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FRIENDS OF WILL MEMBERSHIP MAGAZINE
january 2011
Two thumbs up for Roger Ebert’s return!
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NOVA: Making Stuff
stronger cleaner smaller
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Host David Pogue in Making Stuff: Smarter (pg 1)
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january 2011 Volume XXXVIII, Number 7 A threat to our very existence By Mark Leonard, General Manager The new year symbolizes a time of opportunity and promise—a time of great possibility. It also marks the beginning of a new Congressional session in Washington. As we begin 2011, there are signs that this could be a very challenging year for the survival of public broadcasting. The country faces monumental financial challenges, with a staggering federal deficit, high unemployment and the specter of partisan gridlock. Elected officials from both sides of the aisle recognize the need for austerity, and countless programs have been identified for elimination—including funding for public broadcasting. I hope that you, as a supporter of WILL, will follow the debates regarding funding cuts closely. I can assure you that elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting would threaten the very existence of local stations, including WILL. The current federal appropriation of $420 million per year is sent primarily to the local stations where it is used to purchase programming from national suppliers, including PBS and NPR. This represents a tax investment of $1.35 per person. Without that core funding, we would no longer have the ability to fund the key national programming that we all benefit from. Programs like PBS NewsHour, NOVA, Sesame Street, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Masterpiece Theatre, and Antiques Roadshow are all products of a shared investment by local broadcast stations, funded largely by the core federal appropriation. Membership support, underwriting, state and University support all augment that, creating a model public/private partnership. A cut in federal funding would not result in belt tightening—that has already occurred at WILL and our fellow public broadcasters. It would signal the potential end of a media service that is locally controlled, non-commercial and non-profit and that exists solely for the education, enlightenment and inspiration of its citizens. Previous threats to “de-fund” public broadcasting have been largely unsuccessful due to the overwhelming response of the American public, affirming the importance of public broadcasting in their lives. You can learn more at 170MillionAmericans.org. Monitor the movement to de-fund public broadcasting and the vital role federal funding plays in sustaining WILL. I hope that you will let your elected officials know where public broadcasting falls among your priorities for federal investment.
...cleaner
...smaller What’s in the lab today could be in your life tomorrow.
Photo: ©Flip Schulke/CORBIS
NOVA
examines breakthroughs in materials science. Invisibility cloaks. Spider silk that is stronger than steel. Plastics made of sugar that dissolves in landfills. Smart pills and microrobots that zap diseases. These innovations in the world of materials science will help define the progression of humankind in the same way that stone, bronze, iron, plastics and silicon have marked previous eras. And they’re discoveries that could soon be a part of our everyday lives. In NOVA’s fascinating new four-hour series, Making Stuff, New York Times technology reporter David Pogue offers behindthe-scenes peeks at the innovations that are making materials stronger, smarter, smaller and cleaner. The series premiere on Jan. 19 will coincide with NOVA’s move to 8 pm Wednesdays (see article page 18). In Making Stuff: Stronger, Pogue tests the world’s strongest
materials, from iron to a toucan’s beak, to help explain what defines strength. He also confers with experts who are re-engineering materials from nature to create the next generation of strong “stuff.” In Making Stuff: Smaller (Jan. 26), Pogue explores the star materials of small applications, including silicon and carbon, the element now being manipulated at the atomic level to produce future technology. The other two parts of the series address cleaner materials that protect the environment (Feb. 2) and a growing number of “smart” materials that are able to react, change and even learn (Feb. 9). Photos: courtesy of Powerhouse Productions
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Photo:Courtesy of Matthew Brady/NARA
Don’t miss the new season of
American Experience It kicks off at 8 pm Mondays starting Jan. 3 on WILL-TV. That night’s program profiles Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War. Discover why, nearly 150 years after his death, this hero of the Confederacy remains a source of both admiration and veneration.
Photo:Courtesy of Matthew Brady/NARA
The following week, U.S. Grant: Warrior takes an in-depth look at Lee’s wartime nemesis. His daring battlefield victories helped the North win the war, but Grant was widely criticized as a “butcher” when the extent of the carnage at Shiloh was revealed. Next, the professional rivalry between two of this country’s greatest paleontologists is the subject of Dinosaur Wars on Jan. 17. The competition between Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope led to discovery of the remains of dozens of prehistoric animals, including 130 species of dinosaur—but also to espionage, the destruction of fossils and political maneuvering that ultimately left both men nearly penniless. Then on Jan. 24, Panama Canal showcases one of the world’s most significant technological achievements—the use of American innovation to connect the planet’s two largest oceans. To accomplish the feat, the U.S. spent more than $350 million—the largest single federal expenditure in history at that time—with more than 5,000 workers losing their lives. The story of the canal features a cast of colorful characters ranging from an indomitable president to visionary engineers to tens of thousands of workers from around the world, documented through an extraordinary archive of photos and footage, interviews with canal workers and firsthand accounts of life in the construction zone.
Photo: Courtesy of American Museum of Natural History Photo: Courtesy of NARA
At the Movies returns to public television!
Urbana native and U of I College of Media alumnus Roger Ebert returns to television with Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, an updated version of the highly rated—and often imitated—Sneak Previews. The halfhour program premieres on WILL-TV at 8:30 pm Friday, Jan. 21. Ebert’s new series features reviews of new movies, foreign and independent films and direct-to-TV releases; showcases classic movies and hot issues in the cinema; and presents new segments on new media and movie interactivity.
Film Discussion Series:
Ebert, with the aid of computer-generated voice technology, hosts a video essay or reviews a film in each episode. His segment is joined by content from four new critics: co-hosts Christy Lemire of the Associated Press and Elvis Mitchell of NPR, along with bloggers Kim Morgan (MSN, Huffington Post and Entertainment Weekly) and Omar Moore, a lawyer, film critic and editor of www.popcornreel.com. The show is distributed by public station WTTW in Chicago, bringing Ebert back to the roots of his original At the Movies program, which began as Opening Soon at a Theater Near You in 1975 before moving into syndication in 1982.
