With Tom McDonald's team, we're showing that history is not a timeless academic pursuit, to be rendered into didactic, traditional television.
He saw the potential of deploying the didactic capacity of television to introduce the masses to high art, not to questioning what high art might mean in a democratic age.
Well-meaning and hopelessly bland, "You'll Get Over It," which opens today in New York, instantly drops into the tone of didactic realism that rules most television fiction, drawing easy moral lessons from a scrubbed-up simulacrum of everyday, middle-class life.
And while the show's dialogue sometimes bends toward didactic lecture, its sheer existence on cable television feels like an act of revolution.
Just like the music this is a Technicolor drama, an antidote to the didactic procedurals and melodramas more typical of German television.
"Frankie and Johnny Are Married," which opens today in Manhattan, is very much in the softly didactic, sentimental mode of much of Mr. Pressman's television.
He has long been involved in using media to spread classical music, from his days on live television conducting the New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts to his DVD, television and online didactic programs under the title "Keeping Score" with the San Francisco Symphony.
The didactic tone of her work is most evident in the programs she has made for Pakistani television.
"Before it was very didactic, very theoretical, very German .Yet the strengths of Germany's popular, but rather low-brow, style of television drama could slow efforts to move in a new direction.
We selected two excerpts from the television show House, and one from Gray's Anatomy and featured them in conjunction with a brief didactic presentation of the Kalamazoo consensus statement on doctor-patient communication.
