April 2012 Program Guide

APRIL 2012

Every Day is Earth Day

Q: Why does Nature con-

tinue to attract so many

viewers and filmmakers?

A: I think it’s because we’re

committed to finding the

most interesting stories in

our genre, spending the ap-

propriate time researching

and developing films, and

working with the best film-

makers in the natural history

business. Filmmakers tell

me they love working with

tHIrteen and the Nature

team because they trust

our guidance and support

and we can tell our stories

without commercial inter-

ruption. that’s a real luxury

in today’s media landscape.

Q: What qualities do you

look for when considering

story ideas and proposals?

A: some of the things we

think about are: Is this story

right for Nature and will it

hold our audience’s atten-

tion? Does the producer

have the talent, access,

and experience to make

the film? Although Nature

is known for story-driven

natural history films and

stunning cinematography,

we also feel it’s important

to address topical stories

as we did in Salmon: Run-

ning the Gauntlet, which

looks at endangered Pacific

salmon populations.

We’re also attracted

to stories that give our

viewers an inside look at

an environmental situation

that may otherwise be off-

limits, such as Radioactive

Wolves, which examines

the health of wildlife pop-

ulations in Chernobyl’s

radioactive exclusion zone.

you can catch a special

encore presentation of this

film Wednesday, April 25

at 8 p.m.

Q: Is there a program you’re

particularly excited about

in the 30th anniversary

season?

A: one of my favorites is

My Life as a Turkey, the true

story of “turkey mom” Joe

Hutto. If you haven’t seen

it, I recommend stream-

ing it from thirteen.org. It’s

must-see tV. I’m also very

excited about our pipeline

of films in production for our

31st season, so stay tuned!

EvERY YEAR ON APRIL 22, people across the world celebrate earth Day. on

Nature, the award-winning series produced by tHIrteen and now in its 30th

season, every day is earth Day. each week, the series brings the beauty and endless

wonders of our planet to viewers, capturing the world’s ecosystems and their varied

inhabitants in intimate detail.

series Producer Bill Murphy spoke with tHIrteen about the dedication and

detail that go into the creation of television’s premier natural history series.

NATURAL WONDERS

Major corporate support for Nature is provided by Canon u.s.A., Inc. Additional support is provided by the Lillian

goldman Charitable trust, the Filomen M. D’Agostino Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and

the nation’s public television stations.

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1 SUNDAY

6:00 PREmIERE Moyers & Company Conversations about life and American democracy, with Bill Moyers.

7:00 NOVA

8:00 PREmIERE Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Harvard scholar Henry Louis gates, Jr. delves into the genealogy of celebrity guests bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link. (PArt 3 oF 10) rePeAts

eArLy tue 3rD, 1:30AM. IH

9:00 PREmIERE Masterpiece Classic: “Great Expectations”An orphan boy becomes a gentleman under the patronage of a mysteri-ous benefactor. With gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham. (PArt 1 oF 2) re-

PeAts eArLy tue 3rD, 2:30AM

AnD eArLy sAt 7tH, 4AM.

10:00 PREmIERE Saving The Titanic the Titanic’s final hours, told from the point of view of the engineers and firemen below deck. rePeAts eArLy

tue 3rD, 3:30AM; tue 10tH,

9PM; AnD eArLy tHu 12tH,

2AM.

11:00 PREmIERE Independent Lens: “You’re Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don’t” Inside an Alzheimer’s treatment facility. rePeAts eArLy

tue 3rD, 4:30AM.

4/02 EARLY mONDAY Am 12:00 Triangle Fire: American Experience [r]

1:00 Quest for the Lost Maya [r]

2:00 Dutch New York [r]

3:00 Globe Trekker [r]

4:00 Masterpiece Classic: “The 39 Steps” [r]

2 mONDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider. 6:30 Nightly Business Report7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 PREmIERE Antiques Roadshow texas treasures. rePeAts eArLy tHu 5tH, 4AM. 9:00 PREmIERE AmericanMasters: “Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel” seminal events in the life of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind. rePeAts

eArLy WeD 4tH, 4AM AnD

sun 8tH, 7PM. 10:00 PREmIERE American Masters: “Harper Lee: Hey Boo” the phenomenon behind To Kill a Mockingbird and the mysterious life of its author. rePeAts sAt 7tH,

2:30PM; eArLy sun 8tH, 4AM;

AnD eArLy Mon 9tH, 12MID.

11:30 Charlie Rose rePeAts

tue 3rD, 1:30PM.

4/03 EARLY TUESDAY Am 12:30 Tavis Smiley rePeAts

tue 3rD, 1PM.

