May / June 2012 • WSIU-TV Member Guide
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May / June 2012
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Jesse Owens: American Experience Tue • 5/1, 7pm
Nature: Salmon: Running the Gauntlet Wed • 5/23, 7pm
Great Performances at the Met: Ernani Sun • 6/24, 1pm
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On the Cover Join co-hosts Gary Sinise and Joe Montegna for this year’s National Memorial Day Concert, an annual salute to our nation’s men and women in uniform. Broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, the concert will feature an all-star line-up of dignitaries, actors, and musical artists in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra. Tune in on Sunday, May 27 at 7pm. Front/Back Cover Designs: Beth Radtke
SIU Board of Trustees
Inside Previews
SIU Administration
UpFront With Greg Petrowich; WSIU Salutes Graduates 3 Programming Highlights & Station News 4-7 WSIU, PBS WORLD, and CREATE Schedules 8-9 May Listings 10-15 June Listings 16-21 New PBS KIDS Program & Specials; Read Across America 22 Memorial Day Specials; Save the Date: WSIU 50th Events 23 Illinois PBS LearningMedia 24
Chair: John Simmons, East Alton Vice-Chair: Ed Hightower, Edwardsville Secretary: Mark Hinrichs, O’Fallon Members: Roger Herrin, Harrisburg; Ed Hightower, Edwardsville; Mark Hinrichs, O’Fallon; Donald Lowery, Golconda; Donna Manering, Makanda; John Simmons, East Alton; Marquita Wiley, Belleville. Student Trustees: Alex Vansaghi, SIUC; Jeffry Harrison, SIUE President: Glenn W. Poshard Chancellor: Rita Cheng Provost and Vice Chancellor: John Nicklow Dean, College of Mass Communication & Media Arts: Gary Kolb
WSIU Public Broadcasting
Executive Director: Greg Petrowich Associate Director, Finance & Administration: Delores Kerstein Associate Director, Technology & Planning: Terry Harvey Associate Director, TV & Video Services: Darryl Moses TV News Director / River Region Evening Edition: Greg Todd Director of Corporate Support, Marketing & Grants: Ren e Ferrell Dillard TV Programming & On Air Coordinator: Trina Thomas Promotions / Graphics Coordinator, Publications Editor: Monica Tichenor Promotions Graduate Students: Katie Tullis, Graduate Assistant; Katrina Stackhouse Student Promotions/Graphics Assistants: Calvin Dixon, Jordan Figura, Beth Radtke
WSIU Friends Board
Lane Hudgins, President, Murphysboro; Roopa Gulati, Vice-President, Makanda; Martha Cropper, Secretary, Murphysboro; Rebecca Whittington, Benton; Edward Benyas, Carol Burns, Robin Haller, Kim Harris, Anne Hill, Candis Isberner, Gayle Klam, Barbara Lesar, Scott McClatchey, Greg Petrowich (Ex-officio), Rebecca Pirmann, Emil Spees, Andrew Staff, Carbondale; Lu Ann Walker Maddox, Harrisburg; Jean Pulliam, Makanda; Susie Phillips, R.J. Robertson, Jr., Murphysboro. Emeritus: Mary Ann Kellerman, Cape Girardeau, MO; Lana Bardo, Richard Bradley, Kay Dosier, Norma Ewing, Gary Hill, Carbondale; E.J. Helleny, Herrin; Ann Marie Shepherd, Makanda; Patricia Prevedell Rath, Murphysboro; John Reed, Olney.
Mission WSIU Public Broadcasting exists to improve the quality of life of the people we serve. Through programs, services, and outreach, WSIU partners with other community organizations to promote positive change, and to support the academic and public service missions of Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Vision WSIU Public Broadcasting is an essential public resource that combines the power of media with the power of people to strengthen our communities.
Values WSIU Public Broadcasting strives to achieve our mission and vision by incorporating the values of integrity, fairness, balance, diversity, sustainability, collaboration, and excellence in making decisions and taking action.
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UpFront
with Greg Petrowich Save a Place for Mission
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ere is an excerpt of dialog those of us who work at WSIU frequently hear as we engage in discussions about the merits of public television. VIEWER: “We have so many channels of educational television these days, why do we still need PBS?” WSIU: “To which channels are you referring?” VIEWER: “The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The Learning Channel (TLC), A&E…don’t they all provide the kind of programming PBS was once known exclusively for? If they can make a ‘go’ of it commercially, why can’t PBS?” WSIU: “Have you looked at those channels recently?” VIEWER: “Sure, I watch them all the time.” Long pause... When these niche channels started years ago, they may have aspired to broadcast programs similar to PBS. In recent years, however, their programming schedules have changed dramatically. A case in point, the 7pm listings for April 11, 2012. Discovery Channel: Two episodes of Sons of Guns. History Channel: Two episodes of Pawn Stars. The Learning Channel: Two episodes of My Crazy Obsession. A&E: Two episodes of Storage Wars. And on WSIU: Nature (without commercial interruption). Now, let’s look at 8pm the same night. Discovery Channel: Sons of Guns (different episode). History Channel: Sold! The Learning Channel: Toddlers and Tiaras. A&E: Dog the Bounty Hunter. And on WSIU: NOVA (without commercials). To be fair, these channels occasionally air programs that might be considered comparable to PBS programming. Discovery Channel’s Frozen Planet (co-produced with the BBC) is one example. My point is not to indict these other channels for their programming choices, but to point out the increasingly obvious difference between their mission and ours. As a commercial enterprise, these channels are designed to return a profit to shareholders. They air programming that will draw the largest audience in order to maximize commercial revenue. It’s a fine business model, but it is radically different from WSIU’s service mission. By comparison, WSIU brings you the highest-quality programs across all genres. Think Nature, NOVA, Frontline, WSIU InFocus, American Experience, Expressions, Masterpiece, and Globe Trekker, along with the award-winning films of Ken Burns, such as The Civil War, The National Parks, and Prohibition. Through these and other programs, WSIU provides universal access to the arts, culture, history, and science. We engage people more deeply in the world around them. We open the door to new ideas and perspectives. We inspire lifelong learning. So, do we really need PBS in today’s 500-channel universe? I think so, and I hope you do, too. Thank you for watching and supporting WSIU.
Greg Petrowich Executive Director WSIU Public Broadcasting greg.petrowich@wsiu.org
Congratulations, WSIU Graduates!
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irector. News Anchor. Reporter. Videographer. Photographer. Graphic Designer. Operations Assistant. Lighting Director. Board Operator. Producer. Promotions & Outreach Assistant. Audio Technician. Office & Accounting Assistant. Master Control Operator. What do these titles have in common? They are just a few of the many positions filled by students at the WSIU stations. Each year, over 100 students gain experience in all aspects of the broadcast industry while working at WSIU. Many of our students go on to great careers at highprofile media organizations such as CNN, ESPN, Fox, ABC, NBC, and CBS, and at radio, television, and Internet outlets in the U.S. and abroad. We would like thank the following students for their service to the WSIU stations. Congratulations, graduates – and good luck in the future!
TV Production Dylan Damian, Carbondale, Ill., B.A. Radio-Television Nick Gresham, Chicago, Ill., B.A. Radio-Television Kristen Hafner, Davenport, Ia., B.A. Radio-Television Matthew Howard, Benton, Ill., B.A. Radio-Television Tamara John, Hanover Park, Ill., M.S. Professional Media & Media Management Studies Stephen Kersting, Springfield, Ill., B.A. Radio-Television (also worked in TV Master Control) Kyle Loughrin, Downers Grove, Ill., B.A. Radio-Television Amber Polczynski, Du Bois, Ill., B.A. Radio-Television Jennet Posey, Chicago, Ill., M.S., Professional Media & Media Management Studies April Stanley, Elk Grove, Ill., B.A. Radio-Television Trent Vandeven, Marble Hill, Mo., B.A. Radio-Television
TV Master Control Jovet Hutcherson, Danville, Ill., B.A. University Studies
Marshall Prince, Naperville, Ill., B.S. Electrical Engineering
FM News, Production/ Operations Robert Jesselson, Northbrook, Ill., B.A. Radio-Television (also worked for River Region Evening Edition) Curtis Sheehan, San Diego, Cal., B.A. Radio-Television Ben Woolard, Jonesboro, Ill., B.A. Radio-Television
SIRIS Randy Hopper, Bartlett, Ill., B.S. Music Business
Education & Outreach Danielle Farley, Rockford, Ill., B.S. Human Nutrition & Dietetics
Promotion & Graphics Jordan Figura, Melbourne, Fla., B.A. Radio-Television
Station Support Jimmy L. Gardner, Coulterville, Ill., B.A. Speech Communication
Lorren Lacey, Park Forest, Ill., B.S. Accounting
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Scholastic Hi-Q 2012 Finals
Photo: Beth Radtke.
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Fridays at 9pm Through June 1
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llinois Lawmakers returns with weekly public television coverage of the spring session of the Illinois General Assembly on Friday nights through June 1. The half-hour programs will be produced weekly at the Capitol Building in Springfield until the legislature’s adjournment on May 31. “Lawmakers really have their work cut out for them this spring,” says series host Jak Tichenor (shown above). Governor Pat Quinn called on legislators to cut $2.7-billion from the state’s Medicaid program for the poor and to undertake a massive overhaul of the state’s chronically under-funded pension systems.
“Neither action would be easy in a normal year in Springfield,” says Tichenor, “but the situation is made even more complicated by the fact that lawmakers will be running in newly-drawn districts this year due to legislative re-districting.” Now in its 26th season, Illinois Lawmakers is the longest-running television series covering the Illinois General Assembly. Produced on location at the Illinois Statehouse, Illinois Lawmakers features lively debates by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on the biggest issues of the day, in-depth interviews with legislative leaders, and expert analysis by veteran Statehouse journalists. Illinois Lawmakers is a production of WSIU Carbondale, WTVP Peoria, and Illinois Public Media (WILL) Urbana-Champaign. Learn more at illinoislawmakers.org.
The Tragedy of Bataan
Sunday, May 27 • 2pm (also airs 5/17, 12:30am)
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roduced by SIU Radio-Television associate professor Jan Thompson, The Tragedy of Bataan chronicles the fall of the Philippines and the Bataan Death March during World War II. The program aired on PBS stations nationwide in Fall 2011. Drawing (left): Ben Steele.
SIU’s single-elimination game show series Scholastic Hi-Q hosted 32 Southern Illinois scholar bowl teams in its 26th season, wrapping up with an exciting showdown between Carbondale High School (shown above) and Nashville High School, with Carbondale coming out on top. Congratulations to Carbondale and many thanks to all the teams who participated this year. A special thanks to this year’s Scholastic Hi-Q crew, headed by student producer and graduating senior, Amber Polczynski. Next season’s producer is John Guberund. Learn more about Hi-Q at wsiu.org/hiq. You can also find us on Facebook at facebook.com.
Scholastic Hi-Q Finals Broadcast Schedule May 6, 9:30am Nashville vs. Marion Quarterfinal #1 (repeat from 4/29) May 6, 5:30pm Central (Breese) vs. O’Fallon, Quarterfinal #2 (repeats 5/13, 9:30am) May 13, 5:30pm Carbondale vs. Centralia, Semifinal #1 (repeats 5/20, 9:30am) May 20, 5:30pm Nashville vs. O’Fallon, Semifinal #2 (repeats 5/27, 9:30am) May 27, 5:30pm Carbondale vs. Nashville, Championship (repeats 6/3, 9:30am) Scholastic Hi-Q on WSIU-TV is sponsored in part by Illinois Eastern Community Colleges (IECC).
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Sundays at 7pm • Through May 20
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on’t miss the last three episodes of the series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Professor Gates uses genealogy and genetics to uncover the unknown histories and relatives of his celebrity guests. When paper trails end for each guest’s story, Gates turns to top geneticists and DNA diagnosticians to analyze each participant’s genetic code, tracing their bloodlines, debunking family mysteries, and uncovering the truth.
MAY 6 Sanjay Gupta, Margaret Cho, and Martha Stewart (Part 8/10) Gupta, Cho, and Stewart are the children of first- or second-generation immigrants. This episode crissSanjay Gupta crosses the planet, from India to Korea to Poland, to catch a glimpse of three distinct, yet oddly overlapping, experiences of families leaving their homes and becoming American.
Photo: Courtesy of (C) BBC for Masterpiece.
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John Legend, Wanda Sykes, and Margarett Cooper (Part 9/10) Most African Americans struggle to trace their ancestors beyond Emancipation. But what about Wanda Sykes the descendants of the handful of free black people who evaded bondage during that terrible time?
MAY 20 Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier, and Linda Chavez (Part 10/10) Rodriguez, Grenier, and Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots. In this episode, Gates asks what it means to be Michelle Rodriquez Hispanic and finds that the answer lies in the tangled histories of European, Native American, and African peoples.