Spirit of Goodwill band inspires on concert stage Join Illinois Public Media, along with community organizations serving people with disabilities, for a screening and discussion about the independent documentary, For Once in My Life. The program is an infectious, expectation-defying look at the inspiring Spirit of Goodwill band, a unique assembly of singers and musicians with a wide range of mental and physical challenges. The screening, the first of a monthly series by Illinois Public Media, takes place at 6:30 pm Thursday, Jan. 27, in the Robeson Room at the Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St. The event is free and open to the public. The film follows the band, made up of workers at the Goodwill Industries center in Miami, as their determination, talent and dedication take them from the rehearsal room to the concert stage. The program airs on WILL-TV’s Independent Lens on Feb. 1. From January through June, Illinois Public Media will join with the Independent Television Service to sponsor screenings of independent documentaries, followed by discussions facilitated by community groups with an interest in the topic. Each screening will take place before the program airs on WILL-TV. “Community cinema presentations are being done in over 90 cities nationwide,” said Henry Radcliffe, who is heading up the project for Illinois Public Media. “It’s a
great opportunity to showcase documentaries and to generate conversations in the community about issues and concerns raised by those documentaries,” he said. “Public television tells some of the best stories on television and these stories give voice to issues we often forget.” Other films in the series are: Me Facing Life, about a 16-year-old girl arrested for murder; Pushing the Elephant, about forgiveness and coming to terms with the past in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Welcome to Shelbyville, a glimpse of a small Tennessee town in the heart of America’s Bible Belt that grapples with rapidly changing demographics; Bhutto, an intimate look at one of the most fascinating and important world leaders of our time, Benazir Bhutto; and Two Spirits, about the senseless murder of a 16-year-old Navajo youth who was part of an honored Navajo tradition, the nadleeh, or “two-spirit,” who possesses a balance of masculine and feminine traits. PATTERNS • JANUARY 2011 3
weekdays WILL-FM 90.9 and HD1 106.5 in Danville
6 am NPR Morning Edition with Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep and Jim Meadows
9 am Classic Mornings with Vic Di Geronimo Join Vic for music and companionship and make each morning a classic morning!
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Noon Live and Local with Kevin Kelly
s Simone Dinnerstein (7 pm 1/24)
Anne-Sophie Mutter (7 pm 1/11)
Kevin’s get-together features music and a daily serving of news about, and interviews with, area musicmakers, plus a calendar of regional music events.
1 pm Afternoon Classics Julie Amacher, Lynn Warfel and Mindy Ratner keep you company throughout the afternoon. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac is at 1:01. NPR News Headlines at 3:01.
5 pm NPR All Things Considered with Robert Siegel, Melissa Block and Michele Norris
7 pm The Evening Concert Great orchestras from the great concert venues.
Monday: New Jersey Symphony
(New year, new season) 1/3 Arild Remmereit, cond; Vladimir Feltsman, piano TORKE; BEETHOVEN; MUSSORGSKY/ RAVEL 1/10 Mischa Santora, cond; Vadim Gluzman, violin MENDELSSOHN; BRAHMS 1/17 Neemi Jarvi, cond; Pamela Armstrong, soprano DUKAS; FAURE; RAVEL; FRANCK 1/24 Thierry Fischer, cond; Simone Dinnerstein, piano PROKOFIEV; BEETHOVEN; SCHUBERT 1/31 Neemi Jarvi, cond; Eric Wyrick, violin RACHMANINOFF; BUSONI; MENDELSSOHN
Tuesday: Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1/4
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, cond; Jorge Federico Osorio, piano WEBER; LISZT; R.STRAUSS; MOZART Ricardo Muti, cond; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin HAYDN; MOZART; BEETHOVEN; LISZT
1/18
Sir Colin Davis, cond; Nikolai Znaider, violin ELGAR; MOZART; ELGAR Chicago Symphony Orchestra
1/11
The New York Philharmonic This Week
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1/25
Mikko Franck, cond TCHAIKOVSKY; BEETHOVEN; STRAVINSKY
Wednesday: San Francisco Symphony
(New season) 1/5 Peter Oundjian; Emanuel Ax, piano MOZART; SZYMANOWSKI; R.STRAUSS; TCHAIKOVSKY 1/12 Fabio Luisi, cond; Joshua Bell, violin R.STRAUSS; SAINT-SAENS; SCHMIDT 1/19 Herbert Blomstedt, cond; Nikolai Znaider, violin BRAHMS; NIELSEN 1/26 Mark Wigglesworth, cond; Lang Lang, piano WAGNER; CHOPIN
Thursday: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
(New season) 1/6 Edo de Waart, cond; MAHLER: Symphony #3 1/13 Gilbert Varga, cond; William Barnewitz, horn HAYDN; MOZART; RAVEL 1/20 Edo de Waart, cond; Joseph Johnson, cello FAURE; SAINT-SAENS; TCHAIKOVSKY 1/27 Edo de Waart, cond; Garrick Ohlsson, piano BERLIOZ; CHOPIN; ELGAR
Friday: Prairie Performances 1/7
1/14
1/21 1/28
U of I Symphony (10/15/10) Ben Charles, Andy Miller, Akira Robles, percussion R. STRAUSS; PECK; BRAHMS Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana (10/17/10) Music for Voice and Lute Jay Carter, soloist; Jeff Noonan, lute Illinois Chamber (10/22/10) Karen Lynne Deal, cond All-BACH program U of I Wind Symphony (10/22/10) Dr. Robert W. Rumbelow, cond BARBER; KING; KRAMER; DAVID; TURRIN; GOLDMAN; RUMBELOW U of I Symphony 2010-11 (12/8/10) Jingjing Wang, piano BORODIN; PROKOFIEV; R. STRAUSS
9 pm Night Music Gillian Martin, Bob Christiansen, Ward Jacobson, Scott Blankenship or John Zech keep you company through the night and into the morning. NPR News Headlines at 9:01.
saturdays & sundays 4 pm NPR All Things Considered 5 pm A Prairie Home Companion Garrison Keillor and friends present music, skits, and the latest news from Lake Wobegon. [Also Sundays at 2 pm]
7 pm Classics All Night Bob Christiansen and Scott Blankenship keep you company Saturday night and into Sunday morning. NPR News Headlines at 7:01 and 10:01.
sundays s Marcello Giordani (noon 1/8)
saturdays 7 am NPR Weekend Edition with Scott Simon
9 am Classics By Request John Frayne plays requests for two hours at this time each Saturday. Submit requests at classreq@illinois. edu or 217-265-5084. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac at 9:01.
11 am Classics of the Phonograph John Frayne’s weekly exploration of memorable recordings from the 20th century. *Note: Early start at 10 am on 1/1. 1/1 *Vienna’s New Year’s Day Concerts, Over the Years 1/8 Hollywood’s Composers in the Concert Hall: Miklos Rozsa 1/15 Dvorak’s “Rediscovered” Four Symphonies 1/22 Shostakovich’s String Quartets on Records 1/29 Samuel Barber: Classic Recordings
Noon Afternoon at the Opera Live from the Metropolitan Opera series continues in January. *Note: Early start at 11 am on 1/1. 1/1 *PELLEAS ET MELISANDE (Debussy). Simon Rattle, cond, with Magdalena Kozena, Stephane Degout and Gerald Finley. 1/8 LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Girl of the Golden West) (Puccini). Nicola Luisotti, cond, with Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani and Lucio Gallo. 1/15 LA TRAVIATA (Verdi). Gianandrea Noseda, cond, with Marina Poplavskaya, Matthew Polenzani and Andrzej Dobber. 1/22 RIGOLETTO (Verdi). Paolo Arrivabeni, cond, with Nino Machaidze, Joseph Calleja and Giovanni Meoni. 1/29 TOSCA (Puccini). Marco Armiliato, cond, with Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcelo Alvarez and Falk Struckmann.
