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Texas Ranch House: interactive programming from Thirteen/WNET.(INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA INITIATIVES: Focusing on the Educational Resources Center at Thirteen/WNET, New York, New York)(Product/service evaluation)
INTRODUCTION
Produced by Thirteen/WNET and Wall to Wall Television, TEXAS RANCH HOUSE follows in the path of COLONIAL HOUSE and provides a stimulating look at life in the United States in the 1860s. The eight-part series shows life in Texas from a variety of perspectives and includes an interactive website and additional resources for teachers and students to explore.
THE SERIES
The eight episodes of TEXAS RANCH HOUSE bring modern day individuals face-to-face with the realities of ranch living, manual labor and all the domestic and other tasks necessary to daily work and survival. The episodes center on a family, the Cookes, and bring to life the positive points and tensions they encounter among themselves and others living in the local area. The eight episodes are:
1. A Home On The Range
2. The Good, The Bad & The Colonel
3. The Cookie Crumbles
- Tubegazing: Texas Ranch House.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor April 28, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Gloria Goodale Texas Ranch House Texas Ranch House (PBS, May 1-4, 8-10 p.m. EDT) The...watchable modern TV. The latest installment, "Texas Ranch House," transports a California family of five and...
- Review: PBS' 'Texas Ranch House' goes back to the simpler life.
- Newspaper article from: Stamford Advocate (Stamford, CT) April 30, 2006 700+ words
...on-history experiment, "Texas Ranch House," which begins Monday night...of drama and didacticism. "Texas Ranch House" is, in the end, perhaps...as the focus of our gaze, "Texas Ranch House" offers up an era where people...
- Search for Participants Begins as PBS Greenlights New Miniseries - TEXAS RANCH...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 1, 2005 700+ words
...history television events with TEXAS RANCH HOUSE (w.t.), an eight-part...acclaim for previous projects. "TEXAS RANCH HOUSE (w.t.) promises to take...www.pbs.org/ranchhouse. TEXAS RANCH HOUSE (w.t.) continues the tradition...
- Slack in the saddle: `Texas Ranch House' not worthy of PBS brand.(Arts and...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Perigard, Mark A. April 30, 2006 700+ words
...Byline: MARK A. PERIGARD "TEXAS RANCH HOUSE" Tomorrow through Wednesday...into the untamed West? PBS' "Texas Ranch House" will kill that fantasy for...for a good western? Skip "Texas Ranch House" and watch the TV Land reruns...
- PBS: 'Curious George,' 'Texas Ranch House' in Works.(TV Currents)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: TelevisionWeek January 24, 2005 700+ words
...and "Colonial House," New York's WNET-TV and Wall to Wall are developing an eight-part series called "Texas Ranch House." A participant search begins Feb. 1. The series shoots over the summer and will air in spring 2006. WGBH and...
- Living big in Texas. (ranch house)
- Magazine article from: Professional Builder (1993) Patterson, Anne March 22, 1997 700+ words
A 21,000-square-foot ranch house provides ample space for numerous amenities and family activities...Ace High Ranch in China Springs, Texas, recalls traditional Texas ranch houses. The use of natural materials, a spacious verandah...
- Cooke family finds TV 'reality' a shocker: SAN RAMON: Members discuss their...
- Newspaper article from: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) May 18, 2006 700+ words
...deconstructing their treatment and describing how they were stunned at their portrayal on the PBS reality TV series "Texas Ranch House." Before the family's presentation at the San Ramon Library, when the patriarch, Bill Cooke acknowledged to...
- `Ranch House' reality makes for an entertaining roundup.
- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) April 26, 2006 700+ words
...circa 1867 _ has come. "Texas Ranch House," sequel to "Colonial House...Maura Finkelstein. "Instead of Texas Ranch House,' I'm calling it `Sexist...long, dusty tour of duty. "Texas Ranch House" can be a little slow on the...
