After all, how many nonprofits wanted to run documentaries about Presidential candidates, using relatively obscure technologies, just before elections?
If CNN president Jeff Zucker could get his wish, he'd just run documentaries in the slot each night.
In other words, instead of waiting for the truth in hit-and-run documentary fashion, Nair wanted to organize it in a fictional way.
The rest is history – it was to become the longest running documentary series ever.
BBC Three and BBC Four (a highbrow channel that runs documentaries about Russian cellists and the British electricity network) will be pruned especially stringently.Indeed, the BBC seems to be retreating from the goal of reaching everyone.
Mr. Childers's favorite channels are Korean music show OhMyTrance (www.ohmytrance.com), and Rant TV (www.ranttv.com), which runs documentaries of dumpster diving and radical political talk along with instructions on how to hot-rod a sports car illegally.
For CCTV 5 and its sister channels, that has meant running documentaries about the Olympics, profiles of Chinese and foreign athletes and even primers on sports like fencing and sailing.
We were appalled to hear of his dismissal, but it only served to underscore the truth of what he wrote after Turkey's television networks ran documentaries — including one about penguins — instead of covering the civil unrest that all residents of Istanbul could see and hear outside their windows.
CBS has rights to run the documentary a second time.
On some Fridays, it has run a documentary about crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's government.
During that period, Citizens United, a nonprofit corporation, had wanted to run a documentary, as a cable video on demand, called "Hillary: The Movie," which was critical of Hillary Clinton.
