Beginning tonight, (Sunday, September 17) TVWW's Alex Strachan will file daily previews of the new nightly Ken Burns documentary, The Vietnam War. This first of the 10-episode series opens with a look back at the pre-war conditions in the former "French Indochina"...

2017

Sep

KEN BURNS IN PRIVATE CONVERSATION: HOW ALL ROADS LED TO ‘THE VIETNAM WAR’ By Alex Strachan

Ken Burns was nine-years-old when he first heard the word Vietnam, and it meant nothing to him. That is to say, it meant about as much to him as North Korea might to an average nine-year-old today...

2017

Sep

STEPHEN COLBERT, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE POISED TO STEAL THE SHOW AT 69TH EMMYS By Alex Strachan

The 2017 Emmy Awards will be here before you know it, on a wind and a prayer...

2017

Sep

'THE VIETNAM WAR' SOUNDTRACK: ‘IT’S AN INVISIBLE ART.’ By Alex Strachan

Ken Burns knew all along that he would use as many appropriate songs of the era as he could snag the rights for on a PBS budget, but the issue of the background music was a thorny issue...

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