1:00 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:30 Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. see sun 1st, 8PM. [r] IH

2:30 Masterpiece Classic see sun 1st, 9PM. rePeAts

eArLy sAt 7tH, 4AM.

3:30 Saving The Titanic see

sun 1st, 10PM. rePeAts tue 10tH,

9PM AnD eArLy tHu 12tH, 2AM. [r]

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RIvER Of NO RETURN (Wed 18th, 8 p.m.) follows a young couple’s

adventures in the vast Frank Church—river of no return Wilderness in Idaho.

this Nature special is just one of the many programs we’re airing this month

to celebrate Earth Day. Look for program listings with the E symbol.

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4:30 Independent Lens see sun 1st, 11PM. [r]

3 TUESDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider. 6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 PREmIERE Grand Coulee Dam: American Experience During the great Depression, this dam transformed the northwest. rePeAts eArLy tHu 5tH, 1AM

AnD eArLy FrI 6tH, 4AM.

9:30 Panama Canal: American Experience the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. rePeAts eArLy

tHu 5tH, 2:30AM. [r]


WeD 4tH, 1:30PM.

4/04 EARLY WEDNESDAY Am 12:00 Tavis Smiley rePeAts

WeD 4tH, 1PM.

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Reel 13 Indies: “The Shipping News” (2001) [r]

2:30 American Masters see Mon 2nD, 10PM. rePeAts

sAt 7tH, 2:30PM; eArLy sun

8tH, 4AM; AnD eArLy Mon 9tH,

12MID. [r] 4:00 American Masters see Mon 2nD, 9PM. rePeAts

sun 8tH, 7PM. [r]

5:00 In The Life [r]

4 WEDNESDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today 6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour

8:00 Nature: “Ocean Giants: Deep Thinkers” the intelligence of whales and dolphins, and their simi-larities to humans. rePeAts

eArLy FrI 6tH, 1AM AnD sAt

7tH, 5PM.

9:00 PREmIERE NOVA: “Hunting The Elements” unlocking the secrets of the elements. rePeAts eArLy

FrI 6tH, 2AM. 11:00 Charlie Rose rePeAts

tHu 5tH, 1:30PM.

4/05 EARLY ThURSDAY Am 12:00 Tavis Smiley rePeAts tHu 5tH, 1PM.

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Grand Coulee Dam: American Experience see tue 3rD, 8PM. [r]

2:30 Panama Canal: American Experience see tue 3rD, 9:30PM. [r]

4:00 Antiques Roadshow see Mon 2nD, 8PM. [r]

5:00 Travelscope [r]

5 ThURSDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today

6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 PREmIERE NYC-ARTS new york arts and culture with Philippe de Montebel-lo and Paula Zahn. rePeAts

eArLy sAt 7tH, 2AM AnD sun

8tH, 12PM.

8:30 Treasures of New York: “The New-York Historical Society” the renovation and reinvention of new york’s oldest museum. Hosted by Jon Meacham. [r]

9:00 Masterpiece Mystery!: “Foyle’s War, Series VI: The Russian House” A crime wave seizes england after V-e Day. rePeAts eArLy

sAt 7tH, 2:30AM. [r]

10:30 Bluegrass Underground: “Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder” the country music legend. rePeAts

eArLy WeD 11, 5AM. [r] 11:00 Charlie Rose rePeAts

FrI 6tH, 1:30PM.

4/06 EARLY fRIDAY Am 12:00 Tavis Smiley rePeAts FrI 6tH, 1PM.

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Nature see WeD 4tH,

8PM. rePeAts sAt 7tH, 5PM. [r]

2:00 NOVA see WeD 4tH,

9PM. [r] 4:00 Grand Coulee Dam see tue 3rD, 8PM. [r]

6 fRIDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider.

6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Washington Week rePeAts sAt 7tH, 9AM.

8:30 PREmIERE Need to Know With Maria Hinojosa. rePeAts sAt 7tH,

9:30AM.

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THeaTer

COMiNG BACK iN April

JANUArY SHOWS SOlD OUT

“An extraordinary experience…”

— Cate Blanchett Academy Award-winning actress

9:00 PREmIERE Live from Lincoln Center: “Renée Fleming @ The Penthouse” the soprano performs 19th-century songs and contemporary jazz, rock and Broadway melodies. With the orpheus Chamber ensemble and Josh groban. rePeAts sun 8tH, 12:30PM.

10:30 PREmIERE Live from the Artists Den: “Iron and Wine” Frontman sam Beam and the band perform at Atlanta’s Buckhead theatre. 11:30 Charlie Rose rePeAts

Mon 9tH, 1:30PM.