7 am NPR Weekend Edition with Liane Hansen
9 am Sunday Baroque Suzanne Bona provides relaxing early music by the likes of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac at 9:01.
1 pm From the Top A live performance program featuring America’s best young classical musicians, hosted by pianist Christopher O’Riley.
2 pm A Prairie Home Companion Garrison Keillor and friends present music, skits and the latest news from Lake Wobegon.
4 pm NPR All Things Considered 5 pm Classical Music Mindy Ratner and Valerie Kahler are your hosts. NPR News Headlines at 7:01.
10 pm Harmonia Angela Mariani presents Baroque and early music. NPR News Headlines at 10:01.
11 pm The Romantic Hours Music, poetry and romance with Mona Golabek.
midnight Classical Music Scott Blankenship and John Zech are your hosts throughout the night and into the morning.
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101.1 and 90.9 HD2
weekdays
saturdays
6-9 am Classical Music
7-9 am Classical Music
9 am-noon Classic Mornings with Vic Di Geronimo
9-11 am Classics by Request
Join Vic for music and companionship and make each morning a classic morning!
Noon-1 pm Live and Local with Kevin Kelly Kevin’s get-together features music and a daily serving of news about, and interviews with, area musicmakers, plus a calendar of regional music events.
1 pm - overnight Classical Music/Friday: Prairie Performances 7-9 pm
John Frayne plays requests at this time each Saturday. Submit requests at classreq@illinois.edu or 217-265-5084.
11 am-Noon Classics of the Phonograph John Frayne’s weekly exploration of classical music from the pre-digital recording era. See page 5 for listings.
Noon-overnight Classical Music
sundays all day Classical Music
A Midnight Special dinner concert with your pledge A special edition of The Midnight Special from 2-4 pm on Saturday, Jan. 22, will help raise funds for WILL radio while also qualifying those who pledge with the opportunity for tickets to an intimate concert with folk singer Debra Cowan, one of host Rich Warren’s favorites, in WILLTV’s studio X on Valentine’s Day. The Feb. 14 event also includes dinner and pre-concert remarks by Rich in the WILLTV lobby before the concert. The first 25-30 fans who pledge at least $120 on Jan. 22 get free tickets to the concert. “Debra has a unique capacity to interpret traditional music with a contemporary sensibility,” said Rich, who has twice presented Cowan on WFMT’s “Folkstage” live broadcast concert series in Chicago. “She has a lovely voice and can make the music interesting to modern audiences.” People who pledge at the $75 level during the Jan. 22 fundraising show will receive Cowan’s 2009 CD Fond Desire Farewell. At the $175 level, donors receive the CD and tickets to the Feb. 14 dinner concert. 6 PATTERNS • JANUARY 2011
Debra started performing in California 35 years ago and began touring in 1998, with frequent stops in the U.S. and U.K., from folk clubs to festivals like the New Bedford Summerfest and the Dunbar Folk Festival in Scotland. Find out more about her at debracowan.com.
FM 90.9 HD3
AM 580 Listener Comments: 217-333-0853 / willamfm@illinois.edu
Saturday
Sunday
5:00
BBC Overnight Continued
City Club Forum
6:00
Commodity Week
Inside Europe
6:30
Illinois Gardener
Monday–Friday NPR Morning Edition with Jim Meadows
7:00
NPR Weekend Edition
BBC World Briefing
9:00
Car Talk
Focus with David Inge NPR News 10:01/11:01
10:00
Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me
Says You
11:00
State Week in Review
Car Talk
11:30
Commodity Week
The Afternoon Magazine with Celeste Quinn NPR News 12:01
Noon
Travel with Rick Steves
Fresh Air
1:00
This American Life
The Closing Market Report NPR News 2:01
2:00
The Midnight Special
BBC Business Daily
2:36
The World All Things Considered with Jeff Bossert
3:00
NPR Weekend Edition
On the Media
Media Matters with Bob McChesney The Tavis Smiley Show
Wait Wait ...
4:00
NPR All Things Considered
All Things Considered
5:00
The People’s Pharmacy
Keepin’ the Faith with Steve Shoemaker
6:00
Commonwealth Club
This American Life
Fresh Air
7:00
Living on Earth
BBC World Service
8:00
Latino USA
To the Best of Our Knowledge
8:30
World Vision Report
9:00
Alternative Radio
New Dimensions
10:00
Bookworm
Le Show
10:30
New Letters on the Air
11:00-
BBC World Service
On Point
BBC World Service
BBC World Service
Bold Listing = National/International News
10:07 am
1/5 Cooking 1/12 Nutrition 1/17 Home Care 1/18 Lawn & Garden Care 1/21 Personal Finance
11:07
Focus monthly guests
1/6 Computers 1/7 Dog Behavior & Care 1/24 Women’s Health
Weather Monday-Friday Weather Forecast: 5:33, 6:33, 7:33, 8:33 am; 12:35, 4:33, 5:33 pm Saturday and Sunday Occasional updates
Agriculture Dave Dickey, agriculture director; Todd Gleason, host, Closing Market Report & Commodity Week
Pre-Opening Market Report: 8:49 am; Opening Market Report: 9:49 am; Market Update: 10:58 and 11:58 am; Ag and Stock Market Report: 12:55 pm; Settlements: 1:58 pm; Closing Market Report: 2:06 pm. To listen to archived ag reports, sign up for the Illinois Public Media Ag E-newsletter, or download our agricultural podcasts, visit www.willag.org. Call 217-333-3434 for market analysis, updated at 9:15 am and 3:15 pm daily.
