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He is the creator, executive producer and head writer of the HBO series Deadwood, a Western drama set in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Deadwood began its second season this week.

For more than 20 years, filmmaker Peter Brosnan has been working to unearth and restore the "Lost City" of Cecil B. DeMille: the massive set of his epic The Ten Commandments, which was buried in the California desert in the 1920s.

Cicely Tyson starred in movies like The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots, and was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the classic movie Sounder. After a lengthy hiatus she returns to the big screen in two movies: Because of Winn-Dixie and Diary of A Mad Black Woman. In part two of Ed Gordon's interview, he talks to Tyson about her extraordinary film career.

An enormous work of art opens Saturday in New York's Central Park. The Gates Project is the brainchild of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The husband-and-wife team's work consists of 7,500 squared arches topped with orange flags.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan says Lost Embrace, an Argentinean film that is just now debuting in the States, is a charming and original story about ordinary life set in a Jewish neighborhood in Buenos Aires.

In Hollywood's infancy, African-Americans had few roles -- or jobs -- to choose from. The Oscars were out of reach for talents such as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Paul Robeson or Lena Horne. We look behind the scenes in Black Hollywood.

American Dad, a new animated series from the creators of Family Guy, premieres on Fox this Sunday, right after the Super Bowl. Television critic Andrew Wallenstein has a review.

Lorne Michaels is the creator and long-time executive producer of Saturday Night Live, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Last fall, Michaels was awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The tribute was taped and will be broadcast on Wednesday, March 2, on PBS. It includes comic performances by Dan Aykroyd, Candice Bergin, Darrell Hammond, Tina Fey, Steve Martin, Conan O'Brien and others.

A collection of staged murder scene photos once used in the TV series Law and Order, are being featured in an exhibition at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. Brenda Tremblay of WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., reports.

In the first of an occasional series highlighting a particular poet and a special poem, Nikki Giovanni performs A Poem for Langston Hughes, and explains how she came to write it.