In the season of large-scale fantasy entertainment, documentaries may be ideal counterprogramming.
I do awareness-raising through music, entertainment, documentaries and I'm organising an international albinism event to try washing away the myth.
The Peabody Awards are one of the oldest media awards in the United States, and recognize scripted entertainment, documentaries, radio programs, podcasts, individuals, websites, institutions and all kinds of news programming.
But the channel will have to further that reputation without homegrown drama, which has been axed, with big cuts to its history, entertainment, documentary and science programming as part of the BBC's "delivering quality first" savings enforced after the licence fee was frozen in 2010.
The weekdays will be regimented: Tuesdays, factual entertainment; Wednesdays, documentaries; Thursdays, drama and comedy under "Playhouse Presents" in themed clusters of four.
The March of Verite With "Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment," the Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick has created the "That's Entertainment" of documentaries -- an all-star tribute, generously illustrated with clips and interviews, to the 1960's movement that changed the face of nonfiction filmmaking.
While they're in the process of striking deals with the highest bidder, there will also be nothing to stop ISPs from throttling, blocking or otherwise monkeying with content considered to be outside the 'mainstream' of entertainment, from documentaries to erotic films.
He believes the time is ripe for entertainment-style documentaries, and that a distributor will pick up the film.
"In recent years the lines between entertainment and documentary have been blurred," he says, "and that's a mistake.
Ernst's real passion, and his legacy, is not news but, rather, entertainment and documentary programming, perhaps a defense mechanism honed long ago: why fuss over what you can't possibly control?
Walsh: In 1993, James summoned me to Lightstorm Entertainment, his documentary film company in Malibu, Calif.
