PBS announces Sept. 19 premiere for Ken Burns’ Muhammad Ali film, virtual events with The Undefeated
Burns will join ESPN's The Undefeated for a series of conversations about sports and race in America.
Burns will join ESPN's The Undefeated for a series of conversations about sports and race in America.
According to Hehir, the situations he faced vs. Burns answering to PBS are not the same.
"I find it in the opposite direction of where we need to be going. ...If you are there influencing the very fact of it getting made it means certain aspects that you don't necessarily want in aren't going to be in, period."
"In the absence of many of our favorite sports, I've asked PBS, that's the Public Broadcasting Service, to stream my film about America's pastime, Baseball, for free, at PBS.org and all PBS digital platforms. Stay healthy, and let's look after each other. Play ball."
The documentary will premiere on PBS in 2021.
Celebrated documentarian Ken Burns (“The Civil War,” “The War,” the upcoming “The Vietnam War”) has said that he...