American Masters
Airs: Wednesdays, times vary on WGBH 2
Now in its 23rd season, American Masters continues to offer insightful profiles of important figures in America’s artistic and cultural life. The American Masters film library is one of the most highly honored in television history, with profiles of more than 150 artistic giants. In addition to eight Peabodys, an Oscar and two Grammys, American Masters has won 22 Emmys, including Outstanding Primetime Non-Fiction Series for 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2008.
Sample Programs
Garrison Keillor:
The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
Lake Wobegon — where the women are strong, the men are good looking and all the children are above average — has become America’s collective hometown, visited weekly for the past 40 years on a fictional radio program that creates bona fide nostalgia. With his “Prairie Home Companion,” Keillor became our national philosopher, filling the empty shoes of Will Rogers and Mark Twain, through his running commentary about the human condition and the social politic. With biting wit, a quirky perspective and an uncanny ability to home in on the pulse of America, Keillor’s themes and characters are somehow familiar to us all. For more than a year, AMERICAN MASTERS followed this great raconteur — and his motley crew of actors, musicians and technical staff — as he criss-crossed the country, broadcasting, recording and revealing himself.
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Filmmaker Scott Hicks — director of the 1996 award winning feature film Shine and the recently released No Reservations, for which Philip Glass has written the score — documents an eventful, but apparently typical, year in the career and personal life of the distinguished composer, as he interacts with family, friends and colleagues.
Sample Programs
Garrison Keillor:
The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
Lake Wobegon — where the women are strong, the men are good looking and all the children are above average — has become America’s collective hometown, visited weekly for the past 40 years on a fictional radio program that creates bona fide nostalgia. With his “Prairie Home Companion,” Keillor became our national philosopher, filling the empty shoes of Will Rogers and Mark Twain, through his running commentary about the human condition and the social politic. With biting wit, a quirky perspective and an uncanny ability to home in on the pulse of America, Keillor’s themes and characters are somehow familiar to us all. For more than a year, AMERICAN MASTERS followed this great raconteur — and his motley crew of actors, musicians and technical staff — as he criss-crossed the country, broadcasting, recording and revealing himself.
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Filmmaker Scott Hicks — director of the 1996 award winning feature film Shine and the recently released No Reservations, for which Philip Glass has written the score — documents an eventful, but apparently typical, year in the career and personal life of the distinguished composer, as he interacts with family, friends and colleagues.
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