Masterpiece Mystery: sherlock, series 2 sundays at 8pm • may 6-20
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he struggle goes on in 21st-century London as the updated team of Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) battle the worst that modern criminality has to offer. Each episode in the new series is pegged to a classic Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – delightfully, weirdly, wittily, and briskly updated, of course.
A Scandal in Belgravia (May 6) Can a crafty dominatrix outsmart Sherlock at his own game?
The Hounds of Baskerville (May 13) Sherlock and Watson pursue information about research on genetically engineered animals for military use.
The Reichenbach Fall (May 20) Criminal mastermind Jim Moriarty (Andrew Scott) poses the “final problem” and a tabloid reporter reveals the “shocking truth” about Sherlock.
Civilization: The West and the Rest with Niall Ferguson
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Tuesdays, 7pm • May 22-29
or the past five centuries, Western civilizations have prevailed around the world. More people have been influenced by Western food, clothing, medicine, government, and religion worldwide than by any other civilization. What led the West to be so influential and powerful – and how long will the West’s supremacy last? Historian Niall Ferguson explores the reasons behind the West’s economic ascendancy and shares how the West can retain its edge through political pluralism, commercial competition, scientific development, and medical advances.
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May / June 2012
Sharing Stories at the Cape Storytelling Festival
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Shay Alderman of Cape Girardeau, Mo. Photo: Katie Tullis.
e love a good story… and so did hundreds of festival-goers at the 5th Annual Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival, held April 13-15.
Visitors had the opportunity to tell their favorite family story, funny tale, or poem at WSIU’s “Share a Story” audio recording booth on Saturday, April 14. Fourteen storytellers stopped by WSIU’s booth to share their stories. Children also enjoyed fun PBS KIDS activities and materials. This year’s storytellers included: Shay Alderman, Hope Botwinski, Richie
Flentge, Bruce Gentry, Don Greenwood, and Jordan Huff of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Elaine Abramson of Hazelwood, Mo.; Bella Carlson, Sheila Faire, and Jonell McNeely of Jackson, Mo.; Barbara Curtis of Warrensburg, Mo.; Joyce Daniels of Scott City, Mo., John Myers of Sikeston, Mo.; and Kathryn Tullis of Carbondale, Ill. Storytellers received a CD copy of their recording, and their stories will be featured online at wsiu.org. To hear stories from previous years, visit wsiu. org, and select “Radio Voices: The Storytellers” from the Radio tab. Outreach coordinator Vickie Devenport coordinated WSIU’s activities, with assistance from employee Ryan Kinsella, students Danielle Farley, Katie Tullis, and Randy Hopper, and volunteers Carolina Badiano and Terry Nolan.
WSIU Celebrates Native American Culture The event was made possible by co-hosts the Native American Student Organization and Native American Studies Minor at SIUC, numerous University departments and offices, and co-host Carbondale Main Street together with dozens of regional business and organizational supporters. Dancers perform during a colorful intertribal dance. Photo: Monica Tichenor.
WSIU would like to thank everyone who supported and attended this year’s event.
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or the second straight year, WSIU was proud to co-sponsor the Southern Illinois Saluki Pow Wow, a unique cultural event showcasing Native American art, music, culture, and food. Dancers from North American and Central American tribes gave exhibition dances throughout the day. Guests of all ages were invited to join dancers during intertribal and social dances. Over 1,700 visitors ranging in age from babies to seniors enjoyed dancing, drumming, and singing, traditional arts and crafts, and cultural presentations.
WSIU on the Road and in the Community May 1 | Word Girl Contest Worrrd up! Teachers should register online to enroll their classroom in the WordGirl Definition Contest, which streams online on May 1 at 12pm CT. After registering at scholastic.com/wordgirl, teachers can prepare for the competition by downloading the Event Kit to build students’ word power.
May 3 | Family Reading Night WSIU outreach staff will host a Family Reading Night featuring Rapunzel and the Super Readers from 6-8pm at Unity Point School in Carbondale. WSIU will present our new Raising Readers Theater performance with help from students at the school. SuperWHY will be on hand to take pictures with families. Please bring your cameras! Families also can use SuperWHY apps on their iPads at the event.
May 9 | SIU College of Education Week of Transition Conference Beth Spezia and Vickie Devenport will present two sessions during this teacher preparation conference. Spezia will present an interactive session entitled “Public Multimedia Resources for Grades K-3.” Vickie Devenport will give a presentation on Illinois PBS LearningMedia, a new online digital media resource for educators.
Week of May 13 | Martha Speaks Reading Buddies Celebration WSIU will help Giant City School celebrate their 5th year of participation in the Martha Speaks Reading Buddies program with fun activities and a visit by costume character Martha the Dog. Data collected locally by WSIU was included in a national research study, which revealed significant gains in literacy skills among children. WSIU’s project was featured in WGBH’s national “Shelter Dog” campaign and at a statewide teacher conference.
June 1-6 | Prix Jeunesse International 2012 in Munich, Germany
Children check out a wigwam in the demonstration area. Photo: Monica Tichenor.
WSIU outreach coordinator Beth Spezia and promotions staff member, Katie Tullis, who is also a second-year graduate student in the SIU College of Mass Communication & Media Arts, will attend this prestigious festival that selects the world’s best children’s and youth TV programs and interactive applications. Spezia and Tullis, who received research scholarships to attend the festival, will join SIU RadioTelevision chair Dafna Lemish at the festival.
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transforming illinois classrooms: Illinois PBS LearningMedia Makes an Impact
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SIU and its public media partners around the state have been busy this spring helping to launch and promote Illinois PBS LearningMedia, a free, ondemand media service offering 22,000 digital resources to improve PreK-12 classroom teaching and learning.
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Miller of WTVP in Peoria, Ke’an Armstrong of WEIU in Charleston, Jay Pearce of WVIK in Rock Island; and Clarise Kavooras of WDCB in Glen Ellyn. Christopher Koch, Illinois State Superintendent of Education, recently praised the new online education service. “Illinois PBS LearningMedia is a high quality tool teachers can use as they personalize lesson plans for classes and individual students. Having the ability to go to one place and search thousands of electronic resources that can be used immediately helps teachers make connections with their digital students.”
Shown (l-r): Mark Leonard and Molly Delaney, Illinois Public Media-WILL; Jay Pearce, WVIK; Beth Spezia, WSIU; Clarise Kavooras, WDCB; Linda Miller, WTVP; Ke’an Armstrong, WEIU; and Greg Petrowich, WSIU. Photo: WILL.
and talking about it!” said Rob Lippincott, PBS Senior Vice President, PBS Education. “As America’s largest classroom, PBS, in partnership with all Illinois member stations, is committed to offering innovative digital tools and resources for every teacher in Illinois and in classrooms nationwide.” Results of the pilot study are available online at http://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org.
wsiu hosts workshop
pilot study published
On Monday, March 5, WSIU and public media partners hosted a press conference at the Illinois State Capitol Building in Springfield to announce the official launch of Illinois PBS LearningMedia. Guest speakers included Mark Leonard, president of the Illinois Public Broadcasting Council and general manager of Illinois Public Media – WILL at the University of Illinois in Urbana, and WSIU executive director Greg Petrowich, who also heads the Education Committee of the Illinois Public Broadcasting Council.
WSIU and project partners recently published results of our fall 2011 pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of the service. Commissioned by the Illinois Public Broadcasting Council and created by Dr. Evangeline S. Pianfetti of the University of Illinois College of Education and other researchers, the study collected data from 74 teachers representing 43 public and private schools across the state. Results were unanimously positive and confirmed that digital resources help local teachers strengthen connections with students.
WSIU outreach staff member Beth Spezia was present, along with Molly Delaney of Illinois Public Media-WILL in Urbana, Linda
“We are very pleased to hear teachers finding the value that PBS LearningMedia is providing Illinois students and educators,
Music teacher Nelda Cameron of ROE 45 tries an Illinois PBS LearningMedia lesson at a workshop led by WSIU. Photo: Beth Spezia.
On March 20, WSIU hosted a professional development workshop for educators from the Monroe-Randolph Counties Regional Office of Education (ROE) 45. After a presentation about Illinois PBS LearningMedia led by WSIU outreach coordinator Vickie Devenport, educators tested the new online service. WSIU also presented certificates to educators who participated in the pilot study. To learn more about the service, visit http://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org.
WSIU To Host Final Community Cinema Screening Saturday, May 26 • 2:30pm | Carbondale Public Library
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ou’re invited to join WSIU for our final Spring 2012 Community Cinema film screening on May 26. The film scheduled is Strong!, which profiles Cheryl Haworth, a young weightlifter with a big dream: to be the strongest woman in the world. Dr. Bobbi Knapp, sports sociologist at SIU Carbondale, Jen Sewell, SIU associate softball coach, and Marian Appiah-Kubi, a former SIU track athlete and competitive body builder, will lead a discussion after the film. Photo at left: Ralph Tate (center, green shirt), director of the SIU School of Information Systems & Applied Technology, shows off his electric car after a screening and discussion of ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’ on March 31. Photo: Beth Radtke.
May / June 2012
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BBC World News
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Priscilla’s Yoga Stretches
5:30
Bob the Builder
Varies: Health & Wellness, Environmental Health, Travel
6am
Curious George
Curious George
Martha Speaks
6:30
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
Curious George
7am
Super WHY!
Super WHY!
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
7:30
Dinosaur Train
Dinosaur Train
Super WHY!