4/07 EARLY SATURDAY Am 12:30 Tavis Smiley rePeAts

Mon 9tH, 1PM.

1:00 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:30 Theater Talk2:00 NYC-ARTS see

tHu 5tH, 8PM. rePeAts

sun 8tH, 12PM. [r]

2:30 Masterpiece Mystery! see tHu 5tH, 9PM. [r] 4:00 Masterpiece Classic see sun 1st, 9PM. [r]

5:00 Treasures of New York see tHu 5tH, 8:30PM. [r]

7 SATURDAY

6:00 Mike Colameco’s Real Food 6:30 Lidia’s Italy In America7:00 This Old House 8:00 Keeping Up Appearances Hyacinth wreaks havoc on richard’s life. [r]

8:30 As Time Goes By Jean and Lionel take an interest in sandy’s boyfriend. [r]

9:00 PREmIERE Reel 13 Classics: “Local Hero” (1983) An oilman goes

native in a quirky scottish town when there on business. With Peter riegert. rePeAts eArLy sun 8tH,

12:30AM.

10:55 PREmIERE Reel 13 Indies: “Speakeasy” (2002) two men become un-likely friends. stars David strathairn. rePeAts eArLy

sun 8tH, 2:25AM AnD

eArLy WeD 11tH, 1AM.

4/08 EARLY SUNDAY Am 12:25 PREmIERE Reel 13 Shorts rePeAts eArLy

sun 8tH, 3:55AM AnD eArLy

WeD 11tH, 2:25AM.

12:30 Reel 13 Classics see sAt 7tH, 9PM. [r]

2:25 Reel 13 Indies see

sAt 7tH, 10:55PM. rePeAts

eArLy WeD 11tH, 1AM. [r]

3:55 Reel 13 Shorts see

sun 8tH, 12:25AM. rePeAts

eArLy WeD 11tH, 2:25AM. [r]

4:00 American Masters see Mon 2nD, 10PM. [r]

8 SUNDAY

6:00 PREmIERE Moyers & Company Conversations about life and American democracy, with Bill Moyers. rePeAts Mon 9tH,

10:30PM AnD eArLy tHu 12tH,

4AM.

7:00 American Masters see Mon 2nD, 9PM. [r]

8:00 PREmIERE Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Harvard scholar Henry Louis gates, Jr. delves into the genealogy and genetics of celebrity guests bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link. (PArt 4 oF 10) rePeAts

eArLy tue 10tH, 1:30AM. IH

9:00 PREmIERE Masterpiece Classic: “Great Expectations” An orphan boy becomes a gentleman under the patronage of a mysterious benefactor. With David suchet. (PArt 2 oF 2) rePeAts

eArLy tue 10tH, 2:30AM AnD

eArLy sAt 14tH, 4AM.

11:00 PREmIERE To Be Heard three Bronx teens write poetry and blossom. rePeAts eArLy tue 10tH, 4:30AM.

4/09 EARLY mONDAY Am 12:00 American Masters see Mon 2nD, 10PM. [r]

1:30 Catholicism

9 mONDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider. 6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 PREmIERE Antiques Roadshow el Paso treasures. rePeAts eArLy

WeD 11tH, 2:30AM.

9:00 PREmIERE Independent Lens: “Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey” How puppeteer Kevin Clash followed his dream to be a part of Jim Henson’s team. rePeAts eArLy WeD 11tH,

3:30AM AnD sAt 14tH, 1:30PM.

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10:30 Moyers & Company see sun 8tH, 6PM. rePeAts

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tue 10tH, 1:30PM.


tue 10tH, 1PM.

1:00 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:30 Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. see sun 8tH, 8PM. IH

2:30 Masterpiece Classic see sun 8tH, 9PM. rePeAts

eArLy sAt 14tH, 4AM. [r]

4:30 To Be Heard see

sun 8tH, 11PM. [r]

10 TUESDAY


6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 PREmIERE Titanic

with Len Goodman the Dancing with the Stars judge explores the impact of the Titanic disaster. rePeAts eArLy tHu 12tH, 1AM.

9:00 Saving The Titanic see sun 1st, 10PM. rePeAts


10:00 Frontline11:00 Charlie Rose rePeAts

WeD 11tH, 1:30PM.

4/11 EARLY WEDNESDAY Am12:00 Tavis Smiley rePeAts

WeD 11tH, 1PM.

