PBS America To Air Full 18 Hours Of Ken Burns & Lynn Novick Documentary ‘The Vietnam War’
The Vietnam War is getting a full broadcast on this side of the pond. PBS America has announced plans to air the critically acclaimed PBS documentary series from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick in full (running some 18 hours). It will premiere on the channel on Wednesday nights from April 11th at 9pm. The BBC did acquire and air a version of The Vietnam War on BBC Four last year, but that international edit ran a mere ten hours. As such, this marks the first time that the series has aired in its entirety here in the UK. 
PBS America has picked up the UK broadcast rights to Oscar nominated feature-length Vietnam war documentary Last Days In Vietnam, TVWise has learned. the documentary will premiere on PBS America on Sunday November 1st at 8pm. 
PBS America is going free-to-air. The UK arm of the US public broadcaster will be made available on Freesat channel 160 as of Saturday October 31st, TVWise has learned. 
PBS America has picked up the UK rights to Secrets, Politics & Torture - Frontline's hour-long documentary on the CIA controversial program of using "enhanced interrogation techniques" on high value targets in the War on Terror, as well as the ensuing investigation and report from the US Senate Select Committee On Intelligence. 