8am
Thomas & Friends
Clifford (R)
Dinosaur Train
8:30
Martha Speaks (R)
Angelina Ballerina
9am
The Electric Company (R)
Biz Kid$
DragonflyTV
Scholastic Hi-Q (R); June Special (6/10); Heartland Highways (beg. 6/17)
Sesame Street
9:30
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Peep & the Big Wide World; 10am Signing Time (R) Franny’s Feet (T-Th, beg. 6/5) Quilting Arts; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9); 10:30 WordWorld Quilt in a Day (beg. 6/16)
Sid the Science Kid
Sesame Street
Nature (R); June Specials (6/3 & 6/10)
11am Sewing with Nancy; June Specials Green & Health Programming; (6/2 & 6/9); It’s Sew Easy (beg. 6/16) June Specials (6/3 & 6/10)
Barney & Friends; Thomas & Friends (F) (R)
11:30
Victory Garden; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9)
Growing Bolder; June Specials (6/3 & 6/10)
Curious George (R) Bob the Builder (F) (R)
12pm
Woodsmith Shop; American Woodshop (beg. 6/2)
McLaughlin Group
Super WHY! (R)
12:30
This Old House
WSIU InFocus (R)
Clifford
1pm
Ask This Old House
Cyberchase
1:30 Hometime; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9)
Varies – See Listings; June Specials (6/3 & 6/10)
Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman; Biz Kid$ (F) (in June)
2pm
Garden Home; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9)
Martha Speaks (R)
2:30
Color World with Gary Spetz; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9)
Arthur
3pm
Painting and Travel; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9)
WordGirl (R); Signing Time (F)
3:30
Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9)
Wild Kratts
4pm
Kimchi Chronicles; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9)
The Electric Company
4:30
Sara’s Weeknight Meals; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9)
BBC World News America; WSIU InFocus (F) (R)
5pm
Taste This! ; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9)
Nightly Business Report
5:30
America’s Test Kitchen; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9)
Scholastic Hi-Q; June Specials (6/3 & 6/10); Heartland Highways (beg. 6/17)
6pm
MotorWeek; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9)
America’s Heartland; June Specials (6/3 & 6/10)
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Getting Away Together; June Specials (6/2 & 6/9) Open Road (beg. 6/23)
Expressions; Memorial Day special (5/27); June Specials (6/3 & 6/10); Best of Expeditions (beg. 6/17)
PBS NewsHour
Health Programming (varies) June Specials (6/3 & 6/10) Religion & Ethics Newsweekly; June Specials (6/3 & 6/10) Lawrence Welk (R); June Specials (6/3 & 6/10)
6pm 7pm 8pm
Bolinao 52 (5/1); Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long and Winding Road (5/8); Made in India (5/15); Necessary Journey (5/22); The Doha Debates (5/29) Rosenblatt: The Final Inning (5/1); Paving the Way: The National Park-to-Park Highway (5/8); POV (5/15, 5/29); Dabbawallas (5/22) Golden Game: Minor Leagues (5/1); Golden Fame: Baseball in Sacramento (5/1- beg. 7:30); Paving the Way: The National Park-to-Park Highway (5/8); Purdy (5/15); Global Voices (5/22); POV (5/29 - beg. 7:30pm) Bolinao 52 (5/1); Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long and Winding Road (5/8); Made in India (5/15); Necessary Journey (5/22); POV (5/29 - continues from 7:30pm)
5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm
American Masters (5/2); Frontline (5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/30) Independent Lens (5/2, 5/16 & 5/30 - beg. 6:30 pm); Circus Dreams (5/9); After The Harvest: Fighting Hunger in The Coffeelands (5/16); The Doha Debates (5/23); Lest We Forget - A Survivor’s Story (5/30) Frontline (5/2); Independent Lens (5/9, 5/16 & 5/30 - beg. 6:30pm, 5/23) Frontline (5/2 - continues from 7pm, 5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/30)
5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm
Pioneers in Aviation: The Race to the Moon (5/3, 5/10); Secrets of the Dead (5/17, 5/24, 5/31) NOVA (5/3, 5/10, 5/17,5/24, 5/31) America Revealed (5/3); NOVA (5/10, 5/24); Bones of Turkana (5/17); Inside Natures Giants (5/31) Pioneers in Aviation: The Race to the Moon (5/3, 5/10); Secrets of the Dead (5/17, 5/24, 5/31)
5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm
Jim Thorpe: World’s Greatest Athlete (5/4); Every Day is a Holiday (5/11); Pidgin: The Voice of Hawaii (5/18); Intelligence Squared U.S. (5/25) After the Harvest: Fighting Hunger in the Coffeelands (5/4); Basic Black (5/4 - beg. 6:30pm); President’s Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office (5/11); Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (5/18); Civilization: The West and the Rest with Niall Ferguson (5/25) Jesse Owens: American Experience (5/4); Clinton: American Experience (5/11, 5/18); Civilization: The West and the Rest with Niall Ferguson (5/25 - continues from 6pm) Jim Thorpe: World’s Greatest Athlete (5/4); Clinton: American Experience (5/11, 5/18 - continues from 7pm); PBS NewsHour (5/18); Intelligence Squared U.S. (5/25)
4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm
WSIU InFocus (5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26); Scholastic Hi-Q (5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26) Expressions (5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26); Illinois Lawmakers (5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26 & 6/2 - beg. 5:30pm) Moyers & Company (5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26) Washington Week (5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26); McLaughlin Group (5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26 - beg. 7:30pm) Need To Know (5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26); Inside Washington (5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26 - beg. 8:30pm) Broadside (Part 1) (5/5); American Masters (5/12); Johnny Carson: American Masters (5/19); Last Ridge (5/26) Broadside (Part 2) (5/5); American Masters (5/12 - continues from 9pm); Little Manila: Filipinos in California (5/12 - beg. 10:30pm); Johnny Carson: American Masters (5/19- continues from 9pm); Marching Once More: 60 Years After the Battle of the Bulge (5/26)
4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm
Jim Thorpe: World’s Greatest Athlete (5/6); Paving the Way: The National Park- to-Park Highway (5/13); Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (5/20); The Doha Debates (5/27) Jesse Owens: American Experience (5/6); Paving the Way: The National Park-to- Park Highway (5/13); Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (5/20); Intelligence Squared U.S. (5/27) Hockey: More Than A Game (5/6); Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long and Winding Road (5/13); POV (5/20); Necessary Journey (5/27) The Apple Pushers (5/6); Critical Condition: California’s Emergency Rooms (5/13); Crisis in Caring: California’s Schools (5/13-beg. 7:30pm); Parents’ Survival Guide: Childhood Obesity (5/20); Walking into the Unknown (5/27) The Apple Pushers (5/6 - continues from 7pm); Illinois Lawmakers (5/6 - beg. 8:30pm, 5/13, 5/20 & 5/27); Expressions (5/13, 5/20 & 5/27 - beg. 8:30pm) WSIU InFocus (5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27); Scholastic Hi-Q (5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27) POV (5/6); Global Voices (5/13, 5/27); The Tragedy of Bataan (5/20); After the Harvest: Fighting Hunger in the Coffeelands (5/20 - beg. 10:30pm)
4pm Newsline/Journal (beg. 4:30) 5-9pm Varies 9pm PBS NewsHour
10pm Nightly Business Report 10:30 RREE; Journal 11pm Varies
Monday Tuesday
HD
5pm
WednesdaY
WSIU
Nature (5/7, 5/14, 5/21, 5/28) Finding Your Roots (5/7, 5/14, 5/21, 5/28) Every Day is a Holiday (5/7); One Voice (5/14); Independent Lens (5/21); My Vietnam Your Iraq (5/28) WSIU InFocus (5/7, 5/14, 5/21, 5/28); Scholastic Hi-Q (5/7, 5/14, 5/21, 5/28)
thursday
WSIU 8.3 WSIU CREATE “How-To” Channel - build, bake, sew, grow, and explore!
5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm
Friday
WSIU 8.2 WSIU World - the best in news, public affairs, and documentary programs
8.2/16.2
Saturday
WSIU 8.1 WSIU Main PBS Channel - primary channel (HD)
Sunday
WSIU
WSIU TV Digital Lineup
Weekday News
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WSIU
CREATE 8.3/16.3
NOTE: Noon-6pm, 6pm-12am & 12-6am schedules are repeats of these listings
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
6am
Cook’s Country
Simply Ming
Essential Pépin
Cook’s Country
Essential Pépin
Simply Ming
6:30
Lidia’s Italy
Lidia’s Italy
Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth
Lidia’s Italy
Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth
Lidia’s Italy
7am
Tommy Tang’s Easy Thai Cooking
Ciao Italia
Caprial and John’s Kitchen
Tommy Tang’s Easy Thai Cooking
Caprial and John’s Kitchen
Ciao Italia
7:30
Sara’s Weeknight Meals
Secrets of a Chef
Christina Cooks
Sara’s Weeknight Meals
Christina Cooks
Secrets of a Chef
8am
Rick Steves
Rick Steves
Burt Wolfe: Travels & Traditions
Rick Steves
Burt Wolfe: Travels & Traditions
Rick Steves
8:30
Equitrekking
Travel With Kids
Openroad
Equitrekking
Openroad
Travel With Kids
9am
Garden Home
Garden Smart
Victory Garden
Garden Smart
Victory Garden
Garden Home
9:30
Ask This Old House
This Old House
Woodright’s Shop
Ask This Old House
Woodright’s Shop
This Old House
10am
For Your Home
AmericanWoodshop
Woodsmith Shop
For Your Home
Woodsmith Shop
AmericanWoodshop
10:30
Katie Brown Workshop
Around the House with Matt & Shari
Growing Boulder
Katie Brown Workshop
Growing Boulder
Around the House with Matt & Shari
11am
Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
Sewing with Nancy
Scheewe Art Workshop
Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
Scheewe Art Workshop
Sewing with Nancy
11:30
Donna Dewberry
Best of Simply Painting
Best of the Joy of Painting
Donna Dewberry
Best of the Joy of Painting
Best of Simply Painting
Saturday “How-To” Marathons
May 5: Pizza Party may 12: Fresh Air Fun May 19: Spring Garden May 26: Red, White, and Barbecue NOTE: The June CREATE schedule was unavailable at press time due to scheduling changes in process at the national level.
WSIU DIGITAL SCHEDULES ONLINE
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Memorial Day Programming
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12am America Revealed.CC Electric Nation. Part 3/4. (R) 1am Antiques Roadshow.CC Atlanta, GA. Part 3/3. (R) 2am Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.CC Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice, and Ruth Simmons. Part 7/10. (R) 3am Masterpiece Classic.CC Birdsong. Part 2/2. (R) 4:30 Fort Niagara: The Struggle for a Continent.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Jesse Owens: American Experience. CC American Experience tells the story of Jesse Owens’ remarkable victories in the face of Nazi racism during the 1936 Olympics. 8pm Frontline.CC Money, Power, and Wall Street. The conclusion of this fourhour special examines how two U.S. administrations have confronted the nation’s economic crisis. Parts 3-4/4. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm Art in the Twenty-First Century.CC Change. Artists Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui, and Catherine Opie engage their communities through art. Part 1/4.
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12am Frontline.CC Money, Power and Wall Street. (R) 2am Jesse Owens: American Experience. CC (R) 3am America Revealed.CC Electric Nation. Part 3/4. (R) 4am Antiques Roadshow.CC Atlanta, GA. Part 3/3. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Nature.CC Born Wild: The First Days of Life. Follow the birth and first day of life of several species, from marmoset to moose to elephant and gorilla. 8pm NOVA.CC Smartest Machine on Earth. Investigate the world of artificial intelligence and see a profile of IBM’s supercomputer, which is widely touted as the “smartest machine on Earth.” 9pm America Revealed.CC Made in the U.S.A. Host Yul Kwon introduces viewers to traditional and not-sotraditional types of manufacturing in the U.S. Part 4/4. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm American Road to Victory.CC The Americans on D-Day. Historian Ellwood von Seibold leads a tour of American D-Day landings, including Saint Mere Eglise, La Pointe du Hoc, and Omaha Beach. Part 1/3.
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12am Nature.CC Born Wild: The First Days of Life. (R) 1am NOVA.CC Smartest Machine on Earth. (R) 2am America Revealed.CC Made in the U.S.A. Part 4/4. (R) 3am Jesse Owens: American Experience. CC (R) 4am America in Primetime.CC Independent Woman. Part 1/4. 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 5/16; Insulating a Wall; Repointing a Fieldstone Foundation. 8pm Live From the Artists Den.CC Iron and Wine. The band reconnects with their southern roots in a 24-song concert in Atlanta. (ENDS) 9pm Expressions. Anthony Spinazola; Chris Scamehorn. Guests include nationally-recognized motorcycle artist, Anthony Spinazola of Cobden, Ill., and innovative ceramicist, Chris Scamehorn of Makanda, Ill. 9:30 Jammin at Hippie Jack’s.CC Town Mountain (Jamgrass/Bluegrass). Town Mountain blends traditional bluegrass with country, jazz, punk, and Americana music. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm History Detectives.CC Stalag 17 Portrait; Seadrome; Black Tom Shell.
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12am This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 5/16; Insulating a Wall; Repointing a Fieldstone Foundation. (R) 1am Independent Lens.CC Circo. 2am Nature.CC Born Wild: The First Days of Life. (R) 3am NOVA.CC Smartest Machine on Earth. (R) 4am America Revealed.CC Made in the U.S.A. Part 4/4. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Washington Week.CC 7:30 WSIU InFocus. 8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Atlanta, GA. Part 3/3. (R) 9pm Illinois Lawmakers. Spring Session 3. 9:30 Moyers & Company.CC 10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 Newsline.CC
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12am Washington Week.CC (R) 12:30 Need to Know.CC 1am Art in the Twenty-First Century.CC Balance. Part 4/4. 2am Wallace Stegner.CC 3am Antiques Roadshow.CC Atlanta, GA. Part 3/3. (R)
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This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 5/16; Insulating a Wall; Repointing a Fieldstone Foundation. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Lawrence Welk Show.CC Great Entertainers. 8pm Globe Trekker.CC Caribbean Islands: St. Lucia, Martinique & Montserrat. Surrounded by stunning rainforests, mountains, and volcanoes, with a hybrid of English, African, and French heritage, it’s easy to see why these islands are considered some of the top vacation spots in the world. 9pm Masterpiece Mystery!CC Foyle’s War V: Broken Souls. When the colleague of an exiled war refugee is found murdered, Foyle is called upon to investigate. He quickly discovers the victim was not a well-liked man. 10:30 Austin City Limits.CC Miranda Lambert; Jeff Bridges. 11:30 Official Best of Fest.CC Perspective. Jillian’s Vantage tells the story of a man set up on a blind date with a blind woman.
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12am NOVA.CC Smartest Machine on Earth. (R) 1am Frontline.CC Money, Power, and Wall Street. (R) 3am Independent Lens.CC Circo. (R) 4am Washington Week.CC (R) 4:30 Need to Know.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 1pm Street Vets.CC Over 100,000 U.S. veterans are homeless every year. This film provides a remarkably candid view of the long-term scars of war and personal tragedy that can sometimes lead to life on the streets. 2pm On the Edge: Family Homelessness in America.CC This documentary chronicles the struggles of seven women trying to escape homelessness in small towns and resort communities across America. 3pm See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.CC Sanjay Gupta, Margaret Cho, and Martha Stewart. See article on page five. Part 8/10. 8pm Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II: A Scandal in Belgravia. See article on page five. Part 1/3. 9:30 America in Primetime.CC Man of the House. This episode showcases the evolution of the man of the house, from the king of his castle in classic sitcoms like the The Andy Griffith Show to a more conflicted figure in modern programs like Breaking Bad. Part 2/4.
May / June 2012
May
10:30 alt.news 26:46. Kid Tiger; My Dad Lives in a Trunk. 11pm Searching for Roots in Canton.CC A Chinese-American and ChineseAfrican-American travel to Canton, China to search for their ancestral homes, cultural heritage, and new interpretations of racial identity.
