On July 11, 2007, PBS announced that it had greenlit an animated adaptation of Car Talk, to air on prime-time in 2008.

* Carrier ( documentary ), a ten-part documentary miniseries that aired on PBS in April 2008

This adaptation aired on PBS in the United States as part of the " Complete Jane Austen " on Masterpiece Classic in January 2008.

* The opening theme and other music for the 2008 PBS animated series Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns were produced by Carl Finch and composed, arranged, and performed by Finch and Brave Combo.

* A six part PBS documentary about the 2008 – 09 season of the Big Apple Circus

* PBS Jasper Johns 2008

In May 2008, Sesame Workshop began production on a new version of The Electric Company that began airing on PBS Kids GO!

" The 300 + member SDSU Marching Band, " The Pride of the Dakotas ", given the special name the Millennium Band in 2000 by the South Dakota State Legislature, has marched in the 1981 and 1997 Presidential Inaugural Parades in Washington, D. C .; A Capital Fourth in 2000 in Washington DC which was broadcast on PBS ; the 2003 and 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California making them the second collegiate band in the history of the Rose Bowl to be invited to march twice when their team was not competing ; and the Korean War Monument Dedication at the state's capital Pierre in 2004, in the company of two other college bands and 60-some high school bands from across the state.

Shiva's focus on water has seen her appear in a number of related films: " Ganga from the ground up " a documentary on water issues in the river Ganges ,, Blue Gold: World Water Wars by Sam Bozzo, Irena Salina's documentary Flow: For Love of Water ( in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival ) and the PBS NOW documentary On Thin Ice.

For the 2008 PBS documentary, A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway, Buddy McNutt composed the song " Goin ' All the Way ( on the Lincoln Highway )".

On October 29, 2008, PBS premiered the new documentary film, A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway, produced by Rick Sebak with WQED in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

** 2008: A four-hour BBC adaptation, written by David Nicholls, aired in the United Kingdom in September and October 2008 ( in four parts ), and in the United States on the PBS series Masterpiece Classic in January 2009 ( in two parts ).

The series began transmission in the UK in November 2007, and on the BBC's U. S. producing partner station WGBH ( PBS Boston ) in spring 2008.

A 90 minute documentary about his life and career, " Words and Music by Jerry Herman ," by filmmaker Amber Edwards, was broadcast on PBS in 2008.

On the August 8, 2008 episode of Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen on PBS, Raichlen said that " the Buffalo wing was born at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York in 1964.

A Chinese tong ( community organization ) building in Isleton was featured on a July 2008 episode of the PBS program History Detectives.

This adaptation was broadcast in the US on many PBS stations on Sunday April 13, 2008.

* The Last Conquistador ( 2008 ), a PBS POV documentary about the Oñate statue controversy

Another documentary, titled Tulia, Texas, filmed by Cassandra Herman and Kelly Whalen, premiered in 2008 at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin and aired on PBS February 10, 2009.

The film is distributed by Koch Entertainment and was broadcast on PBS on July 11, 2007, as part of its American Masters series and was broadcast on October 17, 2008, on BBC Four as part of its Guitar Night.

The controversy over the statue prior to its installation was the subject of the documentary film The Last Conquistador, presented in 2008 as part of PBS ' P. O. V.

show, without stars or a conventional theater run, was generally forgotten until 2008, when the PBS History Detectives TV show researched the case of a long-saved radio transcription disc.

This release in almost identical in terms of content to that released in 2005, except for the inclusion of the new Life Lessons from Onslow special, filmed for PBS in early 2008.

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: 6. 14 deaths / 1, 000 population ( 2008 est.

According to RFE / RL, comparable sums are believed to be transferred through non-bank systems, implying that cash remittances make up approximately 30 percent of Armenia's GDP in the first half of 2008.

: 4. 13 deaths / 1, 000 population ( 2008 est.

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The Institute of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany has set up a Research Department Ayahuasca / Santo Daime, which in May 2008 held a 3-day conference under the title The globalization of Ayahuasca-An Amazonian psychoactive and its users.

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* Quick, Ben " The Boneyard " Orion Magazine, March / April 2008

Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons / Thomson Gale, 2008.

The symbol for bit, as a unit of information, is either simply " bit " ( recommended by the ISO / IEC standard 80000-13 ( 2008 )) or lowercase " b " ( recommended by the IEEE 1541 Standard ( 2002 )).

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

* 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( d. 2008 )

* 1955 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer ( d. 2008 )

* 1935 – Beverlee McKinsey, American actress ( d. 2008 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

American Samoa has a total of 241 km of highways ( estimated in 2008 ).

* 1915 – Pete Newell, American basketball coach ( d. 2008 )

* 1918 – Larry Haines, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Skip Caray, American sportscaster ( b. 1939 )

* 2008 – Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter ( The Tarriers and The Rooftop Singers ) ( b. 1933 )

* 1927 – Edie Adams, American actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1933 – Ike Pappas, American journalist ( d. 2008 )

* 1979 – Sean Costello, American singer and musician ( d. 2008 )

* Adrian Kantrowitz ( 1918 – 2008 ), American cardiac surgeon

* 1945 – Gene Upshaw, American football player ( d. 2008 )

The American Stock Exchange merged with the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE Euronext ) on October 1, 2008.

* 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.

* 1939 – Skip Caray, American sportscaster ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Judy Grable, American wrestler ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Robert Mulligan, American director ( d. 2008 )

* 1915 – Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright ( d. 2008 )