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Reel 13 Indies see

sAt 7tH, 10:55PM. [r]


eArLy sun 8tH, 12:25AM. [r]

2:30 Antiques Roadshow see Mon 9tH, 8PM. [r]

3:30 Independent Lens see Mon 9tH, 9PM. rePeAts

sAt 14tH, 1:30PM. [r] 5:00 Bluegrass Underground see sun 5tH,

10:30PM. [r]

11 WEDNESDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider. 6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Nature: “Ocean Giants: Voices of the Sea” A surprising underwater world where sound takes the place of sight. rePeAts

eArLy FrI 13tH, 1AM, AnD sAt

14tH, 5PM.

9:00 PREmIERE NOVA: “Deadliest Tornadoes” the science behind the deadly April 2011 tornadoes. rePeAts eArLy FrI 13tH, 2AM

AnD sun 15tH, 7PM.

10:00 PREmIERE America Revealed: “Food Machine” Host yul Kwon (Survivor) looks at the American food machine. rePeAts eArLy


tHu 12tH, 1:30PM.

Celebrating Immigrant Week

WNET hAS PARTNERED WITh the Mayor’s

office of Immigrant Affairs to develop the

Community stories campaign, a series of short

videos highlighting the rich cultural heritage of

new yorkers who came to this city and made

it their own. Watch the videos and share your

story at thirteen.org/community-stories.

And join us on-air as we celebrate

Immigrant Heritage Week (April 17-24)

with special programming spotlighting the

immigrant experience.

Look for program listings with the IH symbol.

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EvENINg AND NIghT4/12 EARLY ThURSDAY Am 12:00 Tavis Smiley rePeAts

tHu 12tH, 1PM.

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Titanic with Len Goodman see tue 10tH,

8PM. [r] 2:00 Saving The Titanic see tue 10tH, 9PM. [r] 3:00 Frontline [r] 4:00 Moyers & Company see sun 8tH, 6PM. [r]


12 ThURSDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider. 6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 PREmIERE NYC-ARTS new york arts and culture with Philippe de Montebel-lo and Paula Zahn. rePeAts

eArLy sAt 14tH, 1:30AM.

8:30 Treasures of New York: “Park Avenue Armory” How the once endangered, crumbling, Park Avenue Armory is being trans-formed. Presented by Morley safer. rePeAts eArLy

sAt 14tH, 2AM AnD eArLy

Mon 16tH, 5AM. [r] 9:00 Masterpiece Mystery!: “Foyle’s War, Series VI: Killing Time” A gI is accused of murder. rePeAts

eArLy sAt 14tH, 2:30AM. [r]

10:30 PREmIERE Finding Kalman shared memories and art help a family reclaim the spirit of a child lost in the Holocaust. rePeAts sAt 14tH, 1PM AnD

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FrI 13tH, 1:30PM.

4/13 EARLY fRIDAY Am 12:00 Tavis Smiley rePeAts

FrI 13tH, 1PM.

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato

1:00 Nature see WeD 11tH,

8PM. rePeAts sAt 14tH, 5PM.

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9PM. rePeAts sun 15tH, 7PM. [r]

3:00 America Revealed see WeD 11tH, 10PM. [r]

4:00 When Worlds Collide [r]

13 fRIDAY


6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Washington Week rePeAts sAt 14tH, 9AM.

8:30 PREmIERE Need to Know With ray suarez. rePeAts sAt 14tH, 9:30AM.

9:00 PREmIERE Art in the Twenty-First Century: “Change” Artists Ai Weiwei, el Anatsui and Catherine opie.

Introducing The MetroFocus

iPhone App

WE’RE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE our new MetroFocus

iPhone app, our first mobile app spotlighting local

news, culture and life in and around new york. Jump-

start your morning routine with customized weather

and transit alerts, browse feature stories, videos, and

podcasts, and stay in the know with our daily round-up

of local news from other media outlets.

the MetroFocus app is available free of charge

to iPhone users and may be downloaded from the

itunes store.

Learn more at thirteen.org/MetroFocus/mobile

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10:00 PREmIERE Front Row Center Veteran artists and today’s top musicians in concert at st. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn and the roseland Ballroom in Manhattan. 11:00 Charlie Rose rePeAts

Mon 16tH, 1:30PM.


Mon 16tH, 1PM.