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12:30 Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II: A Scandal in Belgravia. Part 1/3. (R) 2am Art in the Twenty-First Century.CC Balance. Part 4/4. (R) 3am America in Primetime.CC Man of the House. Part 2/4. (R) 4am Jesse Owens: American Experience. CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 1/3. 8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Fame and Fortune. This Roadshow special edition spotlights celebrities, bigshots, and headliners through objects connected to their lives. Highlights include Marilyn Monroe photos. 9pm Long Road Home.CC Long Road Home offers compelling stories from Pittsburgh-area military veterans of Vietnam, Korea, and World War II who are still coming to terms with the emotional wounds of war. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm NOVA.CC Smartest Machine On Earth. (R) See 5/2 at 8pm.
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12am America Revealed.CC Made in the U.S.A. Part 4/4. (R) 1am Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 1/3. (R) 2am Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.CC Sanjay Gupta, Margaret Cho, and Martha Stewart. Part 8/10. (R) 3am Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II: A Scandal in Belgravia. Part 1/3. (R) 4:30 Ribbon of Sand.CC 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Clinton: American Experience. CC American Experience follows President William Jefferson Clinton across his two terms as he confronted key forces that would shape the future, including partisan political warfare and terrorism. Part 1/2. 9pm Frontline.CC Episode details unavailable at press time. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm Art in the Twenty-First Century.CC Boundaries. Artists David Altmejd and Tabaimo, and Lynda Benglis use their art to synthesize aesthetic traditions and present taboo subjects. Part 2/4.
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12am Frontline.CC (R) 1am Clinton: American Experience.CC Part 1/2. (R) 3am America in Primetime.CC Man of the House. Part 2/4. (R) 4am Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 1/3. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Nature.CC The White Lions. Filmed at South Africa’s Kruger Park, this program follows two rare white lion cubs – both female – on their precarious journey to adulthood on the South African savanna. 8pm NOVA.CC Deadliest Tornadoes. In the wake of April 2011’s tornado outbreak, NOVA explores how we can protect ourselves from weatherrelated disasters. 9pm NOVA.CC Hunt for the Supertwister. A NOVA camera team captures hairraising footage of highly destructive tornadoes in action and talks with two University of Oklahoma scientists about their radically different approaches to forecasting twisters. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm American Road to Victory.CC The Americans on Hell’s Highway. Through real soldiers’ stories and dramatic reenactments, this program depicts the most massive daytime drop of airborne troops in military history and recounts the actions of the 82nd and 101st Airborne as they crossed the Rhine into Germany. Part 2/3.
9:30 Jammin at Hippie Jack’s.CC Shaun Murphy (Blues). Blues vocalist Shaun Murphy can “tear it up” on a hard-edged number or apply a subtle softness when needed. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm History Detectives.CC Civil War Bridge; Scottsboro Boys Stamp; Duke Ellington Plates.
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12am This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 6/16; Removing Overgrown Shrubs; Quieting a Noisy Baseboard Heater. (R) 1am Independent Lens.CC Summer Pasture. 2:30 Ribbon of Sand.CC (R) 3am Nature.CC The White Lions. (R) 4am NOVA.CC Deadliest Tornadoes. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Washington Week.CC 7:30 WSIU InFocus. 8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 1/3. (R) 9pm Illinois Lawmakers. Spring Session 4. 9:30 Moyers & Company.CC 10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 Newsline.CC
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12am 1am 2am 3am
Nature.CC The White Lions. (R) NOVA.CC Deadliest Tornadoes. (R) NOVA.CC Hunt for the Supertwister. (R) Clinton: American Experience.CC Part 1/2. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 6/16; Removing Overgrown Shrubs; Quieting a Noisy Baseboard Heater. 8pm Front Row Center.CC T-Bone Burnett Presents: The Secret Sisters with Elvis Costello and Jakob Dylan. The Secret Sisters showcase their beautiful harmonies and classic country/folk sound. T. Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, and Jakob Dylan join the sisters on stage. (NEW) 9pm Expressions. John Medwedeff; Fran Jaffe. Host Najjar Abdul-Musawwir talks with nationally-acclaimed sculptor and metalsmith John Medwedeff of Murphysboro, Ill. and acclaimed natural canvas painter Fran Jaffe of Anna, Ill.
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9pm 10:30 11:30
Washington Week.CC (R) Need to Know.CC Craft in America.CC Threads. One Voice.CC NOVA.CC Hunt for the Supertwister. (R) This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 6/16; Removing Overgrown Shrubs; Quieting a Noisy Baseboard Heater. (R) See Daytime Schedule. Angelina Ballerina: The Shining Star Trophy.CC See article on page 22. See Daytime Schedule. Lawrence Welk Show.CC Mother’s Day Show. Globe Trekker.CC Food Hour: Israel & The Palestinian Territories. Angela May and Bobby Chin discover and sample the diverse food traditions of Jaffa, Jerusalem, Acca, Jericho, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and the hills of Judea. Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II: A Scandal in Belgravia. Part 1/3. (R) See article on page five. Austin City Limits.CC The Decemberists; Gillian Welch. Official Best of Fest.CC Cheating. Viewers get a lesson in cheating from the Irish point-of-view in Rear View and the American perspective in Fool Me Once. (NEW SEASON)
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12am NOVA.CC Deadliest Tornadoes. (R) 1am Frontline.CC (R) 2am Independent Lens.CC Summer Pasture. (R) 3:30 Fort Niagara: The Struggle for a Continent.CC (R) 4am Washington Week.CC (R) 4:30 Need to Know.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 8am Angelina Ballerina: The Shining Star Trophy.CC (R) See article on page 22. 9am See Daytime Schedule. 1pm Great Performances at the Met.CC Faust. Jonas Kaufmann is Faust, René Pape is the devil, and Marina Poplavskaya is Marguerite in this new production of Gounod’s opera. 4:30 See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.CC John Legend, Wanda Sykes, and Margarett Cooper. See article on page five. Part 9/10. 8pm Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II: The Hounds of Baskerville. See article on page five. Part 2/3. 9:30 America in Primetime.CC The Misfit. Celebrate the unique characters who defied comic stereotypes and societal expectations to reflect America’s diversity. Alec Baldwin, Rainn Wilson, and Larry David are among the actors interviewed. Part 3/4. 10:30 Studio A Presents. Episode details unavailable at press time. 11pm Sherlock Holmes & The Hound of the Baskervilles: Theater of the Mind.CC Meet the actors, musicians, and crew of sound effects technicians who helped to create Philip Grecian’s radio adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles.
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12:30 Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II: The Hounds of Baskerville. Part 2/3. (R) 2am America in Primetime.CC The Misfit. Part 3/4. (R) 3am Clinton: American Experience.CC Part 1/2. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 8am Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs from A to Z. See article on page 22. 9am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 2/3. 8pm Johnny Carson: King of Late Night: American Masters.CC See photo spotlight on this page. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm NOVA.CC Deadliest Tornadoes. (R) See 5/9 at 8pm.
May
JOHNNY C ARSON: KING OF L ATE NIGHT: AMERIC AN MASTERS 5/14, 8pm • Photo: The Carson Enter tainment Group
American Masters explores the career, complexities, and contradictions of the biggest star television has ever produced. Clues about Carson’s life, stories about his childhood, and early days in the business are enhanced by interviews with friends, family, colleagues, and performers who appeared on The Tonight Show.
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12am Johnny Carson: American Masters. CC (R) 2am Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 2/3. (R) 3am Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II: The Hounds of Baskerville. (R) 4:30 Fort Niagara: The Struggle for a Continent.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Clinton: American Experience.CC Part 2/2. See 5/8 at 7pm. 9pm Frontline.CC Episode details unavailable at press time. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm Art in the Twenty-First Century. CC History. Conceptual artist Glenn Ligon and performance artists Mary Reid Kelley and Marina Abramovic play with historic events, explore and expose commonly held assumptions about historic “truth,” and create narratives based on personal experiences. Part 3/4.
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12am Frontline.CC (R) 1am Clinton: American Experience.CC Part 2/2. (R) 3am Johnny Carson: King of Late Night: American Masters.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule.
7pm Nature.CC Cracking the Koala Code. Follow individual koalas from a small social group on an Australian island to learn how they manage to survive and thrive on a diet poisonous to most herbivorous mammals. 8pm NOVA.CC The Great Inca Rebellion. Uncover the untold final chapter of the 16th-century Spanish conquest of the mighty Inca Empire. 9pm Bones of Turkana.CC Follow famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, his family, and colleagues as they work in the arid northern regions of Kenya’s Turkana Basin to unravel the mysteries of human evolution. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm American Road to Victory.CC The Americans in the Bulge. Ellwood Von Siebold takes us on a tour of the frozen Ardennes forests of the Battle of the Bulge. Part 3/3.
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The Tragedy of Bataan.CC NOVA.CC The Great Inca Rebellion. (R) Bones of Turkana.CC (R) Clinton: American Experience.CC Part 2/2. (R) See Daytime Schedule. This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 7/16; Repairing a Crack in an Asphalt Walkway; Getting Rid of Mold. Front Row Center.CC Colbie Caillat. With just her dusky vocals and acoustic guitar, Caillat performs some of her most memorable songs, including “Bubbly” and “Realize.” Expressions. Fern Logan; Mary Pachikara. Guests are internationallyacclaimed photographer Fern Logan of Carbondale, Ill. and watercolor artist Mary Pachikara, originally from Kerala, India and now of Murphysboro, Ill. (ENDS) Jammin at Hippie Jack’s.CC Bawn in the Mash (Contemporary Bluegrass). The Kentucky-based band Bawn in the Mash transforms American roots music into an exciting genre that is accessible to young people. (ENDS) Charlie Rose.CC History Detectives.CC Space Exploration.
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12am This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 7/16; Repairing a Crack in an Asphalt Walkway; Getting Rid of Mold. (R) 1am Independent Lens.CC Precious Knowledge. 2am Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 2/3. (R)
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3am Nature.CC Cracking the Koala Code. (R) 4am Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.CC John Legend, Wanda Sykes, and Margarett Cooper. Part 9/10. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 8am Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs A to Z.CC (R) See article on page 22. 9am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Washington Week.CC 7:30 WSIU InFocus. 8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 2/3. (R) 9pm Illinois Lawmakers. Spring Session 5. 9:30 Moyers & Company.CC 10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 Newsline.CC
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12am Washington Week.CC (R) 12:30 Need to Know.CC 1am Great Performances at the Met.CC The Enchanted Island. 4:30 Ribbon of Sand.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7am Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs A to Z.CC (R) See article on page 22. 8am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Lawrence Welk Show.CC Salute to Cole Porter. 8pm Globe Trekker.CC Bangladesh. Holly Morris travels to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and the seventh largest city in the world, and meets Bengal tigers at Sunderban National Park. 9pm Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II: The Hounds of Baskerville. Part 2/3. (R) See article on page fives. 10:30 Austin City Limits.CC Tom Waits. 11:30 Official Best of Fest.CC Grace. Goggles documents a six-year-old’s encounter with bullies. Displaced tells the story of an 11-year-old’s struggle with the foster care system.
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12am NOVA.CC The Great Inca Rebellion. (R) 1am Frontline.CC (R) 2am Independent Lens.CC Precious Knowledge. (R) 3am Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 2/3. (R) 4am Washington Week.CC (R) 4:30 Need to Know.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7am Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs A to Z.CC (R) See article on page 22. 8am See Daytime Schedule. 10am Nature.CC Cracking the Koala Code. (R) See 5/16 at 7pm. 11am See Daytime Schedule. 1pm Great Performances at the Met.CC The Enchanted Island. (R) See photo spotlight on this page. 4:30 See Daytime Schedule.
G reat P erformances at the M et: T he E nchanged I sland 5/20, 1pm• Photo: Nick Heavic an/ Metropolitan O pera
This extraordinary new work combines the world’s best singers, the glorious music of the Baroque masters, and a story drawn from Shakespeare. The program follows Shakespeare’s famous lovers from A Midsummer Night’s Dream who find themselves shipwrecked on the otherworldly island of The Tempest. 7pm Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.CC Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez. See article on page five. Part 10/10. (ENDS) 8pm Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II: The Reichenbach Fall. See article on page five. Part 3/3. 9:30 America in Primetime.CC The Crusader. Delve into the increasingly gray area between right and wrong as television heroes confront internal demons while seeking justice. Actors interviewed include Alan Alda and Gillian Anderson. Part 4/4. 10:30 Studio A Presents. Episode details unavailable at press time. (ENDS) 11pm POV.CC Where Soldiers Come From. From a snowy, small town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan, this film follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who join the National Guard after graduating from high school. The film offers an intimate look at the young Americans who fight our wars and the way one faraway conflict changes everything.
