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Article: A `Tales' sequel still possible
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 22, 1994
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Will "More Tales of the City" air on PBS after all? Slim chance,
perhaps. But yesterday, American Program Service, the Boston-based
organization that brokers much of PBS' programming, approached
American Playhouse about just such a production. American Playhouse
is the New York-based producer of the original six-hour "Tales of the
City" miniseries based on Armistead Maupin's celebrated books about
San Francisco in the '70s and '80s.
APS said several of the biggest affiliates -- including Boston's
WGBH -- want to air a sequel, and that those affiliates might raise
part of the budget themselves. PBS last week said it would not fund
"More Tales," leading Maupin to charge that PBS had bowed ...