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Theater Talk 1:30 NYC-ARTS see tHu 12tH,

8PM. [r]

2:00 Treasures of New York see tHu 12tH, 8:30PM. rePeAts

eArLy Mon 16tH, 5AM. [r] 2:30 Masterpiece Mystery! see tHu 12tH, 9PM. [r]

4:00 Masterpiece Classic see sun 8tH, 9PM. [r]

14 SATURDAY

6:00 Mike Colameco’s Real Food 6:30 Lidia’s Italy In America 7:00 This Old House 8:00 Keeping Up Appearances Hyacinth invites the new vicar to tea. [r]

8:30 As Time Goes By Jean snoops. [r]

9:00 Reel 13 Classics: “Bringing Up Baby” (1938) An heiress, a paleontologist and a leopard meet cute in this classic screwball comedy. stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary grant. rePeAts eArLy sun 15tH,

1:10AM. 11:30 Reel 13 Indies: “The Station Agent” (2003) A train-obsessed man (Peter Dinklage) tries to maintain

his solitude. With Patricia Clarkson. rePeAts eArLy

sun 15tH, 3AM AnD eArLy

WeD 18tH, 1AM. [r]


sun 15tH, 4:35AM AnD eArLy

WeD 18tH, 2:30AM. [r]

1:10 Reel 13 Classics see sAt 14tH, 9PM. [r] 3:00 Reel 13 Indies see

sAt 14tH, 11:30PM. rePeAts

eArLy WeD 18tH, 1AM. [r]


eArLy sun 15tH, 1:05AM eArLy

WeD 18tH, 2:30AM. [r]

4:40 Globe Trekker [r]

15 SUNDAY

6:00 PREmIERE Moyers & Company Conversations about life and American democracy, with Bill Moyers. rePeAts Mon 16tH,

10PM AnD eArLy tHu 19tH,

4AM.


9PM. [r] 8:00 PREmIERE Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Harvard scholar Henry Louis gates, Jr. delves into the genealogy and genetics of celebrity guests who are bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link. (PArt 5 oF 10) rePeAts eArLy

tue 17tH, 1AM. IH

9:00 PREmIERE Masterpiece Classic: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” Charles Dickens’ tale of choirmaster obsessed with a teenage girl. rePeAts eArLy

tue 17tH, 2AM. 11:00 PREmIERE Independent Lens: “When The Drum Is Beating” Haiti’s most popular band septentri-onal has survived corrupt governments and national tragedy. rePeAts eArLy tue

17tH, 4AM. IH

4/16 EARLY mONDAY Am 12:00 The Reconstruction of Asa Carter see sun 15tH,

2:30PM. [r] 1:00 Independent Lens: “Reel Injun” [r]

2:00 To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey rePeAts eArLy WeD 18tH,

4:35AM. [r]

3:00 50th & 8th: A Skyscraper Story [r]


16 mONDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today 6:30 Nightly Business Report7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 PREmIERE Antiques Roadshow Atlanta treasures. rePeAts eArLy

WeD 18tH, 2:35AM.

9:00 Antiques Roadshow Providence, rhode Island treasures. rePeAts eArLy

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2:00 Masterpiece Classic see sun 15tH, 9PM. [r] 4:00 Independent Lens see sun 15tH, 11PM. [r]


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6:30 Nightly Business Report7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Four Seasons Lodge A group of Holocaust sur-vivors have spent 25 years summering together in the Catskills. rePeAts eArLy

tHu 19tH, 1AM. [r] IH H

9:00 Hoover Dam: American Experience the dam transformed the southwest during the great Depression. rePeAts eArLy

FrI 20tH, 4:30AM.

10:00 Frontline 11:00 Charlie Rose rePeAts

WeD 18tH, 1:30PM.


WeD 18tH, 1PM.

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Reel 13 Indies see

sAt 14tH, 11:30PM. [r] 2:30 Reel 13 Shorts see

eArLy sun 15tH, 1:05AM. [r]

2:35 Antiques Roadshow

see Mon 16tH, 8PM. [r]

3:35 Antiques Roadshow see Mon 16tH, 9PM. [r]

4:35 To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey see

eArLy Mon 16tH, 2AM. [r]

18 WEDNESDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider. 6:30 Nightly Business Report7:00 PBS NewsHour

8:00 PREmIERE Nature: “River of No Return” A young couple spends their year-long honey-moon facing challenges in the Frank Church—river of no return Wil-derness in Idaho. rePeAts

eArLy Mon 23rD, 4:30AM.

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9:00 PREmIERE NOVA: “Why Ships Sink” Are you safe aboard a modern cruise ship? rePeAts eArLy

FrI 20tH, 3AM. [r]

10:00 PREmIERE America Revealed: “Nation on the Move” Survivor winner yul Kwon journeys across America by air, road and rail. rePeAts eArLy


tHu 19tH, 1:30PM.

4/19 EARLY ThURSDAY Am 12:00 Tavis Smiley rePeAts

tHu 19tH, 1PM.