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12:30 Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II: The Reichenbach Fall. Part 3/3. (R) 2am America in Primetime.CC The Crusader. Part 4/4. (R)
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Johnny Carson: American Masters. CC (R) See Daytime Schedule. Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 3/3. Burt Bacharach & Hal David: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song In Performance at the White House.CC This special program taped at the White House features a star-studded tribute to the songwriting team who penned such classic tunes as “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head,” “What The World Needs Now is Love,” and “Walk on By.” Craft in America.CC Threads. Explore woven textiles and story quilts by artists Faith Ringgold of Harlem, Randall Darwall of Cape Cod, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood in California, and Terese Agnew in Wisconsin. (R) Charlie Rose.CC NOVA.CC The Great Inca Rebellion. (R)
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12am Burt Bacharach & Hal David: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song In Performance at the White House.CC (R) 1am Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 3/3. (R) 2am Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.CC Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier, and Linda Chavez. Part 10/10. (R) 3am Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II: The Reichenbach Fall. Part 3/3. (R) 4:30 Sky Island.CC 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Civilization: The West and the Rest With Niall Ferguson.CC See article on page five. Part 1/2. 9pm Frontline.CC Episode details unavailable at press time. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm Art in the Twenty-First Century. CC Balance. Artists Rackstraw Downes, Robert Mangold, and Sarah Sze create works that explore the gap between art and existence and challenge the distinction between seeing and knowing. Part 4/4.
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12am Frontline.CC (R) 1am Civilization: The West and the Rest With Niall Ferguson.CC Part 1/2. (R) 3am Burt Bacharach & Hal David: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song In Performance at the White House.CC (R) 4am Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 3/3. (R)
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5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Nature.CC Salmon: Running the Gauntlet. The annual runs of millions of salmon once defined the Pacific Northwest. Now, their alarming absence is shaping the region. Nature investigates the parallel stories of collapsing Pacific salmon populations and how biologists and engineers have become instruments in audacious experiments to replicate every stage of the fish’s life cycle. 8pm NOVA.CC Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor. Join an exclusive dive beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace new clues to the historic sinking of the USS Arizona. Over 1,000 crew members perished in the dramatic 1941 sinking of the storied battleship – the greatest loss of life in United States naval history. 9pm Shelter Me.CC Every year, more than four million dogs and cats are euthanized in America’s shelters. This film celebrates the humananimal bond with positive, uplifting stories about shelter pets and their new homes. The program shows how shelter pets are helping returning war veterans cope with debilitating injuries and teaching inmates new life lessons. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm Vietnam War Stories.CC Three million Americans served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Vietnam War Stories shares soldiers’ personal memories of service and sacrifice and provides insight into the experience of war.
9pm America’s Veterans: A Musical Tribute 2011.CC Recorded in May 2011 at the Music Center at Strathmore, in Bethesda, Md., America’s Veterans: A Musical Tribute 2011 salutes the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. Led by the United States Air Force Band, including The Singing Sergeants and a full orchestra, the lineup includes performances by country singer Jo Dee Messina, Irish tenor Ronan Tynan, jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, and So You Think You Can Dance winner Sabra Johnson. Gen. Cecil R. Richardson reads tributes to heroes from all five military branches. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm History Detectives.CC Iwo Jima Map; Copperhead Cane; Theremin.
12am Nature.CC Salmon: Running the Gauntlet. (R) 1am NOVA.CC Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor. (R) 2am NOVA.CC Missing in MiG Alley. 3am Civilization: The West and the Rest With Niall Ferguson.CC Part 1/2. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 8/16; Fixing a Kitchen Sink Drain; Quieting Squeaky Hardwood Floors. 8pm Front Row Center.CC Phil Collins: Going Back – Live at the Roseland Ballroom. This very personal concert sees Phil Collins take his superb 2010 release Going Back into the live arena for the first time, faithfully recreating the soul and Motown sounds that he loved as a teenager. Collins’ band includes members of The Funk Brothers and Genesis.
12am Washington Week.CC (R) 12:30 Need to Know.CC 1am Goat Rodeo Live: Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile.CC 2am PBS Arts from the Blue Ridge Mountains: Give Me the Banjo.CC 3:30 Fort Niagara: The Struggle for a Continent.CC (R) 4am This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 8/16; Fixing a Kitchen Sink Drain; Quieting Squeaky Hardwood Floors. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Lawrence Welk Show.CC Something About a Hometown Band. 8pm Globe Trekker.CC East Texas. Zay takes roping lessons in Forth Worth, visits oil fields in Kilgore, and tours the Johnson Space Center in Houston. 9pm Masterpiece Mystery!CC Sherlock II The Reichenbach Fall. Part 3/3. (R) See article on page five.
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12am This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 8/16; Fixing a Kitchen Sink Drain; Quieting Squeaky Hardwood Floors. (R) 1am Independent Lens.CC Left by the Ship. 2am Unforgettable: The Korean War.CC 3am NOVA.CC Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor. (R) 4am NOVA.CC Missing in MiG Alley. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Washington Week.CC 7:30 WSIU InFocus. 8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Minneapolis, MN. Part 3/3. (R) 9pm Illinois Lawmakers. Spring Session 6. 9:30 Moyers & Company.CC 10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 Newsline.CC
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10:30 Austin City Limits.CC Mumford and Sons; Flogging Molly. 11:30 Official Best of Fest.CC Fathers & Daughters. We go ‘down under’ to Australia for the film Getting Dad, in which a girl seeks to understand her strange father. Then it’s back up north for Reflection, a story from Canada about a father and his grief.
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12am NOVA.CC Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor. (R) 1am NOVA.CC Missing in MiG Alley. (R) 2am Frontline.CC (R) 3am Independent Lens.CC Left by the Ship. (R) 4am Washington Week.CC (R) 4:30 Need to Know.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 1pm Bataan: A 70th Anniversary Commemoration.CC On the 70th anniversary of the fall of Bataan and the subsequent death march, Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) and Congressman Martin Heinrich (DNM) proposed legislation to grant the Congressional Gold Medal to the troops who defended Bataan during World War II. This film from New Mexico PBS was inspired in part by the TV documentary The Tragedy of Bataan, produced by SIU Radio-TV associate professor Jan Thompson. 2pm The Tragedy of Bataan.CC Narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this moving documentary chronicles the fall of the Philippines and the Bataan Death March in the early months of World War II. It features first-person interviews with over twenty former survivors of the conflict, including the late Capt. Albert Brown of Pinckneyville, Ill., who passed away in August 2011 just shy of his 106th birthday. Written and produced by SIU Radio-TV associate professor Jan Thompson and distributed nationally by the National Educational Telecommunications Association. 2:30 Earth, Stone & Memories: Historic Cemeteries and What They Tell Us. Produced by Rich Kuenneke of Oakview Road Media in Carbondale, Ill., this program offers insight into the basic questions that surround historic cemeteries as explained through the works of historians, archaeologists, and genealogists. 3pm National Geographic Bee 2012.CC State Geographic Bee winners from across the country compete for the National Bee Title and a scholarship at the 24th annual National Geographic Bee in Washington, D.C.
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May 4pm See Daytime Schedule. 6pm Shelter Me.CC (R) See 5/23 at 9pm for description. 7pm National Memorial Day Concert 2012.CC Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna co-host this tribute to U.S. men and women in uniform. Now in its 23rd year, the National Memorial Day Concert features an all-star lineup of dignitaries, actors, and musical artists in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra. 8:30 National Memorial Day Concert 2012.CC (R) See tonight at 7pm. 10pm War Bonds: The Songs and Letters of World War II.CC Taped in front of a live audience at Holly Springs Cultural Center in North Carolina, this multimedia, living-history cabaret takes a sentimental journey through the days of blackouts, rationing, and Rosie the Riveter. The program weaves together the popular songs of the World War II era with humorous, poignant, and often poetic letters from the frontlines and the homefront, including letters from a housewife discovering freedom for the first time upon entering the workforce. 11pm Long Road Home.CC (R) See 5/7 at 9pm.
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12am WSIU InFocus. Quiet Acres: Mound City National Cemetery. 12:30 National Memorial Day Concert 2012.CC (R) 2am PBS Arts from the Blue Ridge Mountains: Give Me the Banjo.CC (R) 3:30 National Memorial Day Concert 2012.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 5:30pm WSIU InFocus. Quiet Acres: Mound City National Cemetery. This special episode of WSIU InFocus recounts the Civil War heritage of Southern Illinois and how this tranquil and well-manicured burial site offers a visual testament of that history. The program features interviews with historians John Y. Simon, P. Michael Jones of the General John A. Logan Museum, and author Terri Kionka whose writings offer a new perspective on the Civil War in Cairo. Produced by Rich Kuenneke. 6pm See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Jackpot! It’s every collector’s dream: turning a modest outlay into a secret fortune. Jackpot rolls the dice to reveal amazing windfalls, such as a $10,000 painting acquired for $1.50 and a $5 art pottery vase worth $17,000.
8pm Black Jack Logan. Produced by Chris Yoars, a native of Carol Stream, Ill. and an SIU alumnus in Professional Media Practice in SIU’s College of Mass Communication & Media Arts, this documentary explores the life and times of the Civil War general John A. Logan. 9pm Independent Lens.CC Hell and Back Again. Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris, 25, leads his unit to fight a ghostlike enemy in Afghanistan. Wounded in battle, Harris returns to North Carolina and his young wife to fight pain, addiction, and the terrifying normalcy of life at home. 10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 WSIU InFocus. Quiet Acres: Mound City National Cemetery. (R) See today at 5:30pm.
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12am Independent Lens.CC Hell and Back Again. (R) 1:30 Antiques Roadshow.CC Jackpot! (R) 2:30 National Memorial Day Concert 2012.CC (R) 4am Goat Rodeo Live: Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile. CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Civilization: The West and the Rest With Niall Ferguson.CC See article on page five. Part 2/2. 9pm Frontline.CC Episode details unavailable at press time. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm NOVA.CC Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor. (R) See 5/23 at 8pm.
10pm Secrets of Longevity with Dr. Joseph Maroon.CC In his first public TV special, neurosurgeon and author Dr. Joseph Maroon explains how to unlock the power of our genes to enable a long and healthy life. Secrets of Longevity shows how the new science of epigenetics applies to each of us and explores in detail the four pillars that determine our longevity: nutrition and supplements, exercise, avoiding environmental toxins, and managing stress. 11:30 Celtic Thunder Heritage.CC The talented vocal group explore their Celtic and Irish roots in this concert special featuring solo numbers, enchanting duets, and powerful ensembles. Performances include “Whiskey in the Jar,” “Black is the Color,” “Skye Boat Song” and “Red, Red Rose,” as well as a few beautiful love songs, including “The Dutchman,” “Noreen,” and “Just a Song at Twilight.”
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12am Frontline.CC (R) 1am Civilization: The West and the Rest With Niall Ferguson.CC Part 2/2. (R) 3am Antiques Roadshow.CC Jackpot! (R) 4am Antiques Roadshow.CC Raleigh, NC. Part 1/3. 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Oscar Hammerstein II – Out of My Dreams.CC Hosted by Matthew Morrison of the television series Glee, this program celebrates the most acclaimed lyricist and librettist of the 20th century: Oscar Hammerstein. His legendary works include Show Boat, Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. 8:30 Journey of the Universe.CC Hosted by evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas and filmed on the Greek island of Samos, the birthplace of Pythagorus, this dramatic and expansive film reframes the human connection to the cosmos.
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Brenda Watson: Road to Perfect Health.CC Civilization: The West and the Rest With Niall Ferguson.CC Part 2/2. (R) See Daytime Schedule. Easy Yoga for Easing Pain.CC Taped at yoga instructor Peggy Cappy’s home in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Easy Yoga for Easing Pain features Peggy both explaining and demonstrating why yoga can effectively reduce joint and muscular aches and pains, and even combat fatigue in people of all ages, from teens to octogenarians. Celtic Thunder Heritage.CC (R) See 5/30 at 11:30pm. Brenda Watson: Road to Perfect Health.CC Natural health and nutrition expert Brenda Watson explores the link between poor digestion and an unhealthy body. With over 20 years of experience in the health industry, Watson has helped people overcome health challenges, whether they suffer from typical digestive problems or chronic fatigue, by balancing the good and bad bacteria in their gut. (R) Ed Slott’s Retirement Rescue!CC The latest PBS special from financial guru Ed Slott, Retirement Rescue! is a powerful call-to-action for American consumers concerned about their retirement. Slott defines the serious fiscal problems facing Americans and provides a step-by-step solution to creating a plan of action.
