kfw Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Good news! Monday, December 29: The Season 3 premiere features a production of the John Adams opera "Doctor Atomic," about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Gerald Finley) and the testing of the first atomic bomb in 1945 New Mexico. Kitty Oppenheimer: Sasha Cooke. I hope opera fans here are also enjoying tonight's Independent Lens feature on the making of this opera. Link to comment
dirac Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Thank you for the heads up, kfw. I hadn't heard about the Independent Lens broadcast and will look for it. Link to comment
SandyMcKean Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Unfortunately, that documentary ("Wonders are Many") does not seem to be showing on PBS here in Seattle. Our PBS station may have a lot of money problems because it seems they are doing little but "encore" broadcasts. Link to comment
dirac Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 I'm not sure if it was shown in my area or not - Comcast's services failed entirely for a week and so no broadcast teevee in our house. Did anyone else happen to catch it? Link to comment
sandik Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Unfortunately, that documentary ("Wonders are Many") does not seem to be showing on PBS here in Seattle. Our PBS station may have a lot of money problems because it seems they are doing little but "encore" broadcasts. Yes, they do seem to be quite frugal in their scheduling, don't they? If I see that Roy Orbison special one more time, I'm going to reconsider my membership fees. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Unfortunately, that documentary ("Wonders are Many") does not seem to be showing on PBS here in Seattle. Our PBS station may have a lot of money problems because it seems they are doing little but "encore" broadcasts. Yes, they do seem to be quite frugal in their scheduling, don't they? If I see that Roy Orbison special one more time, I'm going to reconsider my membership fees. There doesn't seem to be a great deal of enthusiasm for Dr. Atomic among some PBS affiliates. KCTS Seattle will delay its airing until January 25, and my other PBS affiliate, WGBH Boston, is burying it with a middle-of-the-night showing on its second channel (which I don't receive). I don't know how widespread this tendency is. Link to comment
kfw Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 There doesn't seem to be a great deal of enthusiasm for Dr. Atomic among some PBS affiliates. KCTS Seattle will delay its airing until January 25, and my other PBS affiliate, WGBH Boston, is burying it with a middle-of-the-night showing on its second channel (which I don't receive). I don't know how widespread this tendency is. Wonder of wonders then that we're getting it here in central Virginia in prime time as scheduled. Link to comment
dirac Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Doctor Atomic was broadcast in the Bay Area this week. I missed it, natch. Thank goodness PBS repeats everything sooner or later. Link to comment
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