1:00 Four Seasons Lodge see tue 17tH, 8PM. [r] IH H

2:00 Swimming In Auschwitz [r] H

3:00 Frontline [r]

4:00 Moyers & Company see sun 15tH, 6PM. [r]

5:00 Finding Kalman see tHu 12tH, 10:30PM. [r] H

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5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider. 6:30 Nightly Business Report7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 PREmIERE NYC-ARTS new york arts and culture with Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. rePeAts

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8:30 PREmIERE Great Performances at the Met: “Rodelinda” Handel’s opera stars soprano renée Fleming, Andreas scholl, and stephanie Blythe. rePeAts sun 22nD,

12:30PM

4/20 EARLY fRIDAY Am 12:00 Charlie Rose rePeAts

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5:00 Travelscope

20 fRIDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider. 6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Washington Week rePeAts sAt 21st, 9AM. 8:30 PREmIERE Need to Know With scott simon, Maria Hinojosa, ray suarez, and Jeff greenfield. rePeAts

sAt 21st, 9:30AM. 9:00 PREmIERE Art in the Twenty-First Century: “Boundaries” explore the works and techniques of artists David Altmejd, tabaimo and Lynda Benglis.10:00 PREmIERE Front Row Center Veteran artists and today’s top musicians in concert at st. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn and the roseland Ballroom in Manhattan. 11:00 Charlie Rose rePeAts

Mon 23rD, 1:30PM.


Mon 23rD, 1PM.

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Theater Talk 1:30 NYC-ARTS see

tHu 19tH, 8PM. rePeAts sun

22nD, 12PM. [r]

2:00 American Masters: “I.M. Pei: Building China

Modern” [r] IH

3:00 A Sense of Wonder environmentalist and author rachel Carson. [r] E

4:00 The Adirondacks [r]

21 SATURDAY

6:00 Mike Colameco’s Real Food 6:30 Lidia’s Italy In America 7:00 The This Old House Hour 8:00 Keeping Up Appearances Hyacinth craves culture. [r]

8:30 As Time Goes By A weekend in the country. [r]

9:00 PREmIERE Reel 13 Classics: “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” (1981) the relationship of two actors on a movie set parallels the Victorian characters they are playing. With Meryl streep. rePeAts

eArLy sun 22nD, 1AM.

11:10 PREmIERE Reel 13 Indies: “Protektor” (2009) A Czech journalist tries to protect his Jewish wife during WWII. rePeAts

eArLy sun 22nD, 3:10AM AnD

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3:10 Reel 13 Indies see

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WeD 25tH, 1AM. [r] H


sun 22nD, 12:55AM. rePeAts

eArLy WeD 25tH, 4:25AM. [r]

4:55 Secrets of the Dead:

“Escape from Auschwitz” rePeAts eArLy WeD 25tH,

2:40AM AnD eArLy sAt 28tH,

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22 SUNDAY

6:00 PREmIERE Moyers & Company Conversations about life and American democracy, with Bill Moyers. rePeAts Mon 23rD,

10PM AnD eArLy tHu 26tH,

4AM.

7:00 PREmIERE Lidia Celebrates America: “Weddings: Something Borrowed, Something New” Chef Lidia Bastianich visits culturally diverse weddings, with Sex and the City’s Mario Cantone and others. IH

8:00 PREmIERE Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Harvard scholar Henry Louis gates, Jr. delves into the genealogy and genetics of celebrity guests bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link. (PArt 6 oF 10) rePeAts eArLy

tue 24tH, 1AM. IH

9:00 PREmIERE Masterpiece Classic: “Birdsong” Lovers torn apart by World War I. (PArt 1 oF 2) rePeAts eArLy

tue 24tH, 2AM.

10:30 Powering The Planet — Earth: The Operators’ Manual nations that are transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. rePeAts eArLy

tue 24tH, 4:30AM. [r] E

11:30 PREmIERE Independent Lens: “Revenge of the Electric Car” the race to manufacture and market electric cars. rePeAts eArLy

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2:00 Earth: The Operators’ Manual [r] E

3:00 American Masters: “John Muir in the New World” [r] E

4:30 Nature see WeD 18tH,

8PM. [r] E

23 mONDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider. 6:3 Nightly Business Report7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 PREmIERE Antiques Roadshow Atlanta treasures include a signed copy of Gone With the Wind. rePeAts eArLy

WeD 25tH, 3:40AM.9:00 Antiques Roadshow In Providence, puppets from the film Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer. re-

PeAts eArLy sAt 28tH, 5AM. [r]

10:00 Moyers & Company see sun 22nD, 6PM. rePeAts



tue 24tH, 1:30PM.


tue 24tH, 1PM.

