March 19th, 2010

Ed Sullivan’s Rock and Roll Classics –The 60’s presents classic full-length music performances - no plate spinners or dancing elephants - that evoke the spirit of that decade’s youth movement 7 p.m. Sunday and 9 p.m. Monday and Thursday.

My Music presents Big Band Years, a music retrospective featuring the biggest songs that got us through World War II and kick-started the baby boom with brassy legends that will take your members on a “Sentimental Journey” this Monday at 7 p.m.

What are dreams and why do we have them? NOVA joins the leading dream researchers and witnesses the extraordinary experiments they use to investigate the world of sleep Tuesday at 7 p.m.

In Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, award winning psychiatrist and bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen gives you 10 very simple steps that will help you: live longer, look younger, be thinner, and decrease your risk for Alzheimer’s disease, depression, heart disease, cancer and diabetes Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.

A stubborn iconoclast fights a lonely battle on behalf of a species nearly everyone hates on National Parks: America’s Best Idea and America’s “Last Frontier” becomes a testing ground for the future of the park idea Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Financial planner Steph Olsen shares her secrets to financial freedom and good money habits. In a three-part pledge event called Steph Olsen: The Power Of Money, Steph relays helpful information about the role money plays in everyday lives and suggests ways to harness its power Wednesday at 9:30 p.m.

The delightful, entertaining, and inspiring members of the Young@Heart Chorus, a New England senior citizens chorus, charm audiences worldwide with their renditions of songs by everyone from the Clash to Coldplay Thursday at 7 p.m. on Independent Lens.

Texas Music Extravaganza at 9 p.m. Friday includes performances from a pivotal concert in San Antonio, Texas that featured alumni of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados with Augie Meyers, Flaco Jimenez, Shawn Sahm, Jack Barber, Ernie Durawa and others.

Central Texas Gardener Spring Special on Saturday at noon features viewer favorites to get you ready for spring gardening. Host Tom Spencer and producer Linda Lehmusvirta answer some of the top viewer questions about gardening at this time of year.

March 12th, 2010

Celtic Thunder - It’s Entertainment!, filmed in Toronto, features Celtic Thunder’s five lead members as well as nine new dancers at 7 p.m. on Sunday and Wednesday.

T.A.M.I. Show - Rock’n'Roll’s First Concert Film at 7 p.m. Sunday introduced rock ‘n’ soul youth culture to America in the first concert movie of the rock era. This version features the Beach Boys’ performances that were removed following the film’s initial theatrical run. (more…)

March 9th, 2010

RSVPs are all gone for the Texas Music Extravaganza live studio event but you can still watch at home!
Tune in Saturday at 7p.m. for this exciting presentation.

March 5th, 2010

The Rounder Records 40th Anniversary Concert Sunday at 7 p.m. is a gala featuring the best and brightest stars from the Rounder roster including Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Steve Martin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Madeleine Peyroux, “Soul Queen of New Orleans” Irma Thomas, Bela Fleck, and Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas.

Leonard Cohen has been one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time whose songs have set a virtually unmatched standard in their seriousness and range. Leonard Cohen Live in London at 8:30 p.m. Sunday and 9 p.m. Tuesday features the songwriter’s most recent tour.

Join travel expert Rick Steves as he shares his extensive knowledge of European history and culture as he winds his way through southern Greece, Turkey and Croatia on Rick Steves’ Mediterranean Mosaic at Sunday at 10 p.m. (more…)

February 26th, 2010

Nature follows intrepid researchers and cameramen on Sunday at 7 p.m. as they track skunks day and night across California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Ohio to determine how they hunt, forage, mate and raise their young.

“The 39 Steps,” an adaptation of the popular John Buchan adventure novel originally popularized by Alfred Hitchcock, set on the eve of World War I. This 90-minute Masterpiece drama follows mining engineer Richard Hannay who gets caught up in a conspiracy following the death of a British spy found in his apartment at 8 p.m. Sunday.

Style icon, extravagant hostess, humanitarian, doting mother, trusted political advisor, and diplomat are all the roles we now expect in a First Lady, roles created by President James Madison’s wife, Dolley. Dolley Madison: American Experience, airing at 8 p.m. Monday, features Eve Best as Dolley and Jefferson Mays as James Madison.

Morristown: Where America Survived at 9:30 p.m. Monday revisits the “hard winter” of 1779-80, when General George Washington’s troops arrived at the densely wooded area south of Morristown to build a log hut city for their camp.

