This page includes additional programs submitted since Current published the Pipeline08 list Nov. 5. These programs also have been integrated into the main list.
As with the full list, producers and their distributors supplied most of the information below. Please direct inquiries about specific programs to the contact people listed with each title.
Included: only noninstructional projects one hour or longer that will debut nationally in January 2008 or later.
Winter/Spring ’08
Clemente
Producing organizations: A Quiet Pictures film for American Experience. Presenting station: WGBH. Episodes: 1 x 60 (HD). Status: preproduction. Major funders: Liberty Mutual, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, PBS, CPB. Executive producer: Mark Samels. Series producer: Sharon Grimberg. Producer: Bernardo Ruiz. Contact: Meredith Nierman, meredith_nierman@wgbh.org. 
Bio of Roberto Clemente, one of the first Hispanic superstars in baseball, a game now dominated by Latinos. Focuses on his life and career to shed light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change.
George H.W. Bush (w.t.)
Producing organizations: An Austin Hoyt Productions film for American Experience. Presenting station: WGBH. Episodes: 1 x 120, 1 x 90 (HD). Status: postproduction. Major funders: Liberty Mutual, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, PBS, CPB. Executive producer: Mark Samels. Series producer: Sharon Grimberg. Producer: Austin Hoyt. Contact: Meredith Nierman, meredith_nierman@wgbh.org. Two-part biography examines life and career of often-overlooked 41st president.
Walt Whitman
Producing organizations: A Storyteller Films production in association with HiddenHill Productions for American Experience. Presenting station: WGBH. Episodes: 1 x 120 (HD). Status: postproduction. Major funders: NEH, Liberty Mutual, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, PBS, CPB. Executive producer: Mark Samels. Series producer: Sharon Grimberg. Producers: Patrick Long, Jamila Wignot. Writer: Mark Zwonitzer. Contact: Meredith Nierman, meredith_nierman @wgbh.org. The life and work of one of America’s most influential poets.
Fall 2008
A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway (w.t.)
Producing organization: WQED. Distributor: PBS. Episodes: 1 x 60 (HD). Status: production. Budget: $300,000. Major funders: PBS, CPB. Producer/writer: Rick Sebak. Editor: Kevin Conrad. Director of Photography: Bob Lubomski. Vice President of production: Darryl Ford Williams. Contact: Rick Sebak, 412-622-1389. Darryl Ford Williams, 412-622-1393. Rosemary Martinelli, 412-622-6433. Journey along America’s first coast-to-coast highway, visiting people and places from Manhattan’s Times Square to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. Sebak’s blog chronicles the team’s travels at wqed.org/tv. See Current article.
Sometime in ’08
Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way
Producing organization: KQED. Episodes: 26 x 30 (HD). Status: production. Budget: $900,000. Major funders: OXO, Cuisinart, Spectrum Organics. Host: Jacques Pépin. Executive producer: Michael Isip. Producer: Tina Salter. Contact: Rebecca Krouner, rkrouner@ncpb.com, 415-553-2820. In the time it takes to pick up a ready-made meal from the supermarket, Jacques Pépin fills the table with his extraordinary quick-and-easy creations.
The Return of the Cuyahoga
Producing organizations: A co-production of Florentine Films/Hott Productions Inc., America’s River Communities Inc. and WVIZ/PBS ideastream, Cleveland. Episodes: 1 x 60 (HD). Status: postproduction. Budget: $400,000. Producer: Lawrence R. Hott. Executive producer: Len Materman. Co-executive producer: Ted Esborn. Editor: Diane Garey. Writer: Ken Chowder. Contact: Mark Smukler, 216-916-6220. When the Cuyahoga River caught on fire June 22, 1969, it sparked a chain of events that included the creation of the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, Earth Day, environmental protection agencies at the federal and state levels, and a rapidly growing consciousness about the environment in America.
Winter/Spring ’09
The Death of Lincoln (w.t.)
Producing organizations: An Arc Media film for American Experience.
Presenting station: WGBH. Episodes: 1 x 90 (HD). Status: preproduction. Major funders: Liberty Mutual, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, PBS, CPB. Executive producer: Mark Samels. Series producer: Sharon Grimberg. Producer: Barak Goodman. Contact: Meredith Nierman, meredith_nierman@wgbh.org. Story of Lincoln’s final tumultuous months, including his murder and the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth.
