Anybody watch History Detectives on PBS?

[Duchess]

Is there death in this show? I'm sorry but I need to know before I can watch it.

[Lady Cop]

one poult is eaten by a snake . they don't make a big ordeal about it. and later an adult is killed on her nest, but they don't show it or even say what did it. i suspect a bobcat.
it really is a lovely tender program.

[Duchess]

I just watched the first clip. That's very heartwarming.

[Lady Cop]

Maggot! you have to check your PBS for this:

Give Me the Banjo
(First Aired: Nov. 04, 2011)
Steve Martin narrates the history of the banjo and American roots music; featuring Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, Taj Mahal, Béla Fleck and the Carolina Chocolate Drops


it's on here tonight at 6:30..yeehaw!


a great moment in movies---

[Lady Cop]

new tonight on PBS 9 PM eastern

1/10/12

Billy the Kid: American Experience
The true story of the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid, aka Henry McCarty, who was born in New York City's slums to impoverished, Irish immigrant parents; and was killed in 1881 New Mexico by Lincoln County sheriff Pat Garrett.




http://mockforums.net/thread-4018.html?h...ly+the+kid

[Lady Cop]

Custer’s Last Stand
The WGBH-produced American Experience presents a biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer, one of the most charismatic and contradictory American leaders of the 19^th century. The film takes you from Custer’s memorable charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept plains of the West. Premieres tonight, Tuesday, Jan. 17, at 8pm




he looks like Dickie!

[Lady Cop]

what i'm listening to tonight~

Great Performances at the Met on PBS

Anna Bolena by Gaetano Donizetti (in Italian of course, thank God for subtitles)

Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera’s greatest mad scenes in this Met premiere production by David McVicar.

[Lady Cop]

2/13/12

tonight on your PBS

Slavery by Another Name
Monday, Feb. 13, 9pm, WGBH 2
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Wall Street Journal writer Douglas A. Blackmon, the film explores the little-known story of the post-Emancipation era and the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted into the 20^th century.


i'll watch this, i love this historical stuff.

preview:

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Slavery-by-...aignId=476

[Lady Cop]

this should be funny!


2/14/12 8 PM eastern
The American Experience
Tupperware

"Modern dishes for modern living" (and they "burped," no less), sold by women at "home parties." This slice of 1950s Americana is recalled in "Tupperware!"

[Cracker]

This lid finally disappeared (I had it in harvest gold):



It is the end of an era: The last functional piece of the tupperware I inherited is now gone. I stressed about it because I wasn't ready to let it go. It is a bit weird, but I felt the same way when my yellow Fiesta pitcher broke.



I bet Maggot has some favorite kitchenware. I bet you do, too, LC.

[Lady Cop]

that Fiestaware is highly collectible isn't it?

my favorite stuff would be antique china. i love to find unusual pieces in antique shops. my Mom did the same.
she had a priceless collection of Meissen collected over a lifetime. it only comes out for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[Lady Cop]

2/24/12
PBS friday night, looks good music lovers! "MEMPHIS"


A performance of the Tony Award-winning musical "Memphis," about a white high-school dropout in 1950s Tennessee who becomes a disc jockey in order to promote the music of a black singer he's fallen for.


http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Great-Perfo...aignId=502

[Lady Cop]

TONIGHT! fuck the oscars!

Derek Jacobi was superb in 'I Claudius'.

preview:

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Masterpiece...Shop-36311


Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop," about an orphan girl (Sophie Vavasseur) whose kind grandfather (Derek Jacobi), owner of a knickknack shop, is in debt to the unsavory loan shark-solicitor Quilp (Toby Jones) due to a gambling habit.

[Lady Cop]

2/28/12
this looks really interesting, tonight on PBS. The Amish~

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/amish/

[Lady Cop]

this is not PBS, but Discovery channel. new series begins Sunday night at 8.

this BBC series is SUPERB! try to see it (and let your kids see it).

some video at link below


Producers for Discovery's new series "Frozen Planet" say they spent nearly "two and a half thousand days" in the field compiling footage for the documentary series, set to premiere Sunday night at 8 p.m..

Vanessa Berlowitz and Chadden Hunter, producers for the program said the massive undertaking was four years

"Frozen Planet," a Discovery Channel/BBC co-production, executive produced by Alastair Fothergill, takes a fresh look at Antarctica as well as its north-end counterpart, the Arctic, in seven gorgeous episodes premiering Sunday with the first two hours on Discovery. And while you may not be ready to dismiss filmdom's stars and screenplay writers as unnecessary, "Frozen Planet" makes a strong case that Nature -- captured in the wild -- can equal Hollywood for epic sweep and drama.

