AP notes the Creative Arts Emmy Awards won by American Masters and Great Performances.

“No tenor has had quite the impact on the opera world, and the world at large, and this program reminds us why,” extols the Baltimore Sun on Great Performances’ Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias.

An article about Where We Stand: America’s Schools in the 21st Century by Thirteen/WNET Education VP Ron Thorpe runs in EdWeek. The program is reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, and The Week, which calls it “Show of the Week.” The New York Times and Tribune Media Service/Zap2it reviewed the special. Gannett News Service designated it the “Must See of the Week.”

Shakespeare on the Hudson on WNET and the re-broadcast on WLIW are mentioned by the Wall Street Journal’s theater critic, who writes, “If you’ve never seen my favorite outdoor summer Shakespeare festival in action, these excellent programs (which deserve to be shown nationwide) will give you a taste of what you’ve been missing.” “It has charm, it has humor, and it has dashes of poignancy,” says the Daily News.

“The tale of one of the biggest Hollywood studios started with a dog,” the Washington Post quotes Susan Lacy as saying, in a look at You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story. “The American Masters presentation serves as a springboard for an aggressive slate of new PBS programs in the next few months.” TV Guide and the Denver Post take note as well.

Though the series has been airing on PBS for eight years, apparently dead people still have lots of secrets that need to be uncovered. Thirteen/WNET dug up five new stories of long forgotten mysteries for the Secrets of the Dead series,” writes Real Screen.

“WNET/Thirteen, the PBS station seen in the New York City metropolitan area, will broadcast a live-to-tape performance of the Culture Project’s recent production of George Packer’s Off-Broadway drama Betrayed Oct. 23 at 9 PM ET” writes Playbill.

Long Island Press features WLIW21’s new local production Going Green Long Island, noting, “The hour-long documentary may not change your life, but will likely change your mind about what exactly going green entails—and that is the goal.”