Oppenheimer
Producing organizations: A David Grubin Productions film for American Experience. Presenting station: WGBH. Episodes: 1 x 120 (HD). Status: preproduction. Major funders: Liberty Mutual, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, PBS, CPB. Executive producer: Mark Samels. Series producer: Sharon Grimberg. Producer: David Grubin. Contact: Meredith Nierman, meredith_nierman@wgbh.org. Portrait of one of the most important 20th-century American scientists, Robert Oppenheimer, from the heady world of international physics to the top-secret Manhattan Project and the dark days of McCarthyism.
Seduced by Tango
Producing organization: Tatge/Lasseur Productions. Episodes: 1 x 90 (HD). Status: preproduction, fundraising. Budget: $1.3 million. Host: Robert Duvall. Talent: Pablo Veron. Producer/director: Catherine Tatge. Producer: Dominique Lasseur. Composer/music supervisor: Tom Montgomery. Writer: Glenn Berenbeim. Coordinating producer: Bunny Tavares. Contact: Bunny Tavares, bunny@ tavaresmedia.com, 831-462-6004. Program explains why tango is not just a dance but a refuge, a way of life and a philosophy. Tango artist Pablo Veron prepares dancers for a pilgrimage to Argentina. The producers are soliciting dance couples on website: www.seducedbytango.com.
We Shall Remain
Producing organizations: WGBH in association with Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT). Presented by American Experience. Presenting station: WGBH. Episodes: 5 x 90 (HD). Status: production. Major funders: Liberty Mutual, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, CPB, PBS, Ford Foundation, NEH. Executive producers: Mark Samels (American Experience), Sharon Grimberg (We Shall Remain). Producers/directors: Ric Burns, Sarah Colt, Dustinn Craig, Chris Eyre, Stanley Nelson, Mark Zwonitzer. Contact: Meredith Nierman, meredith_nierman@wgbh.org. Provocative multimedia project establishes Native American history as an essential part of U.S. history. Unprecedented collaborations between Native and non-Native filmmakers place Indian voices at heart of five heartbreaking yet inspiring stories.
Fall 2009
The Calling
Producing organization: The Kindling Group. Distributor: PBS. Episodes: 4 x 60. Status: production. Budget: $2.2 million. Major funders: ITVS, CPB/PBS Program Challenge Fund, Hartley Film Foundation, Irving Harris Foundation. Producer/ director: Daniel Alpert. Contact: Bunny Tavares, bunny@tavaresmedia.com, 831-462-6004. Daniel Alpert, dannyatkindlinggroup.org, 773-728-8489. Explores the experience of faith in the United States from the perspectives of those preparing to enter the clergy of various faiths. Outreach led by Active Voice and Working Films targeting the general public, values-based organizations, religious and interfaith institutions and educational institutions will include discussion guides, community activities, video modules, website and other components.
Sometime in ’10
Robert E. Lee
Producing organizations: A HiddenHill Productions film for American Experience. Presenting station: WGBH. Distributor: PBS. Episodes: 1 x 120 (HD). Status: R&D. Major funders: Liberty Mutual, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, PBS, CPB. Executive producer: Mark Samels. Series producer: Sharon Grimberg. Producer: Mark Zwonitzer. Contact: Meredith Nierman, meredith_nierman@wgbh.org. Program examines life of the pre-eminent general whose successes made him the scourge of the Union and the hero of the Confederacy.
Whaling in America (w.t.)
Producing organizations: A Steeplechase Films production for American Experience. Presenting station: WGBH. Distributor: PBS. Episodes: 1 x 120 (HD). Status: production. Major funders: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Liberty Mutual, Scotts, PBS, CPB. Executive producer: Mark Samels. Series producer: Sharon Grimberg. Producer: Ric Burns. Contact: Meredith Nierman, meredith_nierman @wgbh.org. Explores the rich history of one of America’s first global industries, from its creation in the 18th century to its golden age in the 19th century and its ultimate demise in the 20th century.
Air date to be determined
Thin Ice: An Exploration of the Bering Sea at the Dawn of Global Warming
Producing organizations: A Hott Production of Florentine Films/Hott Productions Produced in Association with the Clark Science Center at Smith College. Presenting station: KTOO, Juneau. Episodes: 1 x 120 (HD). Status: fundraising, production. Budget: $1.2 million. Major funders: The Webster Trust, North Pacific Research Board. Producers: Lawrence Hott, Tom Littwin. Editor: Diane Garey. Writer: Ken Chowder. Contact: Lawrence Hott, 413-268-8300. Examines impact of climate change, contamination and commercialization on the ecosystem and peoples of the Bering Sea, one of the most pristine and productive areas of the world. Producers will circumnavigate the sea to film portraits of communities on both the Siberian and Alaskan sides.
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