Illinois Public Media News Tom Rogers, news and public affairs director
The news from Illinois Public Media’s award-winning staff of reporters — Tom Rogers, Jim Meadows, Jeff Bossert and Sean Powers—can be heard during Morning Edition, The Afternoon Magazine and All Things Considered. PATTERNS • JANUARY 2011 7
12.3 Cooking
(midnight-2 am; 6-8 am; noon-2 pm; 6-8 pm) Sun and Wed: Cook’s Country; Lidia’s Italy; Joanne Weir’s Cooking Class; New Scandinavian Cooking with Claus Meyer Mon and Fri: Simply Ming; Lidia’s Italy; Ciao Italia; Caprial and John’s Kitchen Tue and Thur: Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth; Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way; Sara’s Weeknight Meals/Martin Yan’s Hidden China (begins 1/20); Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen/Avec Eric (begins 1/13)
Travel
(2-3 am; 8-9 am; 2-3 pm; 8-9 pm) Sun and Wed: Rick Steves Europe; Travelscope Mon and Fri: Rick Steves Europe; Open Road Tue and Thu: Rick Steves Europe; Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions
Gardening/Home Improvement
(3-5 am; 9-11 am; 3-5 pm; 9-11 pm) Mon and Fri: Garden Smart/Garden Home (F); This Old House; Rough Cut: Woodworking with Tommy Mac; Paint, Paper and Crafts/Crafting at the Spotted Canary (begins 1/7) Tue and Thu: Victory Garden; New Yankee Workshop/ Woodwright’s Shop (begins 1/4); Woodsmith Shop; Glass with Vicki Payne
Primetime Schedule Monday-Friday
9:00 PBS NewsHour 10:00 Nightly Business Report 10:30 Journal
Mondays
7:00 Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work (1/3, 1/10, 1/17); American Experience (1/24) 8:00 Nature 11:00 Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work (1/3, 1/10, 1/17); Summer of Birds (1/24); Crown of the Continent (1/31) 11:30 Krakatoa (1/31)
Tuesdays
7:00 American Experience: Dinosaur Wars (1/18) 7:30 American Experience: Robert E. Lee (1/4); U.S. Grant (1/11) 8:00 American Experience: Grand Central (1/18); Hoover Dam (1/25) 11:00 American Experience: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1/4); Young Lincoln (1/11); Railroad Empire (1/18); Tracks Across the Sky (1/25) 11:30 Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency (1/11); American Experience: Panama Canal (1/25)
Wednesdays
7:00 Independent Lens 7:30 Snap Judgment (1/12) 8:00 Frontline 11:00 Synchronized Swimming (1/5); Afropop
Thursdays
7:00 Independent Lens: Children of Haiti (1/13); NOVA ScienceNow (1/20, 1/27) 8:00 NOVA 11:00 Volcanoes of New Mexico (1/6); Haiti’s Past, Present and Future (1/13); Leonardo’s Dream Machines (1/20, 1/27) 11:30 Journey to Palomar (1/6)
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Wed and Sun: Garden Smart/Garden Home (S); Ask This Old House; For Your Home; Katie Brown Workshop
Arts and Crafts
(5-6 am; 11-noon; 5-6 pm; 11-midnight) Sun and Wed: Knit and Crochet Now; Passport and Palette Mon and Fri: Martha’s Sewing Room; Donna Dewberry Show Tue and Thu: Scheewe Art Workshop; Best of the Joy of Painting
Saturday Marathons in January
A six-hour block of themed programming Jan. 1: Like New Journey to “new” places: New York, New Orleans, New Jersey’s Atlantic City, New Zealand and New England. Jan. 8: Ladies Stir It Up Bake with the Grand Dame of the kitchen, Julia Child, and cook with Daisy, Lidia, Rachel and Tina. Jan. 15: The Spice is Right Create’s master chefs show you how to add zest to your menus with spices and herbs. Jan. 22: Kids Only From the kitchen to the garden to the workshop, we provide projects kids can make and enjoy. Jan. 29: Rough Cut Whether you’re a novice or a skilled woodcrafter, you’ll benefit from Tommy Mac’s step-by-step techniques.
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See the full Create and World schedules at will.illinois.edu
Fridays
7:00 Pioneers of Television (1/7) 7:30 American Masters: Jeff Bridges (1/14) 8:00 Synchronized Swimming (1/7); Pioneers of Television (1/21, 1/28) 11:00 Pioneers of Television (1/7); American Masters: The Doors (1/14); Baseball (1/21, 1/28)
Saturdays
7:00 In Search of Myths and Heroes (1/1) 7:30 Independent Lens (1/22) 8:00 Conquistadors with Michael Wood (1/1); POV (1/8, 1/29); Independent Lens (1/15); 8:30 Global Voices (1/22) 9:00 Conquistadors with Michael Wood (1/1) 9:30 Global Voices (1/8, 1/29) 10:00 Conquistadors with Michael Wood (1/1); POV (1/15, 1/22) 10:30 Power of the Poor (1/8); Global Voices (1/29) 11:00 Conquistadors with Michael Wood 11:30 Global Voices (1/8); POV (1/15); Engineering the Golden Age of Green (1/22); Independent Lens (1/29)
Sundays
7:00 Washington Week 7:30 McLaughlin Group 8:00 Independent Lens (1/2); Need to Know (1/9, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30) 9:00 Global Voices 10:00 Global Voices (1/2, 1/9); Snap Judgment (1/23); World’s Toughest Math Contest (1/30) 10:30 Snap Judgment (1/16) 11:00 Washington Week 11:30 McLaughlin Group
daytime
David Thiel, Program Director
Monday - Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Market to Market (M) Nightly Business Report (T-F)
5:00
Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
French in Action
Body Electric (M, W, F) Sit and Be Fit (T, Th)
5:30
Angelina Ballerina
Destinos
Between the Lions
Curious George
Curious George
The Cat in the Hat Super WHY!
The Cat in the Hat Super WHY!
Dinosaur Train
Dinosaur Train
Thomas & Friends
Cyberchase
Bob the Builder
Fetch!
Sid the Science Kid
Electric Company
Sid the Science Kid
6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00
A Place of Our Own Growing a Greener World
Word Girl Woodsmith Shop
WordWorld
10:30 Around the House with Matt
Clifford Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY! Dinosaur Train Sesame Street
Motorweek
Super Why!