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February 19th, 2010

Nature explores Florida’s Everglades National Park, one of the last great wildlife refuges in the United States. However, as tens of thousands of giant pythons invaded, the refuge has become less of a haven and more of a killing ground. See it 7 p.m. Sunday.

Sally Hawkins appears as Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of dashing Captain Wentworth. Then chance brings them together again on Masterpiece Classic at 8 p.m. Sunday. (more…)

February 12th, 2010

The Druids are the most celebrated wolf pack in North America; new pioneers in the wilderness, they were at the heart of a massive scientific experiment to restore an entire ecosystem that began to break down without its wolves. See the intimate record of their lives on Nature at 7 p.m, Sunday.

In Jane Austen’s gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies, and forms a budding romance with the younger son on the estate at 8 p.m. Sunday on Masterpiece Classic.

A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and personal tragedy, see how the Kennedy story is unlike any other on Kennedys: American Experience at 8 p.m. Monday.

Glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica are melting at an ever-faster rate. What explains this alarming acceleration? In this high-action scientific adventure, Nova investigates the mystery of the mighty ice sheets that will affect the fate of coastlines around the world on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

In the devastating aftermath of the economic meltdown, Frontline sifts the ashes for clues about why it happened and examines critical moments when it might have gone much differently at 8 p.m. on Tuesday.

Independent Lens tells the poignant and powerful story of animals left behind during Katrina, and of the struggles of hurricane victims to reunite with their beloved pets at 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Episode Two of Faces of America explores the many journeys to becoming American that defined the “Century of Immigration” (1820s –1924) and transformed the United States into a booming industrial power at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

As America embraces the automobile, a Nebraska housewife searches for peace and inspiration in park after park, while a honeymoon couple seeks fame and adventure in the Grand Canyon on National Parks: America’s Best Idea at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters and John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin form “Them Crooked Vultures” and bust out high volume rock ‘n’ roll on Austin City Limits as at 10 p.m. Wednesday and 9 p.m. Friday.

Newsweek editor and Pulitzer prize-winning author Jon Meacham discusses the future of print journalism and more on Texas Monthly Talks at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Austin @ Issue: Energy for the Future at 7:30 p.m. Thursday features a discussion of Austin’s proposed long-range Resource and Climate Protection Plan with Austin Energy General Manager Roger Duncan and other experts and stakeholders.

Taped before a live audience at the Texas Lyceum Conference, experts on Great Debate Series: Cyber Security discuss issues of personal privacy and security of on-line information in the age of Social Networking at 8 p.m. Thursday.

With a backbone of Southern rock and country, passionate VanZant vocals, and trademark layered guitars, Lynyrd Skynyrd deliver renditions of their iconic classics on Soundstage that will blow you away at 9 p.m. Thursday.

In their debut Austin City Limits appearance, influential superstars R.E.M. take the stage in support of their latest acclaimed record, Accelerate at 7 p.m. Saturday.

February 5th, 2010

We may think we know what is beautiful and what isn’t, but in the natural world beauty can be many things—including what we might find completely repulsive. Nature shows us how the ugly can be beautiful at 7 p.m. Sunday.

How will Jane Austen, the master of happy endings, tie up the tangled affairs of her heroines Emma Woodhouse, Harriet Smith and Jane Fairfax? Find out on Masterpiece Classic “Emma” at 8 p.m. Sunday.

Texas Debate: Race for Governor at 7 p.m. Monday features the Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates. Antiques Roadshow will air at 8 p.m. following the debate.

The Bombing of Germany: American Experience is a film that examines the defining moments of the offensive that led the U.S. across a moral divide. Weaving together interviews with WWII pilots and historians, and archival footage of the bombing and its aftermath, the film at 9 p.m. Monday is a reminder of the dilemma imposed by war’s civilian casualties.

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January 29th, 2010

Thick forests, vast wetlands, deep chasms - this is a wild, inaccessible place that belongs more to myth than reality. Explore the untouched Balkan landscape Sunday at 7 p.m. on Nature and see its wild animals that have all but vanished from the rest of Europe.

A fiercely funny adaptation of Jane Austen’s delightful love story of a young woman whose attempts to play Cupid go disastrously awry on part two of “Emma” at 8 p.m. Sunday on Masterpiece Classic.

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January 22nd, 2010

Unique to North America, the bald eagle is the continent’s most recognizable aerial predator, yet Nature shows that even in the best of times it’s a surprisingly tough struggle to maintain a home and raise chicks until they can hunt on their own. See it Sunday at 7 p.m.

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