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1:30 Tackling Diabetes with Dr. Neal Barnard.CC 3am NOVA.CC Venom: Nature’s Killer. 4am Nature.CC Black Mamba. 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Washington Week.CC 7:30 WSIU InFocus.CC 8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Jackpot! (R) 9pm Illinois Lawmakers. Spring Session 7. (ENDS) 9:30 Moyers & Company.CC 10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 Newsline.CC
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12am Washington Week.CC (R) 12:30 Need to Know.CC 1am Great Performances.CC Tony Bennett: Duets II. 2:30 Independent Lens.CC Hell and Back Again. (R) 4am This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 9/16; Building a Porch Railing; Selecting Stone for Building Walls. 5am See Daytime Schedule. 10:30 Kathy Smith’s Ageless Energy. CC Smith presents ways to increase energy and redefines the concept of fitness for people over 50. 12pm See Daytime Schedule. 1:30 Secrets of Longevity with Dr. Joseph Maroon.CC (R) See 5/30 at 10pm. 3pm Il Volo Takes Flight.CC In May 2009, three fresh-faced teenagers, Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto, and Ginaluca Ginoble appeared on Italian television and dazzled television viewers with their flawless rendition of the Neapolitan standard “O Sole Mio.” This program showcases the group’s vocal talent and interpretive gift for music while performing operatic, pop, and Italian classics. 4:30 Use Your Brain to Change Your Age with Dr. Daniel Amen.CC Dr. Amen shares simple steps to boost your brain to help you live longer, look younger, and dramatically decrease your risk for Alzheimer’s disease. 6:30 He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley.CC The intensity of Elvis Presley’s love for gospel music is revealed through vintage photos, interviews, and video footage of his seldom-seen gospel performances. 8pm The British Beat (My Music).CC This music special brings together British Invasion legends of the 1960s, such as The Mindbenders, Freddie and The Dreamers, and The Four Pennies.
June 10pm Blood Sugar Solution with Dr. Mark Hyman.CC Dr. Hyman discusses the link between diabetes and obesity and provides a personalized, four-step action plan to help people overcome both conditions. 11:30 British Beat (My Music).CC (R)
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Kathy Smith’s Ageless Energy.CC (R) NOVA.CC Venom: Nature’s Killer. (R) Washington Week.CC (R) Need to Know.CC (R) See Daytime Schedule. Use Your Brain to Change Your Age with Dr. Daniel Amen.CC (R) See Daytime Schedule. The Gospel Music of the Statler Brothers.CC Bill Gaither hosts this special celebrating the 40-year career of one of the few groups inducted into both the Country Music and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. Easy Yoga for Easing Pain.CC (R) See 5/31 at 7pm. Rick Steves’ Europe with Abandon!CC Rick Steves highlights the quintessential experiences of European travel while visiting Scandinavia, Spain, and Bosnia. (R) Healthy Hormones: Brain-Body Fitness.CC Health experts offer natural ways to balance hormones, lose weight, and reduce inflammation. John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music).CC This music special features footage of 1950s-‘60s folk era artists, including Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, and Bobby Darin. Pa’s Fiddle.CC Randy Travis, Rodney Atkins, Natalie Grant, and Randy Scruggs perform in this salute to the musical legacy of the Little House on the Prairie books. The British Beat (My Music).CC (R) See 6/2 at 8pm. Oscar Hammerstein II – Out of My Dreams.CC (R) See 5/30 at 7pm.
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12:30 Tackling Diabetes with Dr. Neal Barnard.CC (R) 2am Easy Yoga for Easing Pain.CC (R) 3am Civilization: The West and the Rest with Niall Ferguson.CC Part 2/2. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music).CC (R) See 6/3 at 5:30pm. 9pm Tackling Diabetes with Dr. Neal Barnard.CC Dr. Neal Barnard’s lowfat vegan diet can help diabetics and non-diabetics alike experience weight loss, blood glucose control, and reduced heart disease risk. (R)
10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 Under the Streetlamp.CC This electrifying music special features the cast of the Tony-Award winning musical, Jersey Boys, and features Doo-Wop, Motown, old time rock ‘n’ roll, and other songs from the American radio songbook.
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Ed Slott’s Retirement Rescue!CC (R) Great Performances.CC Tony Bennett: Duets II. (R) Loopdiver: The Journey of a Dance. CC (R) See Daytime Schedule. Il Volo Takes Flight.CC (R) Oscar Hammerstein II – Out of My Dreams.CC (R) See 5/30 at 7pm. Dr. Wayne Dyer – Wishes Fulfilled. CC Best-selling author Dr. Wayne Dyer shows viewers how to create new thought patterns while defeating unproductive and recurring habits.
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Use Your Brain to Change Your Age with Dr. Daniel Amen.CC (R) 3am Great Old Amusement Parks.CC 4am Antiques Roadshow.CC Philadelphia, PA. Part 1/3. 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Big Band Years.CC Hosted by Peter Marshall, this special includes video clips of some of the most popular bands of the swing era, including Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa, and Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. 9pm ADD and Loving It?!CC Actor Patrick McKenna talks with researchers, specialists, doctors, and patients about ADD and ADHD. The film combines candid discussions with humor and a positive outlook. 10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 Eat & Cook Healthy! with Dr. John LaPuma.CC Dr. John LaPuma shares recipes for a healthier lifestyle. LaPuma is the creator of “culinary medicine” – a way of cooking and eating that can prevent or control common health conditions without sacrificing restaurant-quality taste.
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Brenda Watson: Road to Perfect Health.CC (R) Time Team Special Edition.CC See Daytime Schedule. BBC World News America.CC Nightly Business Report.CC PBS NewsHour.CC The British Beat (My Music).CC (R) See 6/2 at 8pm.
June 9pm Aretha Franklin Presents: Soul Rewind (My Music).CC The Queen of Soul presents a collection of rare performances by legendary R&B performers of the classic 1960s-‘70s soul era. 11pm Healthy Hormones: Brain-Body Fitness.CC (R) See 6/3 at 4:30pm.
7pm Aretha Franklin Presents: Soul Rewind (My Music).CC (R) See 6/7 at 9pm. 9pm Pa’s Fiddle.CC (R) See 6/3 at 7:30pm. 10:30 John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music).CC (R) See 6/3 at 5:30pm.
12am Dr. Wayne Dyer – Wishes Fulfilled. CC (R) 3am NOVA.CC Doctors’ Diaries. Part 1/2. 4am NOVA.CC Doctors’ Diaries. Part 2/2. 5am See Daytime Schedule. 5pm WSIU InFocus.CC (R) 5:30 Nightly Business Report.CC 6pm PBS NewsHour.CC 7pm Washington Week.CC 7:30 WSIU InFocus.CC 8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Philadelphia, PA. Part 1/3. (R) 9pm Moyers & Company.CC 10pm Need to Know.CC 10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 Newsline.CC
12:30 Aretha Franklin Presents: Soul Rewind (My Music).CC (R) 2:30 Rick Steves’ Europe with Abandon!CC (R) 3am Antiques Roadshow.CC Philadelphia, PA. Part 1/3. (R) 4am Washington Week.CC (R) 4:30 Need to Know.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 9am Biz Kid$: Three Minutes to Change the World.CC See article on page 22. 10am Ed Slott’s Retirement Rescue!CC (R) See 5/31 at 11:30pm. 12pm McLaughlin Group.CC 12:30 WSIU InFocus.CC (R) 1pm Blood Sugar Solution with Dr. Mark Hyman.CC (R) See 6/2 at 10pm. 2:30 Use Your Brain to Change Your Age with Dr. Daniel Amen.CC (R) See 6/2 at 4:30pm. 4:30 Under the Streetlamp.CC (R) See 6/4 at 11:30pm. 6pm Big Band Years.CC (R) See 6/6 at 7pm. 8pm Dr. Wayne Dyer – Wishes Fulfilled. CC (R) See 6/5 at 10pm. 11pm Aretha Franklin Presents: Soul Rewind (My Music).CC (R) See 6/7 at 9pm.
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12am Washington Week.CC (R) 12:30 Need to Know.CC (R) 1am Paris the Luminous Years: Toward the Making of the Modern.CC 3am Great Old Amusement Parks.CC (R) 4am Hot Dog Program.CC 5am See Daytime Schedule. 10:30 Secrets of Longevity with Dr. Joseph Maroon.CC (R) See 5/30 at 10pm. 12pm See Daytime Schedule. 1:30 Healthy Hormones: Brain-Body Fitness.CC (R) See 6/7 at 11pm. 2:30 Stop Back Pain with Vijay Vad, MD.CC Dr. Vijay Vad, back pain specialist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, reviews the most common causes for chronic back pain – disc injuries and spinal stenosis – and outlines a course of pain self-management and recovery that includes an understanding of the mind/body relationship, exercise, diet and supplements 4pm Victor Borge: Comedy in Music!CC Newly re-discovered and rare archival footage of Borge’s performances on The Andy Williams Show and The Perry Como Show are combined with touching, heart-felt reminiscences by his five children about their favorite Borge routines. 5:30 Alfie Boe: Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London.CC Alfie’s magnificent stage presence is on display as he performs uniquely inspired renditions from some of the best-loved musicals of all time.
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Ed Slott’s Retirement Rescue!CC (R) Masterpiece Mystery!CC Zen: Vendetta. Part 1/3. Crown of the Continent – Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias.CC See Daytime Schedule. Antiques Roadshow.CC Philadelphia, PA. Part 2/3. Monarchy: Royal Family at Work. CC The State Visit. Find out what it takes to plan and execute an official visit from the queen. Charlie Rose.CC NOVA.CC Doctors’ Diaries. Since 1987, NOVA has documented the lives of seven students at Harvard Medical School. From divorces to death, and from dealing with patients to balancing work and home, NOVA’s camera captured every milestone. Now, NOVA returns one last time to get an update on the remaining six and see what kind of doctors – and people – they have become. Part 1/2.
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12am Monarchy: Royal Family at Work.CC The State Visit. Parts 1-2/6. (R) 2am Antiques Roadshow.CC Philadelphia, PA. Part 2/3. (R) 3am Masterpiece Mystery!CC Zen: Vendetta. Part 1/3. (R) 4:30 Crown of the Continent – Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm The War of 1812.CC For two and a half years, Americans fought against the British, Canadian colonists, and native nations. This film shows how the glories of war become enshrined in history, how failures are quickly forgotten, and how inconvenient truths are ignored forever. 9pm Frontline.CC Episode details unavailable at press time. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm NOVA.CC Doctors’ Diaries. Part 2/2. (R)
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12am The War of 1812.CC (R) 2am Frontline.CC (R) 3am Monarchy: Royal Family at Work.CC The State Visit. Parts 1-2/6. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Nature.CC Moment of Impact. Nature takes an innovative and revolutionary look at the “inside story” of animal bioengineering in the jungle. 8pm NOVA.CC Crash of Flight 447. On June 1, 2009, Flight AF447, an Air France Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. Find out how an airliner with elaborate safety and navigation features and a faultless safety record could simply vanish. 9pm Secrets of the Dead.CC Airmen and the Headhunters. Investigate the extraordinary survival story of a crew of airmen shot down over the jungles of Japanese-occupied Borneo during World War II. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm Pioneers in Aviation: The Race to the Moon.CC The Early Years. Episode one recounts the birth of American aviation – from the Wright Brothers’ earliest flights through the turbulent era of the 1920s. Part 1/3.
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12am Nature.CC Moment of Impact: Jungle. (R) 1am NOVA.CC Crash of Flight 447. (R) 2am Secrets of the Dead.CC Airmen and the Headhunters. (R) 3am The War of 1812.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule.
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7pm This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 11/16; Installing a Front Porch Light; Splitting Firewood. 8pm Front Row Center.CC Train. The Grammy Award-winning California rock band, Train, celebrates their fifth album, Save Me, San Francisco with performances that include “Hey, Soul Sister,” “If It’s Love,” “Marry Me,” and “Drops of Jupiter.” 9pm Mother Nature’s Child: Growing Outdoors in the Media Age.CC Has modern day media prevented children from experiencing nature? Mother Nature’s Child explores nature’s powerful role in children’s health and development through the experiences of children of all ages. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm History Detectives.CC Lauste Film Clip; Baker’s Gold; Transatlantic Cable.
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12am This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 11/16; Installing a Front Porch Light; Splitting Firewood. (R) 1am Independent Lens.CC We Were Here. 2:30 Nature.CC Moment of Impact: Jungle. (R) 3:30 NOVA.CC Crash of Flight 447. (R) 4:30 Sky Island.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 8am Super WHY! Around the World Adventure.CC See article on page 22. 9am See Daytime Schedule. 2pm Biz Kid$: Three Minutes to Change the World.CC (R) See article on page 22. 3pm See Daytime Schedule. 7:30 WSIU InFocus.CC 8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Philadelphia, PA. Part 2/3. (R) 9pm Moyers & Company.CC 10pm Need to Know.CC 10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 Newsline.CC
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12am Washington Week.CC (R) 12:30 Need to Know.CC (R) 1am Great Performances.CC Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway. 2:30 Crown of the Continent – Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias.CC (R) 3am Monarchy: Royal Family at Work.CC The State Visit. Parts 1-2/6. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7am Super WHY! Around the World Adventure.CC (R) See article on page 22. 8am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Lawrence Welk Show.CC My Blue Heaven.
