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PBS Fall Season Previews 2012
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Falls Season Sizzle 2012 | Preview | PBS
by PBS 5,896 views
From the Faraway to the Everyday... Join PBS for a lineup full of drama this fall season.
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Coming This Fall to PBS KIDS | PBS
by PBS 185,201 views
Get ready for some grrr-ific times with Daniel Tiger and his friends Miss Elaina and Prince Wednesday in Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood coming to PBS KIDS this fall. Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is an exciting new animated multi-platform series for children ages 2-4. For more information on Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, go to http://pbskids.org/daniel
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Sneak Peek of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood -- Coming this fall | PBS KIDS
by PBS 211,288 views
Daniel Tiger, PBS KIDS' newest neighbor, is going to have a birthday party. Daniel, Mom Tiger and his friends, O the Owl and Katerina Kittycat visit a bakery to pick out his birthday cake. Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is an exciting new animated multi-platform series for children ages 2-4 launching on PBS KIDS this fall. For more information on Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, go to http://pbskids.org/daniel
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PBS -- Your Trusted News Source | Election 2012 | PBS
by PBS 1,004 views
Join PBS this election year for news programs trusted by more voters than any other television news source.
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"Death and the Civil War" Extended Promo | American Experience | PBS
by PBS 8,094 views
With the coming of the Civil War, and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the experience of the American people as it never had before -- permanently altering the character of the republic and the psyche of the American people. Contending with death on an unprecedented scale posed challenges for which there were no ready answers when the war began. Americans worked to improvise new solutions, new institutions, and new ways of coping with death on an unimaginable scale. Tune-in Tuesday, September 18th 8/7c for the broadcast premiere of "Death and the Civil War" on American Experience http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/death/
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Call the Midwife | Preview | Premieres Sept. 30 on PBS
by PBS 20,716 views
This moving, intimate, funny and true-to-life series, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, tells colorful stories of midwifery and families in London's East End in the 1950s. Jenny Lee, a young woman raised in the wealthy English countryside, has chosen to become a nurse and now, as a newly qualified midwife, has gone to work in the poorest area of the city. Attached to an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House, Jenny is part of a team of women who minister to expectant mothers, many of whom give birth at home in appalling conditions. The drama follows Jenny as she meets her patients and learns to love the people who live in the East End.
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide | Coming October 1 & 2
by PBS 15,201 views
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/half-the-sky/
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide - Premiering October 1-2, 2012
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a landmark transmedia project featuring a four-hour PBS primetime national and international broadcast event, a Facebook-hosted social action game, mobile games, two interactive websites, educational video modules with companion text, and an impact assesment plan all inspired by Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, the widely acclaimed book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
The series follows Kristof, WuDunn, and six celebrity activists including Diane Lane, America Ferrera, Olivia Wilde, and Nicole Kidman as they travel to nine countries and meet inspiring, courageous individuals. Across the globe oppression is being confronted, and real meaningful solutions are being fashioned through health care, education, and economic empowerment for women and girls. Embedded in the linked problems of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality — which still needlessly claims one woman every 90 seconds — is the single most vital opportunity of our time — and all over the world, women are seizing it.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide website
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/half-the-sky/
Half the Sky movement website
http://www.halftheskymovement.org/
Women and Girls Lead
http://womenandgirlslead.org/
Learn more about "Independent Lens":
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens
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Independent Lens | Diane Lane on Maternal Mortality | Video Extra
by PBS 5,523 views
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/half-the-sky/ Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide - Premiering October 1-2, 2012
Diane Lane reflects on her experiences filming with Half the Sky in Somaliland, where she got a first-hand look at the challenges and solutions surrounding maternal mortality at the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital.
About the Series
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a landmark transmedia project featuring a four-hour PBS primetime national and international broadcast event, a Facebook-hosted social action game, mobile games, two interactive websites, educational video modules with companion text, and an impact assesment plan all inspired by Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, the widely acclaimed book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
The series follows Kristof, WuDunn, and six celebrity activists including Diane Lane, America Ferrera, Olivia Wilde, and Nicole Kidman as they travel to nine countries and meet inspiring, courageous individuals. Across the globe oppression is being confronted, and real meaningful solutions are being fashioned through health care, education, and economic empowerment for women and girls. Embedded in the linked problems of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality — which still needlessly claims one woman every 90 seconds — is the single most vital opportunity of our time — and all over the world, women are seizing it.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide website
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/half-the-sky/
Half the Sky movement website
http://www.halftheskymovement.org/
Women and Girls Lead
http://womenandgirlslead.org/
Learn more about "Independent Lens":
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens
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Martha Stewart's Cooking School | Preview | PBS
by PBS 15,482 views
Martha Stewart conducts a culinary master class for American home cooks each week. The teaching series, inspired by her best-selling book Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook, debuts in October on PBS stations. In each 30-minute episode, Martha demonstrates classic cooking techniques and basics. Using her signature step-by-step, how-to teaching process, she illustrates the building blocks of recipes everyone should know (from roasting to poaching to braising and blanching).
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NOVA scienceNOW | Preview | PBS
by PBS 881 views
David Pogue, popular technology reporter for The New York Times, is the new host of the critically acclaimed science magazine series, beginning with the launch of Season 6 in October 2012. Featuring four stories in each themed episode, the new season again tackles an array of thought-provoking topics.
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NATURE "Magic of the Snowy Owl" | Preview | PBS
by PBS 29,094 views
Watch the full-length episode at http://video.pbs.org/video/2291436455
NATURE takes an intimate look at the snowy owl, a bird made popular by Harry Potter's faithful companion, Hedwig. "Snowies" stand out for their magical beauty, intelligence and charm. Viewers discover that these strikingly beautiful Arctic owls have a range of skills far more impressive than those required of magical messengers.
Premieres Wednesday, October 24, 2012 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET -
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THE DUST BOWL: A Film By Ken Burns | Premieres Sun., Nov. 18th | PBS
by PBS 66,078 views
Witness the catastrophic dust storms, incredible human suffering and equally incredible stories of human perseverance as Ken Burns chronicles our country's worst man-made ecological disaster. THE DUST BOWL premieres Sunday, November 18 at 8/7c on PBS.
