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Ken Burns' National Park Tour

Ken Burns appeared at the TV critics’ press tour in Pasadena to take questions about his new 12-hour documentary, The National Parks, debuting Sept. 27.  Yep. Twelve hours. About parks. OK, it’s easy to make jokes about Ken Burns’ documentaries, which build up wars and sports and campgrounds alike into massive Rocky Mountains of ennobled [...]

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Sesame Street Gets a Word from the Letter O

Barack Obama will basically cut a video for anyone. He did a promo spot for Conan O’Brien. Here at TV critics’ press tour, he did a intro clip (which I missed) for the session on George Lopez’s new talk show. And this morning, the President opened the PBS session on Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary. I [...]