Fred McFeely Rogers summered in a modest, gray, shake shingled house on the edge of Nantucket. My mother rented a cottage next door. So Mister Rogers really was my neighbor. On the afternoon of our first meeting, Mister Rogers asked me about my job as an MTV News producer. I felt exposed and a tiny-bit embarrassed, a PBS mind in a jump-cut, sound-bit MTV world. Mister Rogers said warmly, “I ...

Mister Rogers certainly ranks amongst America's most-quotable television icons. "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" was carefully-scripted and thoroughly-rehearsed based on meticulous research. And by all accounts (including my own), he was equally engaging, inspiring and memorable in person. So when, in our film, "Mister Rogers & Me," my brother and I set out to document how he changed my life, it ...

Mister Rogers & Me won an American Public Television Programming Excellence Award! The award was presented at APT's Fall Marketplace during which PBS stations from around the country gathered to celebrate previously and soon-to-air programming. The Excellence Award honors "a select few of the best programs distributed last year... for their originality, execution, creativity, scope of ...