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Marvel at the artistry of four string virtuosos: renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bluegrass fiddler Stuart Duncan, bassist Edgar Meyer, and mandolin wizard Chris Thile. While each artist is a prominent figure in his own musical sphere, all four have come together at Boston’s House of Blues for their first concert to create what critics are now hailing “a most remarkable and organic cross-genre project.”
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8pm Globe Trekker.CC Food Hour: Morocco. Ben O’Donoghue enjoys culinary adventures in Casablanca, lives with a nomadic family in the Western Sahara, and visits the markets of Marrakesh. 9pm Masterpiece Mystery!CC Zen: Vendetta. A killer is on a vendettafuelled rampage against those who wrongly imprisoned him, including policeman Aurelio Zen (Rufus Sewell) who had almost nothing to do with it. But Zen is too busy dealing with another crime – a politically-charged murder – to notice that he’s on the psychopath’s hit list. 10:30 Austin City Limits.CC The Steve Miller Band; Preservation Hall Jazz Band. 11:30 Official Best of Fest.CC Love III. Go south for love in Australia’s Turn, where two drivers find each other while trying to merge onto an impenetrable motorway. Then return north to the USA for Cold Tea, where a young man discovers the woman of his dreams.
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12am NOVA.CC Crash of Flight 447. (R) 1am Frontline.CC (R) 2am Independent Lens.CC We Were Here. (R)
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Sky Island.CC (R) Washington Week.CC (R) Need to Know.CC (R) See Daytime Schedule. Super WHY! Around the World Adventure.CC (R) See article on page 22. See Daytime Schedule. Every Day is a Holiday.CC ChineseAmerican filmmaker Theresa Loong creates an intimate portrait of her father and the bonds of the fatherdaughter relationship. Crimebuster: A Son’s Search for His Father.CC Photojournalist Lou Dematteis researches the story of his late father, the influential Italian American crime fighter and jurist Louis B. Dematteis. See Daytime Schedule. Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.CC Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada. What’s in a name? Well, a lot, at least when it comes to piecing together family history. For former slaves, choosing a last name was one of their first acts of freedom. For Jewish immigrants, it was a way to fit in with their new country. Part 3/10. Masterpiece Mystery!CC Zen: Cabal. A disgraced aristocrat jumps off a bridge. Or was he pushed? As usual, Zen (Rufus Sewell) gets mixed signals from his scheming bosses: the Ministry of Justice wants a ruling of suicide, while a powerful and beautiful prosecutor hints that Zen had better start looking for the murderer. Part 2/3. Goat Rodeo Live: Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer.CC See photo spotlight on this page. Independent Lens.CC We Were Here. When AIDS came to San Francisco in the early 1980s, the city became a war zone. Friends and family members were struck down in their prime by a mostly mysterious illness for which there was no cure. But the community came together when the nation’s leaders looked the other way and built an unprecedented system of love, care, and compassion. (R)
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12am Masterpiece Mystery!CC Zen: Cabal. Part 2/3. (R) 1:30 Mustang – Journey of Transformation.CC 2am Great Performances.CC Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway. (R) 3:30 Crown of the Continent – Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias.CC (R)
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June 4am Antiques Roadshow.CC Philadelphia, PA. Part 2/3. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Vintage Phoenix. Roadshow’s first visit to Phoenix was in 1997, when Arizona’s biggest story was a UFO sighting dubbed the “Phoenix Lights.” Flash forward 15 years for this believeit-or-not Roadshow moment: “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” the original 1897 letter to the New York Sun, was appraised at $20,000 to $30,000 and gets a nice current value of $30,000 to $50,000. 8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Atlantic City, NJ. Part 1/3. 9pm Monarchy: Royal Family at Work.CC Headquarters. Buckingham Palace’s 650 rooms form the nerve center of the British monarchy. It’s from here the queen directs the business of the royal family, entertains heads of state, and conducts her private life. Part 3/6. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm NOVA.CC Crash of Flight 447. (R) See 6/13 at 8pm.
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12am Monarchy: Royal Family at Work.CC Headquarters. Part 3/6. (R) 1am Antiques Roadshow.CC Vintage Phoenix. (R) 2am Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.CC Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada. Part 3/10. (R) 3am Masterpiece Mystery!CC Zen: Cabal. Part 2/3. (R) 4:30 Mustang – Journey of Transformation.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Queen Victoria’s Empire.CC Engines of Change; Passage to India. Parts 12/4. See photo spotlight on this page. 9pm Frontline.CC Episode details unavailable at press time. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long & Winding Road.CC This historical documentary explores the impact of human traffic along the route of the most visited segment of the National Park Service. The film also makes public – for the first time – details about a secret New Deal political tradeoff between FDR and a powerful congressman.
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12am Queen Victoria’s Empire.CC Engines of Change; Passage to India. Parts 1-2/4. (R) 2am Frontline.CC (R) 3am Monarchy: Royal Family at Work.CC Headquarters. Part 3/6. (R)
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10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm Pioneers in Aviation: The Race to the Moon.CC The War Years. The U.S. aviation industry unites behind President Roosevelt’s call to turn America into the “arsenal of democracy.” Factories operating around the clock produce some of the most legendary aircraft in history, giving the Allies the air supremacy they need to win World War II. Part 2/3.
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QUEEN VIC TORIA’S EMPIRE
6/19, 7pm • Photo: Parliament UK Beginning with the birth of Queen Victoria, episode one explores the changes brought to Britain by the industrial revolution. By the 1840s, urban migration has created overcrowding and extremes in pollution and poverty. Part two explores the clash of Victorian values and Indian culture, culminating in the Great Mutiny and Cawnpore reign. It also reveals the devastating effects of the Crimean War and the death of Prince Albert. 4am
Antiques Roadshow.CC Vintage Phoenix. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Nature.CC Superfish. Emmy awardwinning filmmaker and biologist Rick Rosenthal gets the full story on marlin, sailfish, spearfish, and swordfish – the most highly prized of all gamefish. Rosenthal films incredible color-changing behavior and embarks on a quest for an elusive thousand-pound “grander.” 8pm NOVA.CC Hunting the Edge of Space – The Mystery of the Milky Way. Three centuries of engineering have produced telescopes far beyond Galileo’s simple spyglass. Perched on mountaintops, orbiting the Earth, and even circling other planets, these telescopes are revealing the solar system in detail Galileo could only dream of. Part 1/2. 9pm Inside Nature’s Giants.CC Giant Squid. Scientists travel to New Zealand to examine one of the biggest yet most mysterious animals on Earth – the giant squid. Delving into its three hearts, razor sharp beak, tooth-covered tentacles, and bizarre reproductive system, the team explores the anatomy of a deepsea alien that’s never been observed in the wild.
12am Nature.CC Superfish. (R) 1am NOVA.CC Hunting the Edge of Space – The Mystery of the Milky Way. Part 1/2. (R) 2am Inside Nature’s Giants.CC Giant Squid. (R) 3am Queen Victoria’s Empire.CC Engines of Change; Passage to India. Parts 1-2/4. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm This Old House Hour.CC The Bedford Project, Part 12/16; Installing a Battery Back-up Sump Pump; Fixing a Rusty Metal Railing. 8pm Great Performances.CC Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway. After 20 years, threetime Grammy Award-winner Harry Connick Jr. returns to New York’s Neil Simon Theatre in a program of favorites, performed in his trademark New Orleans style. The evening features a 20-piece swing band and a 10-piece string section, with the star on both a Steinway grand and upright honky-tonk piano. (R) 9:30 After The Harvest: Fighting Hunger in the Coffeelands.CC In 2010, a crew from Optic Nerve Productions traveled from Mexico to Nicaragua with the help of The Coffee Trust to capture the stories of coffee farmers’ struggling with food insecurity during the rainy season. After the Harvest brings day-to-day challenges to life in the voices of the coffee farmers themselves and shares the successes of creative projects designed to eliminate this annual period of food insecurity. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm History Detectives.CC Andrew Jackson’s Mouth; Barton Letter; Spybook.
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12am This Old House Hour.CC The Bedford Project, Part 12/16; Installing a Battery Back-up Sump Pump; Fixing a Rusty Metal Railing. (R) 1am POV.CC My Reincarnation.
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Mustang – Journey of Transformation.CC (R) Nature.CC Superfish. (R) NOVA.CC Hunting the Edge of Space – The Mystery of the Milky Way. Part 1/2. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Washington Week.CC 7:30 WSIU InFocus.CC 8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Vintage Phoenix. (R) 9pm Moyers & Company.CC 10pm Need to Know.CC 10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 Newsline.CC
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12am Washington Week.CC (R) 12:30 Need to Know.CC (R) 1am American Masters.CC Judy Garland: By Myself. 3am Queen Victoria’s Empire.CC Engines of Change; Passage to India. Parts 1-2/4. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Lawrence Welk Show.CC Harry Warren Salute. 8pm Globe Trekker.CC World War II in the Pacific. The “Trekkers” explore the epic events of World War II by visiting key locations in the Pacific, a region where military history was made. Sites visited include Pearl Harbor, Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, Bikini Island, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Saipan, Tinian, and the Nagasaki Peace Park. 9pm Masterpiece Mystery!CC Zen: Cabal. Part 2/3. (R) See 6/17 at 8pm. 10:30 Austin City Limits.CC Lyle Lovett; Bob Schneider. 11:30 Official Best of Fest.CC Love VIII. Enjoy three more films about love with Ireland’s The Confession, Australia’s Flowers and Weeds, and Ireland’s Scoring.
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12am NOVA.CC Hunting the Edge of Space – The Mystery of the Milky Way. Part 1/2. (R) 1am Frontline.CC (R) 2am POV.CC My Reincarnation. (R) 3:30 Mustang – Journey of Transformation.CC (R) 4:30 Inside Nature’s Giants.CC Giant Squid. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 1pm Great Performances at the Met.CC Ernani. Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Marcello Giordani is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.
June 4pm See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.CC Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. What do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent American families that have been in this country since its inception. But they share something else, too: both had ancestors who were early opponents of slavery. Bacon’s Quaker ancestors repudiated slavery long before the rest of the country, in 1780. And Sedgwick’s ancestor Theodore Sedgwick argued the freedom case of Elizabeth Freeman, also known as “Mumbet,” in 1781 – which helped bring an end to slavery in Massachusetts. Part 4/10. 8pm Masterpiece Mystery!CC Zen: Ratking. When a wealthy industrialist and political party funder is kidnapped, Zen (Rufus Sewell) is asked to get the hostage back alive at any cost. Meanwhile, his tyrannical new boss jeopardizes Zen’s love affair with Tania. Part 3/3. 9:30 POV.CC My Reincarnation. Filmed over 20 years by documentarian Jennifer Fox, My Reincarnation chronicles the story of exiled Tibetan Buddhist master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu and his Western-born son, Yeshi. As Norbu rises as a teacher in the West, Yeshi, recognized from birth as the reincarnation of a famed Buddhist master, breaks away to embrace the modern world. Can the father convince his son to keep the family’s spiritual legacy alive? (R) 11pm Searching for Roots in Canton.CC (R) See 5/6 at 11pm.
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12am Masterpiece Mystery!CC Zen: Ratking. Part 3/3. (R) 1:30 Morristown: Where America Survived.CC 2am American Masters.CC Judy Garland: By Myself. (R) 4am Antiques Roadshow.CC Vintage Phoenix. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Vintage Secaucus. In 1997, “Captain Bill” Sheehan founded Hackensack Riverkeeper, an advocacy organization dedicated to protecting and conserving the Hackensack River estuary, which includes Secaucus, New Jersey. Among the items featured: a gaming table bought for $25 and appraised at $200,000 to $300,000 now could score between $400,000 to $600,000.
8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Atlantic City, NJ. Part 2/3. 9pm Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work.CC Head of State. For the dramatic ritual that opens Parliament, the queen’s coachmen don full livery, and two of her horse-drawn carriages parade through the streets. One holds the queen – the other carries the crown jewels. Head of State leads viewers through the elaborate state opening of Parliament, from the secret removal of the crown jewels from their Tower of London vault to the moment when the House of Commons slams the door in the face of the queen’s representative to the eventual conclusion when the rowdy Commons stand before their queen. This episode also covers the Queen’s historic visit to the Republic of Estonia. Part 4/6. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm NOVA.CC Hunting the Edge of Space – The Mystery of the Milky Way. Part 1/2. (R) See 6/20 at 8pm.
