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Friday, May 18 at 9 p.m. on PBS William Christie conducts the work, which uses arias by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others to tell a new story featuring characters from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Enchanted Island, a world premiere work that combines Baroque music with a new, English-language libretto featuring [...]
On MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! Sundays, May 6, 13, and 20, 2012 at 9pm on PBS The struggle goes on in 21st century London as the updated team of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson battle the worst that modern criminality has to offer, including a computer-savvy arch-villain who wants to rule the world. MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! presents Sherlock, [...]
“CIRCO” AIRS THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 AT 10 PM (Check local listings) The Ponce Family’s Hardscrabble Circus Has Lived and Performed on the Back Roads of Mexico Since the 1800s. But Can Their Way of Life Survive into the 21st Century? Aaron Schock’s evocative Circo (Circus) intimately portrays the Ponce family’s Gran Circo [...]
Mondays, June 11, 2012, 9:00-11:00 and June 18-July 9, 2012, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET on PBS – Six-Hour Miniseries Reveals What Life Is Like for Members of the Royal Family – In the year of her 80th birthday, Queen Elizabeth II, the head of the world’s most famous family, granted exclusive access to the filmmakers of [...]
Based on Sebastian Faulks’ international bestseller On MASTERPIECE Classic Sundays, April 22 & 29, 2012 at 9pm ET on PBS Eddie Redmayne (My Week with Marilyn) and Clémence Poésy (Harry Potter) star as two lovers whose fiery affair precedes the firestorm of World War I, on Birdsong, adapted by screenwriter Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, [...]
Friday, May 18 at 9 p.m. on PBS William Christie conducts the work, which uses arias by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others to tell a new story featuring characters from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Enchanted Island, a world premiere work that combines Baroque music with a new, English-language libretto featuring [...]
On MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! Sundays, May 6, 13, and 20, 2012 at 9pm on PBS The struggle goes on in 21st century London as the updated team of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson battle the worst that modern criminality has to offer, including a computer-savvy arch-villain who wants to rule the world. MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! presents Sherlock, [...]
“CIRCO” AIRS THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 AT 10 PM (Check local listings) The Ponce Family’s Hardscrabble Circus Has Lived and Performed on the Back Roads of Mexico Since the 1800s. But Can Their Way of Life Survive into the 21st Century? Aaron Schock’s evocative Circo (Circus) intimately portrays the Ponce family’s Gran Circo [...]
Friday, May 18 at 9 p.m. on PBS William Christie conducts the work, which uses arias by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others to tell a new story featuring characters from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Enchanted Island, a world premiere work that combines Baroque music with a new, English-language libretto featuring [...]
“CIRCO” AIRS THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 AT 10 PM (Check local listings) The Ponce Family’s Hardscrabble Circus Has Lived and Performed on the Back Roads of Mexico Since the 1800s. But Can Their Way of Life Survive into the 21st Century? Aaron Schock’s evocative Circo (Circus) intimately portrays the Ponce family’s Gran Circo [...]
May 2012 An unprecedented exploration of the vital role played by Paris itself in the creation of the modern arts during the early twentieth century Pioneering filmmaker Perry Miller Adato’s 30-year passion culminates in the crowning achievement of her career In the early decades of the twentieth century, a storm of modernism swept through [...]
Friday, May 18 at 9 p.m. on PBS William Christie conducts the work, which uses arias by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others to tell a new story featuring characters from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Enchanted Island, a world premiere work that combines Baroque music with a new, English-language libretto featuring [...]
On MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! Sundays, May 6, 13, and 20, 2012 at 9pm on PBS The struggle goes on in 21st century London as the updated team of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson battle the worst that modern criminality has to offer, including a computer-savvy arch-villain who wants to rule the world. MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! presents Sherlock, [...]
“CIRCO” AIRS THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 AT 10 PM (Check local listings) The Ponce Family’s Hardscrabble Circus Has Lived and Performed on the Back Roads of Mexico Since the 1800s. But Can Their Way of Life Survive into the 21st Century? Aaron Schock’s evocative Circo (Circus) intimately portrays the Ponce family’s Gran Circo [...]
Mondays, June 11, 2012, 9:00-11:00 and June 18-July 9, 2012, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET on PBS – Six-Hour Miniseries Reveals What Life Is Like for Members of the Royal Family – In the year of her 80th birthday, Queen Elizabeth II, the head of the world’s most famous family, granted exclusive access to the filmmakers of [...]
May 2012 An unprecedented exploration of the vital role played by Paris itself in the creation of the modern arts during the early twentieth century Pioneering filmmaker Perry Miller Adato’s 30-year passion culminates in the crowning achievement of her career In the early decades of the twentieth century, a storm of modernism swept through [...]
Programs include SAVING THE TITANIC, THE TITANIC WITH LEN GOODMAN and NOVA’S “Why Ships Sink,” which asks if ocean travel has become any safer over the last century PBS will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history, with three new programs scheduled for April 2012: [...]
View the works and techniques of artists Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui and Catherine Opie. Airdate(s): 4/13/2012, 9:00 – 10:00 PM ET ARTF #: 601 Original Broadcast: 4/13/12 Episode Description Artists Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui and Catherine Opie bear witness, through their work, to transformation — cultural, material, and aesthetic — and actively engage communities [...]
Airing April 5, 2012 on Independent Lens. (Check local listings) Adored by people around the world, Elmo is an international icon. But few people know the inspiring story of his creator, Kevin Clash. As a kid growing up in Baltimore in the 1970s, Clash had a dream to be a puppeteer and work with [...]
Austin City Limits presents the best of contemporary R&B with John Legend and The Roots. Airdate(s): 4/14/2012, 9:00 – 10:00 PM ET Austin City Limits presents the best of contemporary R&B with John Legend and The Roots. The innovative hip-hop collective backs the Grammy-winning soul singer on a set of 70s soul covers and [...]
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