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. see sun 22nD, 8PM. IH

2:00 Masterpiece Classic see sun 22nD, 9PM. [r]

3:30 Front Row Center see FrI 13tH, 10PM. [r]

4:30 Powering The Planet—Earth: The

Operators’ Manual see sun

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6:30 Nightly Business Report7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 The Crash of 1929: American Experience the year the boom went bust. rePeAts eArLy tHu 26tH, 1AM,

AnD eArLy Mon 30tH, 2AM. [r]

9:00 PREmIERE Frontline: “Money, Power and Wall Street” rePeAts eArLy Mon

30tH, 3AM.


WeD 25tH, 1:30PM


WeD 25tH, 1PM. 12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Reel 13 Indies see

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2:35 Reel 13 Shorts see eAr-

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2:40 Secrets of the Dead rePeAts eArLy sAt 28tH, 4AM.

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3:40 Antiques Roadshow see Mon 23rD, 8PM. [r]

4:40 Travelscope

25 WEDNESDAY


6:30 Nightly Business Report7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Nature: “Radioactive Wolves” scientists examine wildlife thriving in Cher-nobyl’s dead zone 25 years

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sAt 28tH, 5PM; AnD eArLy

Mon 30tH, 1AM. [r]

9:00 PREmIERE NOVA: “Secrets of the Sun” Destructive solar storms. rePeAts eArLy FrI 27tH, 2AM

AnD sun 29tH, 7PM.

10:00 PREmIERE America Revealed: “Electric Nation” the modern electric power grid. rePeAts eArLy

FrI 27tH, 3AM.


tHu 26tH, 1:30PM.

4/26 EARLY ThURSDAY Am 12:00 Tavis Smiley rePeAts

tHu 26tH, 1PM.

12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 American Experience see tue 24tH, 8PM. [r]

2:00 Frontline [r]

4:00 Moyers & Company see sun 22nD, 6PM. [r] 5:00 Travelscope

26 ThURSDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today 6:30 Nightly Business Report7:00 PBS NewsHour

8:00 PREmIERE NYC-ARTS new york arts and culture with Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn. rePeAts

eArLy sAt 28tH, 1:30AM AnD

sun 29tH, 12PM.

8:30 Treasures of New York: “Hearst Tower” examines the rich history of the 1928 building and the world of one of the country’s largest media companies. rePeAts eArLy

sAt 28tH, 2AM AnD eArLy

Mon 30tH, 5AM. [r] 9:00 Masterpiece Mystery!: “Foyle’s War, Series VI: The Hide” Can Foyle save a young man from execution? rePeAts eArLy sAt 28tH,

2:30AM. [r]

10:30 PREmIERE In the Life the acclaimed LgBt newsmagazine. rePeAts

eArLy sun 29tH, 5:10AM.


FrI 27tH, 1:30PM.

4/27 EARLY fRIDAY Am 12:00 Tavis Smiley rePeAts

FrI 27tH, 1PM. 12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Nature see WeD 25tH,

8PM. rePeAts sAt 28tH, 5PM

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3:00 America Revealed see WeD 25tH, 10PM. [r]

4:00 Independent Lens see sun 22nD, 11:30PM. [r]

27 fRIDAY 5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider. 6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Washington Week rePeAts sAt 28tH, 9AM. 8:30 PREmIERE Need to Know With scott simon,

Maria Hinojosa, ray suarez, and Jeff greenfield. rePeAts

sAt 28tH, 9:30AM.

9:00 PREmIERE Art in the Twenty-First Century: “History” Artists glenn Ligon and Marina Abramovic. rePeAts sun 29tH, 12:30PM. 10:00 PREmIERE Front Row Center Veteran artists and today’s top musicians in concert in new york. rePeAts sun 29tH, 1:30PM.


Mon 30tH, 1:30PM.


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12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Theater Talk 1:30 NYC-ARTS see tHu 26tH,

8PM. rePeAts sun 29tH, 12PM.

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2:00 Treasures of New York see tHu 26tH, 8:30PM.

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2:30 Masterpiece Mystery! see tHu 26tH, 9PM. [r]

4:00 Secrets of the Dead: “Escape from Auschwitz” [r] H

5:00 Antiques Roadshow see Mon 23rD, 9PM. [r]

28 SATURDAY

6:00 Mike Colameco’s Real Food 6:30 Lidia’s Italy In America 7:00 The This Old House Hour 8:00 Keeping Up Appearances [r]

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9:00 PREmIERE Reel 13 Classics: “The Great Train Robbery” (1979) Michael Crichton directs this film that chronicles the first robbery of a moving train in 1855. rePeAts eArLy

sun 29tH, 12:35AM.

