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More Fallout from the Car Industry: Ken Burns


by Jerome Weeks 10 Mar 2009 8:20 AM

After 22 years of funding Ken Burns’ Emmy Award-winning PBS documentaries,  General Motors is withdrawing its support. GM began underwriting Burns’ work with The Civil Wars and continued through his newest, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, a six-parter that will air this fall. But the need to cutback during the car company’s current crisis […]
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After 22 years of funding Ken Burns’ Emmy Award-winning PBS documentaries,  General Motors is withdrawing its support. GM began underwriting Burns’ work with The Civil Wars and continued through his newest, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, a six-parter that will air this fall. But the need to cutback during the car company’s current crisis doomed the funding.

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About Jerome Weeks

Jerome Weeks is the Senior Arts Reporter/Producer for KERA. Previously at The Dallas Morning News, he was the book columnist for 10 years and the drama critic for 10 years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines. View more about Jerome Weeks.

COMMENTS

  • Certainly Ken Burns and PBS will find alternate funding. I’ve just finished a review of The Civil War – A Film by Ken Burns for Amazon, and I’ve watched all of his documentaries. He is terrific and another company not experiencing the problems of GM will pick him up.