Author Archive for Bill Knight

Arts Alerts: Screens

Watch for British bits ‘Best Medicine’ on Fox and ‘The Game’ on Britbox; Al Pacino in ‘Deadman’s Wire’ and Jodie Foster in ‘A Private Life’ as well as the First Lady in ‘Melania’ hit theaters; Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are in ‘The Rip’ on Netflix and ‘Game of Thrones’ spinoff ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ is on HBO Max

WCBU looking OK, plans to sound better

Local fundraising helping public media stop some of the initial gaps created by losing federal funds pulled by the GOP; a one-time $36.5 million commitment to public media from a group of charitable donors has created some stability. New transmittor in the works

Arts Alerts: Screens — check out what’s streaming, on TV and in theaters this December

“Cover-Up” is about investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh, who won the Pulitzer for reporting on the My Lai massacre, and “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” is on Netflix. “The First Snow of Fraggle Rock” is on Apple TV+. “Percy Jackson & The Olympiads in a Sea of Monsters” is featured on Disney+, “Avatar: Fire and Ash” and Neil Diamond film “Song Sung Blue” in theaters