and Shari 11:00 Illinois Gardener
Barney & Friends
11:30 Victory Garden
Market to Market
The Cat in the Hat
Noon America’s Test Kitchen
The McLaughlin Group
A Place of Our Own
12:30 Cook's Country
Sewing Programs
1:00
Simply Ming
eligion + Ethics R Newsweekly Specials
1:30
Avec Eric
2:00
Martin Yan’s Hidden China
2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00
Lidia’s Italy
Electric Company/ Fetch! (F)
4:30
This Old House Hour
BBC World News
5:00
Nightly Business Report
5:30
Rick Steves’ Europe
PBS NewsHour
6:00
Lawrence Welk
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How Tos
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Painting and How To Programs
Martha Speaks Arthur WordGirl Wild Kratts/Sci Girls (F) Design Squad Nation (begins 1/28) (F)
1:00 pm Sewing M: Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Tu: Sewing with Nancy W: Quilting Arts Th: Martha’s Sewing Room F: Knitting Daily
Illinois Adventure Heartland Highways Hometime
America’s Heartland
1/2 1:00, Building Alaska 2:30, Call of the Wild 4:00, A Wild American Forest 1/9 1:00, American Experience:Robert E. Lee 2:30, Yellowstone:Land to Life 3:00, Masterpiece Classic: My Boy Jack 1/16 1:00, American Experience: U.S. Grant 2:30, Breakfast Special 3:30, Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey 1/23 1:00, American Experience: Dinosaur Wars 2:00, Wild South 2:30. Pioneers of Television 3:30. Masterpiece Classic 1/30 1:00, American Experience: Panama Canal 2:30, Pioneers of Television 3:30, Masterpiece Classic
Hustle
1:30 pm Painting and How To M: Best of Joy of Painting Tu: Paint This with Jerry Yarnell W: Wild Gardens/ Artist Toolbox (begins 1/19) Th: B Organic F: Painting with Paulson
Doctor Who 2:00 pm How Tos M: Rough Cut/ Wood turning Workshop (begins 1/17) Tu: Wai Lana Yoga W: Garden Smart Th: For Your Home F: Woodwright’s Shop PATTERNS • JANUARY 2011 9
WILL-TV january tv features
A local connection to documenting Japan
Examining the 40-year career of Jeff Bridges
In 1961, University of Chicago graduate student Keith Brown traveled to Japan to gather data for a dissertation on Japanese kinship. From his immersion in village life grew friendships and family-like bonds that have endured for a half century. Can’t Go Native, produced by U of I professor emeritus David Plath, features Brown, his bicycle, small notecards and a simple camera as he documents everyday life and the human relations that anchor Japanese society in the currents of global change. The program airs at 9 pm Tuesday, Jan. 18.
2010 Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges has been called “the most natural and least selfconscious screen actor that has ever lived” by critic Pauline Kael. Beyond his brilliance as an actor, Bridges is an exceptional musician, a photographer, an occasional vintner and a storyteller. American Masters profiles this member of an illustrious Hollywood family who began his career as a child actor working with his father Lloyd and brother Beau on the television program Sea Hunt. His casual, easygoing manner has endeared him to audiences for almost 40 years, starting with The Last Picture Show in 1971. After the lifechanging role of Bad Blake in Crazy Heart in 2009, he returns to the screen with Tron Legacy and as Rooster Cogburn in the remake of True Grit, directed by the Coen Brothers.
A Great Performances start to 2011 Continuing its longstanding holiday tradition, Great Performances returns to the splendor of Vienna’s Musikverein for its 27th annual From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration, featuring the Vienna Philharmonic. Franz Welser-Most leads a festive selection of Strauss Family favorites at 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 1.
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WILL-TV Masterpiece Classic premieres 40th season Created by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park), Downton Abbey depicts the lives of the noble Crawley family and the staff who serve them, set at their Edwardian country house in 1912. When the Titanic goes down, Lord Grantham loses his immediate heirs and his daughter Mary loses her fiancé, throwing Downton Abbey into turmoil. The new heir turns out to be Matthew, a lowly lawyer with novel ideas about country life. This new fourpart series from Masterpiece Classic stars Hugh Bonneville, Dame Maggie Smith and Elizabeth McGovern. Downton Abbey airs at 8 pm Sundays beginning Jan. 9.
Exploring television genres Pioneers of Television returns at 7 pm Tuesday, Jan. 18, with a new four-part series about the inception of the most popular genres in television: science fiction, crime dramas, local kids’ TV and westerns. From Star Trek to Bonanza, learn how the program stars, including Stefanie Powers (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.) and Robert Conrad, right, (Wild Wild West), helped create the programs that kept viewers tuning in week after week.
The cons take on the bad guys Follow the exploits of a group of five expert con artists as they target the amoral on the streets of London. Hustle, an action-packed drama with humor and intrigue, debuts at 8 pm Thursday, Jan. 6, and stars Robert Vaughn, below center, Jaime Murray, Adrian Lester (Primary Colors), Marc Warren (Band of Brothers), Robert Glenister and Ashley Walters.
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WILL-TV Friday Night Public Affairs 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Need to Know
BritCom Saturday Night 8:00 As Time Goes By 8:30 The Old Guys 9:00 Keeping Up Appearances 9:30 Chef! 10:00 Red Green Show 10:30 Doctor Who 11:15 Doctor Who Confidential
1Saturday am 10:00 Longevity Tai Chi with Arthur Rosenfeld 11:00 Exercise to Heal: Stretching with Karen Holden Noon Easy Yoga for Arthritis with Peggy Cappy pm 1:00 Dr. Christiane Northrup’s Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom 3:00 Jillian Michaels Master Your Metabolism 4:30 ADD and Loving It?! 7:00 Great Performances (TV-G) From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2011. See article page 10. Repeated 1:30 am Sunday. 8:30 As Time Goes By 9:00 Keeping Up Appearances 9:30 Chef! 10:30 Doctor Who: Waters of Mars 11:33 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Cheap Trick.
2Sunday
7:00 Nature (TV-PG) American Eagle. Three-time Emmy-winning cinematographer Neil Rettig captures the drama of bald eagles raising their young as they continue to battle back from near extinction. Repeated 4 am Tuesday. 8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) My Boy Jack. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City) star in the story of Rudyard Kipling’s son Jack, who triggers a bitter family conflict when he joins the Irish Guard at the outset of World War I. Repeated midnight Monday; 2 am Tuesday; 1:30 am Saturday; and 3 pm 1/9. 10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-G) (DVS) Paris City Guide 2. 11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Zach Brock.
