tpt National Productions

Twin Cities Public Television (tpt), the PBS affiliate for Minneapolis-St. Paul, is a prominent producer of national programs for PBS. Our productions have received television’s highest honors, including national Emmy Awards, the DuPont-Columbia Commendation, two Peabody Awards, an Academy Award nomination, as well as numerous regional and international awards. In both 2003 and 2004, tpt productions garnered the national primetime Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Special (Benjamin Franklin and The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s).

NEWTON'S APPLE
For 15 years, Newton's Apple was America's top-rated family science show.

Winner Daytime Emmy Award for Best Children's Program

DRAGONFLYTV
Now in its sixth year, this totally kid-centered approach to scientific discovery offers wonder and fun. It's real kids doing real science.

Cine Golden Eagle Award
Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Benjamin Franklin explores the life and times of an American genius, one of the most remarkable human beings this country has ever known.

Winner Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special

THE FORGETTING: A Portrait of Alzheimer's
Ever wonder why we still need PBS in a world of 500 channels? Because no other network would do The Forgetting: an invaluable, incredibly moving documentary. — USA Today

Winner Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special

HOOP DREAMS
The best film of the 1990's. — Rober Ebert, At the Movies

Winner of the George Foster Peabody Award
Nominated for an Academy Award

NOVA: Flood
Viewers sensible enough to immerse themselves in this drama overflowing with detail will be amply rewarded. – The Wall Street Journal

NOVA: Dying to be Thin
Those who may be at risk or already caught in the throes of these potentially devastating [eating] disorders and the people who love them would do well to tune in to 'Dying to be Thin'...
 — The New York Times  

Two-Time Winner, Daytime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Show Host (2004 and 2006)



AMERICAN HIGH
"American High” is serious, expertly crafted, often poignant. . . . The least contrived and most realistic of reality programs.— The New York Times

Winner Primetime Emmy Award for Best Reality Program

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY:
A Century of Images
[E]ntertaining, broad-reaching. . . . A program this good can captivate, entertain and inform. That's close to perfect.— San Francisco Chronicle

Winner PBS Award for Best Program Web Site

This documentary features dramatic re-enactments of the breakthroughs and setbacks that led to the invention of the transistor.