(“Who’s the first guy you ever made it with?” Charles Grodin asks his date in one sketch.). Stream online for free with your TV Provider. Which would be fine, if less than truly satisfying. Everything about it — the harsh lighting, the static camera, the blocky, frequently misspelled chyrons — was meant to evoke the lawless frontier of public access television, where both Galifianakis and his Between Two Ferns co-creator Scott Aukerman (Comedy Bang Bang) got their starts. And in 2012, Mitt Romney enlivened a 2012 presidential debate by declaring, “I love Big Bird,” but “I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS.”, Barack Obama’s re-election prevented Romney from canceling Big Bird, but a different result in 2016 reignited the funding wars. As Galifianakis' concerned assistant Carol, she provides the film with its much needed emotional throughline — without her, the whole affair would soon devolve into glib silliness. It features soul-baring interviews with former skinheads, KKK leaders, neo-Nazis and an extreme fundamentalist, each of whom decided to change when they realized the hurt they were causing. Not for nothing? Piles of coffins from Undercover Undertaker on Channel 4's Dispatches story, Vienna terror attack: Several dead after shootings in Austrian capital, Tyson Fury close to agreeing fight against German heavyweight Agit Kabayel, We're doing what we can, but the responsibility for tackling the virus is personal as well as collective, Jose Mourinho yet to sit down with Dele Alli to discuss midfielder's Tottenham future, Glasgow unable to match Leinster's ruthlessness as visitors' control sets up comfortable win. Episodes were brief: a tight three minutes and change in the early going, and later, once they hit the big time with Very Special Episodes featuring Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, nearly seven. President Nixon and his director of communications, Patrick Buchanan, were so outraged that the president vetoed C.P.B.’s reauthorization bill and wouldn’t sign another until the chairman, president and director of television for C.P.B. Some donors, and thus stations, objected to the raw language and sexual and drug conversations in “American High.”. On “Zoom,” a diverse group of children created high-energy activities for their peers. A bored, distracted, irritable Zach Galifianakis, lobbing questions that were condescending and dismissive at best, and jaw-droppingly insulting at worst. The challenge for PBS going forward will be to sustain that focus. Britain's biggest funeral firm has been exposed by a Channel 4 documentary for treating the dead with a "shocking" level of disrespect. “You have a lot of responsibility, but not ultimate authority,” she said of PBS’s role. But in a country where the vast majority gets their TV through a paid service, that distinction rarely registers. Polis Shutz, the co-founder of the Boulder-based card company Blue Mountain Arts (and also the mother of Colorado Gov. The reporter found Co-operative Funeralcare hub was huge warehouse containing a garage with a fleet of limousines and hearse, storage rooms for dozens of coffins; and a large refrigerated area - that was the mortuary, with rack upon rack of bodies. Every additional element isn't simply there to pad the story — they each lend their own comedic weight, which increases the film's narrative momentum. Clean. After a few more years of political kerfuffles over programming, a deal was struck in the mid-1970s that executives hoped would insulate PBS from administration meddling. "Co-Op" from Documentary Now! Now: It was a pinched version of himself. resigned.”. If the movie simply contented itself with delivering those celebrity interviews — if it offered us nothing but A-listers like Brie Larson and Tiffany Haddish looking pained and discomfited under the barrage of Galifianakis goofery — it would seem like little more than a supercut of the Web series. Dozens of other public stations and school systems nationwide have followed suit. Bill Moyers, who as a special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson had worked on the 1967 Act, remembered the reaction in 2006: “All hell broke loose. Wuhl’s satire flopped, too, taking in less than $9,500 at the box office. It created the blueprint for what TV has become. And Wayne's World. You can browse all documentaries, check out the complete documentary list or top 100 docs. "What about MacGruber? “I think everybody watching this footage will be terribly surprised...Obviously, it makes it commercially more profitable… I think perhaps the funeral directors ought to alert the public as to what would be happening to the deceased.". We Insist: A Timeline Of Protest Music In 2020, Not My Job: Zach Galifianakis Plays A Game Called 'Between Two Derns', NPR's Fall TV Preview: 19 Shows To Watch Out For, Galifianakis' facial reaction to the cape/cloak distinction, Galifianakis' variant pronunciation of the word "ruined," which, weirdly enough, precisely echoes that of John Mulaney's character in the. He saw bodies being slid in and out of the rack just centimetres apart. More than ever, a thriving future for PBS will come down to how it manages an organization for the public good in a commercial environment, according to Marcia Smith, a documentary film producer (“The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution”). Why should the federal government subsidize public broadcasting, conservative politicians and others ask, when the commercial marketplace appears to be doing just fine delivering those types of programs? This allows the nature of their respective relationships to him to grow and change, slightly.