3Monday
7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Miami Beach, Fla. Part 1 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday; and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 American Experience (TV-PG) Robert E. Lee. See article page 2. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 2 am Wednesday; and 1 pm Sunday. 9:30 Mortgage Crisis: Fighting Fraud (TV-G) This special offers detailed information on how to identify and avoid common foreclosure scams, as well as how to report scams. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine
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10:29 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
4Tuesday
7:00 NOVA (TV-PG) (DVS) Killer Subs In Pearl Harbor. With unprecedented access to the USS Arizona wreckage, NOVA joins an exclusive dive near Pearl Harbor to trace new clues on the sinking of this battleship. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 4 am Thursday. 8:00 Frontline (TV-14) Death by Fire. An investigation into the controversial Texas death penalty case of Cameron Todd Willingham, convicted for the arson deaths of his three young children. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 1 am Sunday. 9:00 Independent Lens (TV-G) Men Who Swim. A look at a group of middleaged men—train engineers and meat buyers, archivists and teachers—who found unlikely success as members of Sweden’s all-male synchronized swimming team. Repeated 3 am Thursday; and 2 am Sunday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
5Wednesday
7:00 Masters of the Arctic Ice (TV-PG) Two teams of researchers are racing to discover how global warming is rocking the Arctic world and affecting the creatures that depend on the Arctic ice. Repeated 1 am Friday; and 4 am Monday. 8:00 Great Performances at the Met (TV-G) Don Pasquale. See article page 17. Repeated midnight Thursday; 2 am Friday; and 1:30 am Monday. 10:29 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
6Thursday
7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 Illinois Pioneers Media History. A look back at the golden age of journalism in Champaign-Urbana which featured as many as seven local newspapers, including four dailies. 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) See article page 11. 9:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
7Friday
7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See above left. 8:30 New Glass at Wheaton Explore the world of New Jersey’s Creative Glass Center of America, where fellowship artists live and work together. 9:00 Friday Night Mystery (TV-PG) (DVS) Masterpiece Mystery! Miss Marple, Series IV: A Pocket Full of Rye. Miss Marple investigates the deaths of a businessman, his young wife and their housemaid.
WILL-TV 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
8Saturday
7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Miami Beach, Fla. Part 1 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12. 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Monsters of Folk.
9Sunday
7:00 Nature (TV-PG) Elsa’s Legacy: The Born Free Story. A retrospective look at the story of the rescue of three lion cubs, including one named Elsa. Repeated 4 am Tuesday. 8:00 Masterpiece Classic Downton Abbey. Part 1 of 4. See article page 11. Repeated midnight Monday; 2 am Tuesday; 1:30 am Saturday; and 3:30 pm 1/16. 9:30 A Brighter Future (TV-G) A study of the relationship between singing in a choir and success in life through the experiences of inner city youth. 10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-G) Finland & The Baltic States. 11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G) Jake Shimabukuro.
10Monday
7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Miami Beach, Fla. Part 2 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday; and 3 am and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 American Experience (TV-PG) U.S. Grant: Warrior. See article page 2. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 2 am Wednesday; and 1 pm Sunday. 9:30 Secrets In America: The Crisis of Elder Abuse (TV-G) A look at the frightening growth of financial abuse of elderly Americans, along with information and resources.
10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
11Tuesday
7:00 NOVA (TV-PG) Deadliest Earthquake. Follow a team of U.S. geologists as they hunt for crucial evidence into what triggered a series of epic earthquakes in 2010, including deadly quakes in Haiti and Chile. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 4 am Thursday. 8:00 Frontline Battle for Haiti. In the chaos of last year’s earthquake, thousands of the country’s worst criminals escaped from the National Penitentiary. Now Frontline examines the uphill fight to rebuild Haiti while gang leaders are reasserting control in the capital city. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 1 am Sunday. 9:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG) Children of Haiti. This film follows three orphan teens, part of an estimated 500,000 orphans in Haiti forgotten by their own people, who dream of better lives while they do what they must to survive each day. Repeated 3 am Thursday; and 2 am Sunday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
12Wednesday
7:00 American Masters (TV-PG) Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides. See article page 10. Repeated midnight Thursday; 1 am Friday; and 1:30 am Monday. 8:30 American Masters (TV-14) The Doors: When You’re Strange. Using only original footage, this feature documentary chronicles the talents, music and on-stage chemistry of The Doors. Repeated 1:30 am Thursday; 2:30 am Friday; and 3 am Monday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
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13Thursday 7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 Illinois Pioneers Schools. Discover the leaders and history of Champaign’s schools, including one woman’s experience during racial integration. 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) See article page 11. 9:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
14Friday
7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12. 8:30 John Wooden: The Indiana Years (TV-G) A celebration of the life of the legendary basketball player, coach and inspirational teacher (1910-2010), told through archival photos and interviews. 9:00 Friday Night Mystery (TV-PG) (DVS) Masterpiece Mystery! Miss Marple, Series IV: Murder Is Easy. Miss Marple tracks the killer responsible for a string of murders in a peaceful village town, unearthing secrets about the village and its inhabitants. 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
15Saturday
7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Miami Beach, Fla. Part 2 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12. 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) The National/Band of Horses.
16Sunday
7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) White Falcon, White Wolf. On Canada’s remote Ellesmere Island—where June is spring, July is summer and August is autumn—the race is on for two remarkable species to raise their families. Repeated 4 am Tuesday. 8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey. Part 2 of 4. See article page 11. Repeated midnight Monday; 2 am Tuesday; 1:30 am Saturday; and 3:30 pm 1/23. 9:30 Wild South (TV-G) (DVS) Explore three beautiful wilderness areas: the Southern Appalachian Mountains, the Florida Everglades and Puerto Rico’s Caribbean National Forest. 10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-G) (DVS) Holy Lands: Jerusalem & The West Bank. 11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G) Exile and Carla Gover.
17Monday
7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Miami Beach, Fla. Part 3 of 3. Repeated 1 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; and 3 am and 7 pm Saturday.
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8:00 American Experience (TV-PG) Dinosaur Wars. See article page 2. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 2 am Wednesday; and 1 pm Sunday. 9:00 After The Wall—A World United (TV-PG) Following the November 1989 opening of the Berlin Wall, a momentous diplomatic effort among three world leaders helped re-make East Germany after 40 years of hostility. Repeated 3 am Wednesday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
18Tuesday
7:00 Pioneers of Television (TV-G) Science Fiction. Part 1 of 4. See article page 11. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; 4 am Thursday; 1 am Friday; and 2:30 pm Sunday. 8:00 Frontline Are We Safer? Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the growing reach of homeland security, fusion centers and data collecting into the lives of ordinary Americans. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 2 am Thursday; and 1 am Sunday. 9:00 Can’t Go Native? (TV-G) See article page 10. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
19Wednesday
7:00 NOVA ScienceNOW (TV-PG) Can We Make It to Mars? Could humans survive the two- to three-year trip to Mars, fraught with deadly meteoroids, bone and muscle wasting and perilous levels of radiation? Repeated midnight Thursday; 3 am Friday; and 3 am Monday. 8:00 NOVA (TV-G) Making Stuff: Stronger. Part 1 of 4. See article page 1. Repeated 1 am Thursday; 4 am Friday; and 4 am Monday. 9:00 Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist (TV-PG) (DVS) Mixing humor and heartbreak, this program delves into the lab of professor Dr. Lawrence Shapiro to follow three irrepressible graduate students as they pursue Ph.D. degrees and race to publish their scientific findings. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
20Thursday
7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 Illinois Pioneers Vice & Bootlegging. Look back at a time when Champaign offered a walk on the wild side. 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) See article page 11. 9:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
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21Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12. 8:30 Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies See article page 3. Repeated 9:30 pm Sunday. 9:00 Friday Night Mystery (TV-PG) (DVS) Masterpiece Mystery! Miss Marple, Series IV: They Do It with Mirrors. Miss Marple is asked to help her old friend Carrie-Louise, who has been slowly poisoned by an unknown hand. 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
22Saturday
7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Miami Beach, Fla. Part 3 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12. 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Sonic Youth/The Black Keys.