10:55 PREmIERE Reel 13 Indies: “In the Weeds” (2000) Dark comedy set at a nyC restaurant. rePeAts

eArLy sun 29tH, 2:30AM.


sun 29tH, 4:05AM. [r]

12:35 Reel 13 Classics see sAt 28tH, 9PM. [r]

2:30 Reel 13 Indies see sAt 28tH, 10:55PM. [r]

4:05 Reel 13 Shorts see sun 29tH, 12:30AM. [r]

4:10 Globe Trekker [r] IH 5:10 In the Life see tHu 26tH,

10:30PM. [r]

29 SUNDAY

6:00 PREmIERE Moyers & Company rePeAts Mon 30tH,

10PM.

7:00 NOVA: “Secrets of the Sun” see WeD 25tH, 9PM. [r]

8:00 PREmIERE Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Harvard scholar Henry Louis gates, Jr. delves into the geneal-ogy and genetics of celeb-rity guests bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link. (PArt 7 oF 10)

rePeAts eArLy tue MAy 1st,

1AM. IH

9:00 PREmIERE Masterpiece Classic: “Birdsong” Lovers torn apart by World War I. (PArt 2 oF 2) rePeAts eArLy

WeD MAy 1st, 2AM. 10:30 PREmIERE Change Begins Within In a rare reunion performance, Paul McCartney and ringo starr headline this benefit concert for the David Lynch Foundation—also featuring eddie Vedder, sheryl Crow, and an array of other stars. rePeAts eArLy tue MAy 1st,

3:30AM. [r]

4/30 EARLY mONDAY Am 12:00 PREmIERE Independent Lens: “Facing The Storm: Story of the American Bison”1:00 Nature see sAt 28tH,

5PM. [r]

2:00 The Crash of 1929:

American Experience see tue 24tH, 8PM. [r] 3:00 Frontline see tue 24tH,

9PM. [r]


30 mONDAY

5:30 BBC World News America 6:00 NJ Today With Mike schneider. 6:30 Nightly Business Report 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 PREmIERE Antiques Roadshow A Willie Mayes jersey and other Atlanta finds.9:00 Antiques Roadshow [r]

10:00 Moyers & Company see sun 29tH, 6PM. [r]

11:00 Charlie Rose

5/01 EARLY TUESDAY Am 12:00 Tavis Smiley 12:30 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 1:00 Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. see sun 29tH, 8PM. [r] IH

2:00 Masterpiece Classic see sun 29tH, 9PM. [r]

3:30 Change Begins Within see sun 29tH, 10:30PM. [r]


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6:00 Teaching Channel 7:00 John McLaughlin’s One on One7:30 Great Decisions in Foreign Policy8:00 Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:30 New Jersey Capitol Report 9:00 Washington Week [r]

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10:00 One-on-One With Steve Adubato 10:30 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly 11:00 New York NOW 11:30 To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe12:00 Richard Heffner’s Open Mind 12:30 Caucus: New Jersey 1:00 Not in Our Town: Class Actions (7tH) Finding Kalman (14tH) Teenage Witness: The Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Story (21st) DOHA Debates (28tH)

1:30 Discovering Secrets of the Vatican (7tH) Independent Lens: “Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey” [r] (14tH) 2:00 Pedro Ruiz Coming Home (21st) Frontline: “Economy Series” (28tH)

2:30 American Masters: “Harper Lee: Hey, Boo” [r] (7tH)

3:00 Intelligence Squared Debates (14tH) American Masters: “I. M. Pei: Building China Modern” [r] (21st)

4:00 Globe Trekker 5:00 Nature: “Ocean Giants” [r] (7tH, 14tH); “River of No Return”

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12:00 NYC-ARTS [r]

12:30 Great Performances: “San Francisco Symphony at 100” [r] (1st) Live From Lincoln Center: “Renée Fleming @ The Penthouse” [r] (8tH) Great Performances: “The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater” (15tH) Great Performances at the Met: “Rodelinda” [r]

(22nD) Art in the Twenty-First Century [r] (29tH)

1:30 Front Row Center [r] (29tH)

2:00 Jerusalem: Center of the World (8tH)

2:30 Gefilte Fish Chronicles (1st) The Reconstruction of Asa Carter (15tH) Fannie’s Last Supper (29tH)

3:30 Essential Pepin (eXCePt 8tH)

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