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Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVPaul Kerger entered 2020 planning to spend much of it celebrating PBS’ 50th anniversary.

But plans change.“It certainly is not the way we thought we would be celebrating our 50th anniversary,” the PBS CEO said during a Q&A Wednesday for Variety’s Virtual TV Fest. “When we started looking at this year, we were going to really do a lot of looking back and a lot of looking forward.

And in many ways I feel that everything that we’ve done over the last 50 years has prepared us for this moment.”Kerger spoke at length about how the same forces that have dramatically impacted nearly every corner of American life — the coronavirus outbreak, the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd by police —.

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