23Sunday
7:00 Nature (TV-G) Birds of the Gods. David Attenborough introduces a young team of New Guinean scientists as they undertake a grueling expedition to find and film birds of paradise in their country’s rainforest. Repeated 4 am Tuesday. 8:00 Masterpiece Classic Downton Abbey. Part 3 of 4. See article page 11. Repeated midnight Monday; 2 am Tuesday; 1:30 am Saturday; and 3:30 pm 1/30. 9:30 Roger Ebert Presents at the Movies Repeated from 8:30 pm Friday. 10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-G) (DVS) Senegal & Cape Verde. 11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G) George Winston.
24Monday
7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) San Diego, Calif. Part 1 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday; and 3 am and 7 pm Saturday.
8:00 American Experience (TV-PG) Panama Canal. See article page 2. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 2 am Wednesday; and 1 pm Sunday. 9:30 Historic Railway Lodges of the West (TV-G) (DVS) A look at the history and accommodations of four lodges built between 1910 and 1939— Belton Chalet, Izaak Walton Inn, Glacier Park Lodge and La Posada Hotel—that still have direct Amtrak passenger train service to within 500 yard of their front doors. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:29 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
25Tuesday
7:00 Pioneers of Television (TV-G) Westerns. Part 2 of 4. See article page 11. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; 4 am Thursday; 1 am Friday; and 2:30 pm Sunday. 8:00 Frontline The Wounded Platoon. The dark tale of the war in Iraq, including the heroism, grief, vicious combat, depression, drugs and alcohol that have followed soldiers home to Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 2 am Thursday; and 1 am Sunday. 9:00 Independent Lens (TV-G) Herb & Dorothy. Filmmaker Megumi Sasaki highlights how one couple defied stereotypes to redefine what it means to be an art collector. Repeated 3 am Thursday; and 2 am Sunday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
26Wednesday
7:00 NOVAScienceNOW (TV-PG) How Smart Are Animals? Host Neil deGrasse Tyson explores how well we can understand what is going on in the brains of non-human animals and whether our pets have the same feelings we do. Repeated midnight Thursday; 3 am Friday; and 3 am Monday. PATTERNS • JANUARY 2011 15
WILL-TV 8:00 NOVA (TV-G) Making Stuff: Smaller. Part 2 of 4. See article page 1. Repeated 1 am Thursday; 4 am Friday; and 4 am Monday. 9:00 Solar Car: The Secrets of Ra7 (TV-G) Follow one team of students in the 2009 World Solar Challenge as they compete against other teams by building a vehicle powered by solar energy, then driving it 1800 miles through the Australian Outback. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
27Thursday
7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 Illinois Pioneers Restaurants. 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) See article page 11. 9:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:29 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
28Friday
7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12. 8:30 Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies Repeated 9:30 pm Sunday. 9:00 Friday Night Mystery (TV-PG) (DVS) Masterpiece Mystery! Miss Marple, Series IV: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? As the sole witness to a dying man’s last words, a young adventurer seeks to solve the riddle they pose by forming an unlikely alliance with Miss Marple and a beautiful socialite. 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
29Saturday
8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12. 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Lyle Lovett/Bob Schneider.
30Sunday
7:00 Nature Born Wild: The First Days of Life. Discover how animals interacting with their young, wrestling with the feelings and dilemmas that come with raising a baby, can mirror our human experiences. 8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey. Part 4 of 4. See article page 11. Repeated midnight Monday. 9:30 Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies Repeated from 8:30 pm Friday. 10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-G) (DVS) Madrid City Guide. 11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G) Jakob Dylan with Neko Case and Jayme Stone with Yacouba Sissoko.
31Monday
7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) San Diego, Calif. Part 2 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday; and 3 am and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 American Experience (TV-PG) Greely Expedition. Drawing on scientific accounts, diaries, photographs and letters, this harrowing tale shows how poor planning, personality clashes, questionable decisions and pure bad luck conspired to turn a noble scientific mission into a human tragedy. 9:00 Chautauqua: An American Narrative (TV-G) A look at the history and impact of the Chautauqua Institution, founded 135 years ago as a place of learning, renewal and inspiration for the arts, philosophy, current events, religion and education. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:29 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) San Diego, Calif. Part 1 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.
Sunday, January 30, 2011 • 6:30 pm The Canopy Club, Urbana Irving Fine: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Hilary Tann: Winter Sun, Summer Rain Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel Another Way Gabriel Pierné: Ballet du cour Igor Stravinsky: Octet Michael Daugherty: Dead Elvis Scott Joplin: Sun Flower Slow Drag James Reese Europe: Castle Walk Order tickets online at www.PrairieEnsemble.org or call 217-355-9077 16 PATTERNS JANUARY 2011
WILL-TV Saving the animal world Wild Kratts, a new half-hour adventure comedy from Chris and Martin Kratt—creators of hit shows such as Kratt’s Creatures, Zoboomafoo and Be the Creature—debuts at 4 pm Friday, Jan. 3, as part of WILL-TV’s kids line-up. In their first-ever animated series, the Kratt brothers are on a mission to save animals from the evil Zach Varmitech, who plans to create a legion of biotech robots. With this program addition, The Electric Company moves to 4:30 pm Monday-Thursday, with Fetch! on Friday.
Don’t miss Otto Schenk’s Don Pasquale Anna Netrebko revives her performance in Schenk’s acclaimed version of Donizetti’s sophisticated bel canto comedy for this new program from Great Performances at the Met. She’s joined by Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien and John Del Carlo in the title role. Met music director James Levine conducts the production The New York Times termed “brilliant” and “wonderful” when it premiered in 2006. Don Pasquale airs at 8 pm Wednesday, Jan. 5. s
Anna Netrebko as Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale.