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12am Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work.CC Head of State. Part 4/6. (R) 1am Antiques Roadshow.CC Vintage Secaucus. (R) 2am Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.CC Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. Part 4/10. (R) 3am Masterpiece Mystery!CC Zen: Ratking. Part 3/3. (R) 4:30 Morristown: Where America Survived.CC (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Queen Victoria’s Empire.CC The Moral Crusade; The Scramble for Africa. The final two episodes examine the battle between Disraeli and Gladstone for control of the British government and the impact of British colonization in Africa. Queen Victoria’s death in 1902 marks the end of an extraordinary era. Parts 3-4/4. 9pm Frontline.CC Episode details unavailable at press time. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm Phoenix Mars Mission: Ashes to Ice.CC The Phoenix Mars Mission, This program chronicles the story of the Phoenix Mars Lander, which launched in August 2007 and landed on the Martian surface in May 2008. The rover’s mission was to collect soil and ice samples to search for trace organics and for evidence of how water has changed the planet’s subsurface environment.
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12am Queen Victoria’s Empire.CC The Moral Crusade; The Scramble for Africa. Parts 3-4/4. (R) 2am Frontline.CC (R) 3am Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work.CC Head of State. Part 4/6. (R) 4am Antiques Roadshow.CC Vintage Secaucus. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Nature.CC Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions. The returning saga of Cloud, the wild, white stallion finds us back in the Arrowhead Mountains of Montana. Cloud is now a confident band stallion in his prime. As he rules the mountains, the story turns to his two sons. Bolder is his by birth. Flint, sired by another stallion, is the colt Cloud raised. Will nature or nurture produce the next great stallion of the Arrowheads? 8pm NOVA.CC Hunting the Edge of Space – The Ever Expanding Universe. From the discovery that the Milky Way is just one galaxy among billions to the stunning revelation that these galaxies are speeding away from each other faster every second, this episode investigates the universe’s distant past and its future. Part 2/2. 9pm Inside Nature’s Giants.CC Camel. Mark Evans and Joy Reidenberg dissect a camel to uncover the secret of the camel’s hump and investigate how its elastic legs, stretchy lips, and pedestal (a strange bump on its chest) enable the animal to thrive in a dry and hostile environment. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm Pioneers in Aviation: The Race to the Moon.CC The Race to the Moon. Post-war America is locked in an ideological struggle with the Soviet Union, an adversary whose philosophy promises the destruction of capitalism. In 1957, the Soviet launch of Sputnik shifts the Cold War battlefield to space and heralds a decade-long race to reach the surface of the moon. Part 3/3.
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12am Nature.CC Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions. (R) 1am NOVA.CC Hunting the Edge of Space – The Ever Expanding Universe. Part 2/2. (R) 2am Inside Nature’s Giants.CC Camel. (R) 3am Queen Victoria’s Empire.CC The Moral Crusade; The Scramble for Africa. Parts 3-4/4. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule.
June 7pm This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 13/16; Preventing Ice Dams; Applying Closed-Cell Spray Foam Insulation in an Attic. 8pm Front Row Center.CC Moby. This multi-talented and eclectic performer showcases his wide range as a musician and songwriter. With assistance from gospel belter Inyang Bassey and torch singer Kelli Scarr, Moby performs songs from the past 20 years, including “South Side,” “Natural Blues,” and “Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?” 9pm One Voice.CC Every year in Hawai’i, 2,000 high school students compete in the Kamehameha Schools Song Contest, in which young leaders direct their peers in singing Hawaiian music in four-part harmony. One Voice shares the thrill of the competition through personal stories from the student song directors combined with details about the students’ families, hopes, and dreams. 10pm Charlie Rose.CC 11pm History Detectives.CC Cromwell Dixon; Bartlett Sketchbook; Duke Ellington Plates.
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12am This Old House Hour.CC Bedford Project, Part 13/16; Preventing Ice Dams; Applying Closed-Cell Spray Foam Insulation in an Attic. (R) 1am POV.CC Granito: How to Nail a Dictator. 2:30 Morristown: Where America Survived.CC (R) 3am Nature.CC Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions. (R) 4am NOVA.CC Hunting the Edge of Space – The Ever Expanding Universe. Part 2/2. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Washington Week.CC 7:30 WSIU InFocus.CC 8pm Antiques Roadshow.CC Vintage Secaucus. (R) See 6/25 at 7pm. 9pm Moyers & Company.CC 10pm Need to Know.CC 10:30 Charlie Rose.CC 11:30 Newsline.CC
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Washington Week.CC (R) Need to Know.CC (R) Mariachi High – PBS Arts.CC One Voice.CC (R) Queen Victoria’s Empire.CC The Moral Crusade; The Scramble for Africa. Parts 3-4/4. (R) 5am See Daytime Schedule. 7pm Lawrence Welk Show.CC Country & Western.
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8pm Globe Trekker.CC Amsterdam City Guide 2. In Amsterdam, Jonathan visits the Rijksmuseum, which has a magnificent collection of paintings by the great Dutch Masters. Brianna marvels at the artistic genius of Vincent van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum and visits the Anne Frank House to hear about the young girl’s last days in hiding from the Nazis. 9pm Masterpiece Mystery!CC Zen: Ratking. Part 3/3. (R) See 6/24 at 8pm. 10:30 Austin City Limits.CC Randy Newman. 11:30 Official Best of Fest.CC Girl Power. In The Planning Lady, a guidance counselor wants Candace to decide on a career path…but Candace is only in the second grade. Charlotte’s Red tells the story of seven-year-old Charlotte’s talent for painting – and her father’s talent for burglary.
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Tune in to These PBS KIDS Specials!
Franny’s Feet Joins WSIU’s PBS KIDS Lineup
Angelina Ballerina: The Shining Star Trophy Saturday, May 12 • 8-9am (repeats 5/13, 8am)
Angelina tries to help her friends find their special talents for the big show at Camembert Academy, but has little time to work on her own routine. Will she be ready for the big day?
Dinosaur Train: Dinosaurs A to Z Monday, May 14 • 8-9am
(repeats 5/18, 8am; 5/19 & 5/20, 7am) While riding the Dino Train, Tiny gets the idea to gather all the dinosaurs together for a picnic at Troodon Town. As all 26 dinosaurs board the train, Tiny and his friends learn about classification by organizing the dinosaurs by species, features, and size.
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SIU is pleased to welcome the children’s series Franny’s Feet to our PBS KIDS programming schedule beginning Tuesday, June 5. An international hit, the award-winning series is aimed at children ages 4-7. In every episode, while helping her grandpa in his shoe repair shop, Franny slips on a pair of shoes and says ‘Where will my feet take me today...?’ From there, she is transported to places
Sunday, June 10 • 9-10am (repeats 6/15, 2pm)
SuperWHY: Around the World Adventure Friday, June 15 • 8-9am (repeats 6/16 & 6/17, 7am)
With their teacher’s assistance, Whyatt and his friends have befriended a girl from another school. A wacky explorer helps them find her on a trip around the world.
The fun continues online at pbskids. org/frannysfeet, where kids can join Franny on adventures around the world. They can also engage in a variety of entertaining and educational games, including those that help build vocabulary.
WSIU Celebrates Read Across America
Biz Kid$: Three Minutes to Change the World
Four young innovators compete for a global prize. Their goal? To inspire people of all ages to use innovation and technology to bring about change in their communities.
around the globe – from the middle of the African Savannah to a Mexican fiesta to a tea ceremony in Japan – where she meets new friends and tries to help them solve problems. Along the way, she shares her friends’ feelings and fears, and offers her best advice.
Children enjoy Read Across America activity books. Photo: Jordan Figura.
and SIU student Lindsay DuBois, a special appearance by The Cat in the Hat (WSIU promotions graduate student Katie Tullis), and activity books that promoted recycling and other eco-friendly activities. All children received a new book, with additional books offered as door prizes. The event closed with a Dr. Seuss-themed birthday celebration.
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SIU’s Raising Readers joined 25 families and their children, many of them from the international community, at Unity Point Elementary School in Carbondale for a fun day of reading on Friday, March 2 as part of “Read Across America.” This annual reading motivation and awareness program calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss. Students, their parents, and teachers enjoyed a reading of the Dr. Seuss book The Lorax by WSIU outreach assistant
WSIU student Lindsay DuBois (center, with book) reads from The Lorax while the Cat (Katie Tullis) and children look on. Photo: Jordan Figura.
May / June 2012
MEMORIAL DAY
Celebrate with Inspiring Programs on WSIU-TV LOCAL BROADCASTS
The program explores Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Pittsburgh-area military veterans of Vietnam, Korea, and World War II.
The program chronicles the fall of the Philippines and the Bataan Death March during the early months of World War II. Narrated by Alec Baldwin.
Earth, Stone & Memories: Historic Cemeteries and What They Tell Us | Sun, May 27 • 2:30pm
This film explores historic cemeteries in our region, how they engage our imagination and emotion, and how they inspire us to learn more about our shared history.
WSIU InFocus: Quiet Acres: Mound City National Cemetery | Mon, May 28 • 12am (repeats 5/28, 5:30pm & 11:30pm)
POV: Where Soldiers Come From Sun, May 20 • 11pm
This film follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who join the National Guard after graduating from high school.
NOVA: Killer Subs In Pearl Harbor Wed, May 23 • 8pm (repeats 5/24, 1am; 5/25, 3am; 5/27, 12am; 5/29, 11pm)
Discover the Civil War heritage of Southern Illinois and learn how the Mound City National Cemetery site offers a visual testament of that history.
Join an exclusive dive beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace new clues to the sinking of the USS Arizona.
Black Jack Logan Mon, May 28 • 8pm
This film explores the life and times of Civil War General John A. Logan. Produced by Chris Yoars, an SIU alumnus in Professional Media Practice.
STORIES OF PEOPLE AND PLACES American Road to Victory Wed, May 2, May 9 & May 16 • 11pm
Over 100,000 United States veterans go homeless each year. This film reveals the long-term scars of war and personal tragedy that can lead to life on the streets.
Shelter Me | Wed, May 23 • 9pm (repeats 5/27, 6pm)
Learn how shelter animals are helping war veterans cope with debilitating injuries after returning home.
Vietnam War Stories | Wed, May 23 • 11pm
Battlefield historian Ellwood von Seibold leads a tour of World War II battlefields, from Hell’s Highway in Holland to the frozen Ardennes forests of the Battle of the Bulge.
Street Vets | Sun, May 6 • 1pm
In observance of Memorial Day, WSIU and PBS will broadcast inspiring documentaries, historical films, and music specials to honor the great men and women who helped to build a nation. We’ll also celebrate the unique history, culture, and stories of our region.
Long Road Home Mon, May 7 • 9pm (repeats 5/27, 11pm)
The Tragedy of Bataan | Sun, May 27 • 2pm (also airs 5/17, 12:30am)
This film shares Vietnam veterans’ personal memories of service and sacrifice and provides insight into the experience of war.
NOVA: Missing in MiG Alley | Thu, May 24 • 2am (repeats 5/25, 4am; 5/27, 1am)
Families share the poignant and sometimes harrowing stories of their efforts to learn the fate of pilots missing in dogfights over Korea.
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Independent Lens: Left by the Ship Fri, May 25 • 1am (repeats 5/27, 3am)
Four Asian-American children search for their U.S. soldier fathers who were stationed in the Philippines.
Unforgettable: The Korean War Fri, May 25 • 2am
Korean War veterans recount their memories of the U.S. in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Bataan: A 70th Anniversary Commemoration Sun, May 27 • 1pm
Journalist Matt Grubs interviews Bataan veterans in New Mexico. This film was inspired in part by the locally-produced documentary The Tragedy of Bataan.
Independent Lens: Hell and Back Again | Mon, May 28 • 9pm (repeats 5/29, 12am; 6./2, 2:30pm)
Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris struggles to cope with life at home. Warning: For mature audiences only.
SOUNDTRACK TO A NATION America’s Veterans: A Musical Tribute Thu, May 24 • 9pm
The United States Air Force Band, The Singing Sergeants, and a full orchestra salute the U.S. Armed Forces.
National Memorial Day Concert 2012 Sun, May 27 • 7 & 8:30pm (repeats 5/28, 12:30am & 3:30am; 5/29, 2:30am) This annual concert features dignitaries, actors, musical artists, and the National Symphony Orchestra.
War Bonds: The Songs and Letters of World War II Sun, May 27 • 10pm This program weaves together the songs of the WWII era with letters from the frontlines and the homefront.
Thursday, October 4 Thursday, October 25
WSIU is partnering with the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at SIU Carbondale to host two WSIU-TV 50th anniversary events this fall featuring public lectures by former Illinois Senator Alan J. Dixon and former Illinois Governor James R. Thompson. Dixon and Thompson will review their years in Illinois politics, look ahead to the future, and comment on the challenges facing Illinois today. Mark your calendars for the dates listed and stay tuned for details as they develop!
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