watch two PBS films back-to-back...

2020

Oct

THE POLITICIZATION OF A CARTOON FROG By Mike Hughes

Pepe the Frog is a friendly sort – big-eyed, green (as are many frogs), and laid-back. He's also been co-opted by alt-right and white supremacist groups...

2020

Oct

THE REMARKABLE TALENT OF SISTER ROSETTA THARPE By Mike Hughes

It was a time before Elvis or Aretha, a time when "rock" and "soul" were mostly just nouns. It was when Sister Rosetta Tharpe brought a rocking, soulful feel to gospel music...

2020

Oct

'DRIVING WHILE BLACK: RACE, SPACE AND MOBILITY IN AMERICA' FOCUSES ON THE DANGERS BLACK AMERICANS FACED, AND CONTINUE TO FACE, WHILE ON THE ROAD By Mike Hughes

For four centuries, the ability to remain mobile has been crucial to Blacks in America. At first...it was banned...

2020

Oct

ARE THE DAYS OF ANTHOLOGIES BACK? AMC'S 'SOULMATES' THINKS SO By Mike Hughes

In TV's early years, anthologies thrived. They were inconsistent, but we forgot the bad moments and savored the good ones...

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Mike Hughes

Mike Hughes remembers watching a TV show in which a man simply played records. He thinks TV is much better now. With Gannett News Service, his television stories went to 100 newspapers; with TV America, they go to considerably fewer, but he still seems happy. Read more at www.mikehughes.tv

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