Comedy, too. In Sunday's second hour, male penguins by the hundreds of thousands anticipate the spring return of the females, for whose favor each male must compete by building a swankier nest than his rivals. In a delightful sequence, a painstaking penguin gathers stones one by one, only to have them filched, one after another, by a scheming neighbor whenever the hapless suitor's back is turned. These performers, with their Chaplin-esque gait and impeccable timing, would have been right at home in a 1920s two-reeler.

There's also bittersweet romance on "Frozen Planet." Nature's ultimate loner, a 1400-pound male polar bear, has lumbered across the ice all winter in search of a mate come spring. Picking up her scent from 10 miles away, he finds her, after which they share a tender interlude. Then, just two weeks later, their brief encounter ends as they are fated to part.

Plus, there are thrilling, life-or-death confrontations in the series. Three-ton elephant seals brawl over females. A pack of 25 wolves brings down a huge bison. A wide-eyed Weddell seal falls prey to hungry orca whales that, working as a team, can stir up giant waves to wash these frantic seals from the refuge of their ice floes.

And talk about "special effects"! An unprecedented time-lapse shot underwater records the growth of a brinicle -- an ice stalactite progressing downward toward the seabed -- killing everything its frozen plume touches. This otherworldly sight is as eerie and magical as a CGI effect from a sci-fi film. But it's real.

"That's the thing about the natural world: It gives you amazing natural drama," says Berlowitz, "Frozen Planet" series producer, "It looks like it's scripted, but we don't fake anything. Everything that we film is a complete portrayal of reality. And the audience thinks, `Wow, they did that without trained animals!"'

Berlowitz has produced and directed a score of BBC documentaries, including two episodes of "Planet Earth," and, like Fothergill, she logged time at both poles for "Frozen Planet." She lived aboard a Royal Naval icebreaker for four months filming penguins and whales, and, in the Arctic, spent three weeks filming female polar bears and their cubs while she was five months pregnant.

Through it all, the filmmakers served as passive observers. But they took a cinematic approach to planning multi-angle coverage of action they hoped would unfold.

"We were very keen to storyboard the sequences beforehand," says Fothergill. "Then, when we got on location, we would sit down and say, `Have we got all the angles? Let's work it all out."'

Adds Berlowitz, "We approached these holy-grail sequences thinking, `What will it take?"'

The many up-close-and-personal scenes they bagged say as much about "Frozen Planet" as the vast scope of the enterprise, which can be expressed in remarkable statistics: four years in production; 38 camera persons; combined number of days in the field: 2,356; 1 ¹⁄₂ years at sea; hours trapped in blizzards: 840.

"The weather is often rubbish," Fothergill acknowledges. But physical discomfort isn't the real problem. "Everybody thinks it's all about storms and cold -- but it's actually about `gray light,' when the ice looks really, really ugly. You can wait for weeks, and all the while the polar bear is doing his stuff, but you have to say, `Don't shoot it. Wait until the light is good."'

This Sunday's episodes, "The Ends of the Earth" and "Spring," will be followed in subsequent weeks by "Summer" and "Winter." (Yes, the polar regions have seasons -- in fact, greater seasonal changes than anywhere else on our planet, as the series' narrator, Alec Baldwin, reminds us.)

video at link
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/201...z1pP9xV5x1

[Lady Cop]

tomorrow on PBS


The history of the American whaling industry from its 17^th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.

Tuesday
3/20/12 8:00 PM

preview
http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-America...aignId=566

[Maggot]

How come my antiques roadshow is not on Mondays anymore!!!

[Maggot]

Oh wait..........I was just impatient. slow down dammit!

[Donovan]

I love the PBS stuff and I found by accident my local station has three digital options when I got off the cable tit. HD is good, I also am addicted to Netflix for all the discovery type shows they just added. All the survivor style shows like Bear Grylls etc, bunch of great crypto/docu/para/spooky stuff on there. Most of the great PBS series can also be found on Netflix, including the British stuff, the Americana, and most of the historical documentary stuff.

[Maggot]

It seems that many Chinese and Russian people are trying to buy back old paintings and sculptures, it looks like a really hot market for old stuff from china and india. Asia is a big market and many of the old things brought back from WWII by soldiers are bringing some damn good prices. Many old asian things can be found at yard sales today and spring is almost here.