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Move over, Shark Week! The toothy terrors of the oceans have been hogging the spotlight in the public imagination for far too long, thanks to a marketing genius in Discovery Channel's group hitting upon the brilliant concept in the late 1990s. However, Discovery is now a zombie network,
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June is a somewhat awkward month on PBS for several reasons. As an American broadcast station that submits series for awards consideration, June marks the beginning of the new TV year, since the Emmys eligibility calendar typically ends on May 31. However, as a public broadcaster with an educational mission,
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Walking with Dinosaurs was an ambitious series when it premiered on the BBC in 1999; at the time, Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) was still a new technology, and creating lifelike dinosaurs was the province of big-budget blockbusters like Jurassic Park, not public television. However, the show took the U.K.
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Those old enough to remember the last century may recall 1999's Walking with Dinosaurs and the controversy surrounding its release. An early instance of using what was at the time state-of-the-art computerized graphic images (CGI) to illustrate scientific discoveries, Walking with Dinosaurs was derided as trash and the
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It's been a quarter century since the BBC originally commissioned Walking with Dinosaurs, a factual documentary series using 1990s-era state-of-the-art CGI to bring the giant creatures to life. At the time, some protested that the computer-generated creatures were not real; therefore, their "adventures" (presented in the