Charles Schulz Documentary To Air on PBS in October

A date has been announced for "Good Ol' Charles Schulz", the latest installment in the PBS networks American Masters documentary series. Break out the pizza and root beer for October 29th, 9 PM EST.

A new, 90-minute video biography of Charles Schulz will air October 29, 2007 as part of the PBS series American Masters. The documentary, titled "Good Ol' Charles Schulz," was created by Lumiere Productions, a New York film production company, who have produced a number of award-winning and critically acclaimed documentaries, and have worked hard to make the documentary as in-depth as possible. In part, they worked with David Michaelis, whose 650-page biography of Charles Schulz will be also be published in October.

Here's the description from Lumiere's website:

"Charles M. Schulz always insisted he was ordinary and boring. But his ordinary life—like those of the Peanuts characters he created—was in fact chock-full of drama: mundane cruelties, transcendent hopes, and the daily collisions of insiders and outsiders. Interviews with those who knew him best (including the real-life Linus and Little Red-Haired Girl) will propel this feature-length documentary, the first American Masters tribute to a comic-strip artist."

While the show is scheduled to air on October 29 on most PBS stations, check your local listings to verify the time and date of broadcast.

Should make a wonderful visual companion piece alongside the Michaelis bio.

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