Photo: Living Images by Carol Walker
Welcome The Old Guys to BritCom Saturday Night After an overwhelming response during the Great BritCom Vote XI in March 2010, The Old Guys slides into the 8:30 pm slot beginning Jan. 8. The new sitcom from BBC One stars Roger Lloyd Pack (Owen Newitt, Vicar of Dibley) as Tom, Clive Swift (Richard Bucket, Keeping Up Appearances) as Roy, movie and TV actress Jane Asher as their neighbor, Sally, and Katherine Parkinson as Tom’s daughter, Amber.
New Design Squad Nation joins lineup
s Judy Lee and Adam Vollmer
The producers of the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning engineering and reality competition series Design Squad take their show on the road with a new spin-off series for tweens, teens and families. In Design Squad Nation, engineer co-hosts Judy Lee and Adam Vollmer travel across the country and around the world to work side by side with kids in turning their dreams into reality. Premiering at 4 pm Friday, Jan. 28, the program shows that engineering is about being active in the world, taking risks, collaborating with interesting people and using science, math and technology to solve real problems. PATTERNS • JANUARY 2011 17
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TV schedule changes take effect
FRONTLINE
By David Thiel, WILL-TV Program Director With a new year come changes to our evening lineup. Most notably, NOVA will move from its traditional Tuesday to Wednesdays at 8 pm, beginning Jan. 19. PBS research suggests NOVA may better reach its intended s David Thiel audience airing an hour later. This move also gives PBS the opportunity to create themed Wednesday evenings of science programming without disrupting Frontline. Meanwhile, I’m trying out a couple of tweaks of my own with the intention of exposing as many people as possible to our newly purchased British series, Hustle.
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This program will air Thursdays at 8 pm, one of the times of highest overall TV viewership. Also supported by PBS research, This Old House will slide back an hour to 9 pm. Both shows will be repeated on weekends for those watching something else on Thursdays. More controversial may be when The Old Guys takes the 8:30 pm slot Keeping Up Appearances has occupied since 1998. (Not to worry, Appearances will air at 9 pm.) It’s scary to split up the popular combo of As Time Goes By and Appearances, but an effective way to introduce a show is to sandwich it between two hits. It’s my belief that viewers who enjoy Clive Swift as Hyacinth’s hubby will want to see his latest Britcom! I know that these changes won’t please everyone, but I hope that you’ll give our new shows a try!
Would you put your child on a plane that had a 70% chance of landing safely? By Kimberlie Kranich, Director of Community Engagement Most parents, when asked this question, would say, “No, that’s a risk I’m not willing to take.” What about other risks with the same odds? Are we willing to take those? Consider that 30 percent of all high school students in the United States drop out of high school. For African-American and Latino students, that number rises to 50 percent. Public media are aware of the numbers and are in the process of creating a multi-year, multimillion dollar initiative to respond. At the end of October, I attended a special consultation at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) on the dropout crisis. General managers from public TV and radio stations attended, along with national nonprofits (such as America’s Promise Alliance and Communities in Schools) and youth media practitioners. We brainstormed how to create sustained awareness through content that generates dialogue and promotes engagement as well as funding the development and implementation of engaging educational resources for at-risk youth. Illinois Public Media was asked to attend because of our Youth Media Workshop
(YMW) which teaches African-American youth to create media over the course of a school year. Founded by William Patterson in 2000, YMW has been part of Illinois Public Media since 2003. Since then, we have created a space within the YMW conducive for academic achievement and social responsibility by giving youth a voice, connecting them to elder AfricanAmericans and increasing their technical and social skills. Some argue that dropping out of high school is a national security issue. If the majority of the U.S. population will be people of color very soon, and 50 percent of young people of color aren’t completing high school, who will be doing surgery? Building buildings? These are far-reaching questions that many are addressing now, including public media. As CPB implements this initiative, I will be sure to keep you informed.
Send us your
quick, healthy recipes If you have a recipe that helps you get simple, quick and nutritious meals on the table, please send it to us for a new WILLTV cooking show in June. We’ll use many of the submitted recipes in an accompanying cookbook, plus we’ll be inviting some cooks to appear on the show to help host Jay Pearce learn to prepare their recipes.
Mail the recipes to: Jay Pearce Illinois Public Media 300 N. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL 61801-2316 Or email them to will-tv@uiuc.edu and put “healthy cooking” in the subject line.
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s Hilary Frost-Kumpf and Michael Purnell
WILL-TV useful to couple personally and professionally Michael Purnell of Springfield has learned car care and repair from MotorWeek, home repair from This Old House and Ask This Old House, and woodworking from New Yankee Workshop. “I enjoy planning and completing projects and being self-sufficient. Watching WILLTV helps me with both,” he said. “The how-to programs, as well as the news, documentary and science programs, are among the many benefits WILL-TV provides to me and to the community.” It’s one of the reasons he and his wife, Hilary Frost-Kumpf, choose to be donors to WILL. While Michael, a retired state environment and energy programs manager, relishes the how-to information he gets, Hilary says she’s appreciative of information on WILL-TV that she can pass on to her global studies students at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
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“BBC News, Need to Know, Frontline and Global Voices keep me abreast of the latest issues, which I then share with my students. NOVA, Nature, American Experience and so many others are also valuable to Michael and me,” she said. Hilary said she regularly requires students in her classes to use readings and videos from PBS. “Frontline and Frontline/World have been particularly rich sources. Their website not only provides links to videos, but also extensive background readings on the topics. Many of my students use that site for their research papers,” she said. “Because we so frequently use what we learn from watching WILL-TV, both personally and professionally, we think it’s important to support the station financially so that it can continue to inform us and other viewers as well,” Hilary said.
Thanks to our underwriters who made this WILL production possible Part of our responsibility as a public media station is to help support, enhance and showcase the communities we serve. One of many ways we accomplish that is by producing our own informative and/or entertaining programs, but we could never do it alone. So we’re incredibly grateful for the generous support of our Corporate Underwriters—those area businesses who partner with us to create locally focused WILL productions. The most recent example, Winter Voices: An A Cappella Holiday, featured six of central Illinois’ best a cappella singing
groups presenting music of the season on WILL-TV. The show aired four times in December and included performances by: the Prairie Blend Quartet, ChampaignUrbana; the Danville Chorus of Sweet Adelines; the Rip Chords, University of Illinois; Sound Celebration Chorus of Springfield; Champaign-Urbana Sweet Adelines; and the Tone Rangers from Millikin University in Decatur. We send our deepest appreciation and thanks to the Corporate Underwriters listed below who made Winter Voices possible.
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Let us know six weeks in advance of moving so that we can make the proper change.
Fill out the form below and send it with your address label to: Friends of WILL, 300 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801-2316
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