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Martha Stewart, TV host, author and founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, will give American home cooks a culinary master class on a new weekly PBS television show debuting this fall. Martha […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even the landed gentry of “Downton Abbey” would be impressed: A philanthropist is giving $1 million to PBS’ “Masterpiece,” U.S. home of the British upstairs-downstairs drama […]

Under intense public pressure from independent documentary filmmakers, including a Twitter campaign, PBS on Thursday agreed to find a new home next season for the award-winning film series Independent Lens and POV.

The online television service has filed a second countersuit against major broadcasters that want to stop it from retransmitting their programming. The new suit is against News Corp.’s Fox, the Public Broadcasting Service, Univision Communications and New York’s WPIX and WNET.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS is feeding the addiction of “Downton Abbey” fans with an online trivia graphic. Among the tidbits: Jim Carter, who plays dignified butler Carson, takes part […]

PBS’s ongoing negotiations to curb per-hour costs of producing programs and to assert more control over content are increasing friction with its largest producer, Boston’s powerhouse WGBH, according to sources at other stations with knowledge of the situation.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Benedict Cumberbatch is shrugging off British newspaper criticism of his female co-star’s nude scene in TV’s latest season of “Sherlock.” It may be an effort to […]

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — PBS is giving the genteel “Antiques Roadshow” a fierce partner with “Market Wars,” an antiques-hunt reality competition show. PBS announced Wednesday that the 20-episode series from […]

PBS President Paula Kerger said Wednesday that she recognizes the United States has to make tough budget decisions but defended PBS as an effective public-private partnership. She said viewers should oppose Mitt Romney’s call to end funding of the noncommercial programmer.

The success of the British drama Downton Abbey prompted the organization to change its programming and marketing tactics, and aim at viewers more attuned to HBO and Showtime.

A two-part examination of Bill Clinton’s presidency, a look at some celebrity family trees by Louis Gates and a series on American infrastructure hosted by a former “Survivor” contestant are all part of PBS’s new spring schedule.

NEW YORK (AP) — NPR’s “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me” is coming to TV for the first time. The comedic radio quiz show will debut on BBC America with […]

In a modern twist to a TV pledge drive, PBS ran a Facebook “Like Drive” last week that rewarded fans with exclusive video clips for helping promote some of PBS’s most beloved people and shows. The drive helped land more than 18,000 in all for the week, stopping just short of 950,000 total likes for the page.

There was a time — say, 10-15 years ago — when the value of PBS was questionable. Cable networks were making inroads on what was traditionally PBS turf with A&E and Bravo and Trio swiping arts programs, including British costume dramas that in the past would have turned up on Masterpiece Theatre. But in the years since, Trio became Sleuth while A&E and Bravo dropped any pretense of airing arts shows, ceding the genre back to PBS.

Prohibition, a new three-part documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, will debut on PBS’s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch apps before its television premiere.

Shooting a documentary on the early innovators of television seemed natural to former WTMJ Milwaukee photographer Steve Boettcher (left) and Mike Trinklein, because they wanted to get the recollections of the medium’s trailblazers recorded while those giants were still around. Financed with a credit card, Pioneers of Television found a home on PBS and the original hour program did well enough that it grew into a four-show series, followed by another four episodes. Both received Emmy nominations, with the second series up for consideration this year.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The PBS program “Masterpiece” is marking its 40th year in style. “Masterpiece” executive producer Rebecca Eaton announced that a national corporate sponsor, a luxury cruise […]

NEW YORK (AP) — An Oklahoma man has more than a million reasons to be happy he brought his collection of Chinese rhinoceros horned cups to be appraised by experts […]

PBS is eliminating 13 current staff positions and eight vacancies, PBS President Paula Kerger said in a letter to the system Wednesday.

PBS has done a great job recalling the Pioneers of Television, so this fall the focus shifts to looking at more recent TV shows. America In Primetime will look at the shows and characters that have “both reflected and shaped our national character.” The four-part series airs 8-9 p.m. Sundays from Oct. 30 to Nov. 20.

Puerto Rico’s government-controlled WIPR dropped its PBS membership on July 1 — the fourth member station to quit this year. Puerto Rico TV, which produces and broadcasts mostly in Spanish, carried only the English versions of PBS Kids programs. Pedro Rua, WIPR’s EVP, said WIPR and PBS negotiated for about a year but could not reach an agreement that would retain the station as a member.

PBS last week gave its blessing to WUCF Orlando, which will start July 1 and replace WMFE as Central Florida’s primary public television channel.

PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network’s website, posting a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand, and a group that claimed responsibility for the hacking complained about a recent Frontline investigative news program on WikiLeaks.

PBS will begin breaking into programs with underwriting and promo spots four times per hour on an experimental basis beginning this fall in an effort to keep viewers tuned in. The move could be controversial for the network, which has traditionally prided itself on offering uninterrupted programming over its 40-year history.