With 2010-11 marking its 38th season on PBS, GREAT PERFORMANCES brings the best in the performing arts from across America and around the world to a US television audience. The only continuing primetime performance showcase on American television, GREAT PERFORMANCES presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries. With its programs garnering 64 Emmy Awards and four George Foster Peabody Awards, the series has received every major television honor.
INDEPENDENT LENS is television’s largest showcase of independent documentary film. Each week the award-winning series delivers engaging documentaries crafted by the industry’s boldest filmmakers. Independent Lens films have won 19 Emmy Awards, 16 Peabody Awards, five duPont-Columbia University Awards, and have received nine Academy Award nominations. Independent Lens won the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017 International Documentary Association (IDA) Award for Best Continuing Series.
During its forty-year storied history — the longest-running prime time drama in American television — MASTERPIECE has remained steadfast in our commitment to bring the best in literature-based drama, mysteries filled with eclectic characters, and groundbreaking contemporary works.
In winter and spring, MASTERPIECE CLASSIC features beloved signature period dramas like Bleak House, Jane Eyre, and The Complete Jane Austen. In summer, MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! presents the best British mysteries such as Inspector Lewis and Miss Marple. And in fall, MASTERPIECE CONTEMPORARY features dramas set in today's world such as Place Of Execution, the acclaimed Collision, and the award-winning Endgame.
Because of the high production costs of the series, Masterpiece programs come from partners who can provide the majority of the financing for any given project.
Produced by THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG, NATURE is now in its 29th season on PBS. Over more than a quarter-century, NATURE has brought the beauty and wonder of the natural world into American homes, becoming in the process the benchmark of natural history programs on American television. The series has won more than 600 honors from the television industry, the international wildlife film community, parent groups, and environmental organizations – including 10 Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, and the first honor ever given to a program by the Sierra Club.
NOVA is the highest rated science series on television and the most watched documentary series on public television. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over.
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