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A few months ago, during their pledge drive, Arkansas PBS reran Elvis Presleys 1968 comeback TV special. They asked me to sit in the studio and comment on the show during the breaks and I had a great time talking with Arkansas PBS Foundation CEO Marge Betley about what the special meant to Presleys career and American pop culture.

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“I heard the news/There’s good rockin’ tonight.” That’s what Elvis Presley sang in 1954, on his second single, a cover of a jump blues tune originated by Roy…

Television has been the arena for electrifying watershed musical performances — the Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Queen at Live Aid, Tony Bennett’s “MTV Unplugged” — that become the

A new Paramount+ documentary goes behind-the-scenes of the groundbreaking 1968 NBC special "Elvis," which marked Elvis Presley's comeback after years of Hollywood movie mediocrity.

Filmmaker John Scheinfeld shares behind-the-scenes details about capturing Elvis Presley in his documentary, “Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback.”

The documentary on Paramount+ looks at the 1968 TV special that reinvigorated Elvis Presley's career with interviews from the director and others about the making of the show.

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Reinventing Elvis captures a moment when a legend was rediscovering his own genius and sharing it with a world that had nearly forgotten him.

The director of Elvis unforgettable 68 TV special takes viewers behind the scenes in a new tell-all doc.