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• 'Mel Brooks: Make a Noise' review: What's not to like?

  DOCUMENTARY "Mel Brooks : Make a Noise" WHEN | WHERE Monday night at 9 on WNET /13 WHAT IT'S ABOUT Not shy by disposition, Mel Brooks has usually turned away requests to make films about him, until now. This "American Masters" portrait, produced by Robert   Read more »

• 'Philip Roth: Unmasked' review: A bit sanitized

  SHOW " Philip Roth : Unmasked" WHEN | WHERE Premieres at 9 p.m. Friday on WNET /13 WHAT IT'S ABOUT This documentary for PBS ' "American Masters" series, written and directed by William Karel, profiles author Philip Roth , who turned 80 this month and is widely   Read more »

• 'Downton Abbey' season finale review: Beautiful

  SERIES "Downton Abbey" WHEN | WHERE Season finale Sunday at 9 p.m. on WNET /13 WHAT IT'S ABOUT In the third season finale -- called simply the " Christmas Special" when it aired last year in the U.K. -- the Crawleys head to Duneagle Castle in Scotland, seat   Read more »

Around the web

• Public TV Tried To Placate David Koch

  the last word. “They tried to undercut the credibility of the film, and I had no opportunity to defend it,” he said. Moreover, WNET replaced the introduction to “Park Avenue,” which was delivered by the actor Stanley Tucci, with one calling the film “controversial” 5/20/13 from Crooks and Liars Read more »

• As Koch Industries Ramps Up Attack On ‘Left-Leaning’ Media, WNET Dumps David Koch From Board

  anti-science ideology and the public interest with has come under attention in recent months. After Superstorm Sandy struck, WNET’s Charlie Rose and Bill Moyers ran shows on the tragic consequences and threat of greenhouse pollution for the New York region. 5/20/13 from Think Progress Read more »

• The Koch Brothers' Foray into Media Has Already Been a Success

  sit on a panel to discuss the film after it aired. Koch doesn't make many public appearances, so he offered a written response. WNET aired a statement from Koch Industries after the film aired, which Mayer describes as an unprecedented move "like appending 5/20/13 from The Atlantic Read more »

• PBS's Koch Problem: How a Major Right-Wing Funder Undercut Key Films

  film did air but see what surrounded it. Problem: It partly focused on the Koch Brothers, with David Koch a major WNET funder. So WNET bent over backwards to give him a chance to response even before the doc aired, and also scheduled a roundtable to discuss 5/20/13 from The Nation Read more »

• Charlie Rose Expands PBS Program to Weekends

  p.m. in July, the public broadcaster announced Monday. The half-hour version of his PBS interview program produced out of Thirteen/WNET in New York since 1991, will be a combination of new and re-purposed material. "PBS is my first broadcast home and I’m excited 5/20/13 from Hollywood Reporter Read more »