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VOLUME 19 | ISSUE 6 JUNE 2017 DRAMA RETURNS with three neW Masterpiece series! Prime Suspect: Tennison Grantchester Season 3 My Mother and Other Strangers JUNE 2017 From the Chief Executive Officer VOLUME 19 | ISSUE 6 We are gearing up for a busy summer at Our Stand for WHRO campaign is in full A publication of WHRO Public Media for Eastern Virginia. WHRO. This month, we launched a website swing, and I have enjoyed hearing from We appreciate the support of all of our members, focused around The Vietnam War, a new many of you about why you value our and thank each and every one of you! documentary from Ken Burns that will air programs and community services. As we in September. Six years in the making, this have developed this campaign, I’ve had the WHRO Public Media maintains an open meeting policy for new film series tells the epic story of the war opportunity to reflect on the work we do our Board of Directors and Community Advisory Boards. Members of the public are welcome to attend and observe as it has never before been told on film. One across Eastern Virginia and how critical you these meetings. To find out when and where these meetings important role of the website is honoring are to our mission. Members like you make are held, consult the Corporate section of our website, local Vietnam Veterans who gave their lives WHRO the great public media station that whro.org, or call 757.889.9420. in service of our country. We share the it is. I hope you will call in or donate online stories of several veterans from Virginia— during our June television pledge drive. Your PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Bert Schmidt 757.889.9410 photos and stories that you helped us find support makes all that we do possible. through our Wall of Faces initiative. We also CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER provide details of three events coming up Lastly, I should mention the exciting lineup Phillip Perdue 757.889.9115 this summer that will include a preview of of television programs we have this month. CHIEF MARKETING & BUSINESS OFFICER the documentary along with fun, engaging During our pledge drive, we will be showing Sally McConnell 757.889.9107 activities. I hope you will join us for these! exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from Learn more at whro.org/vietnamwar Antiques Roadshow’s visit to Virginia Beach VICE PRESIDENT OF CONTENT last summer. We also have two new dramas Heather Mazzoni 757.889.9396 The WHRO Education team will also be quite premiering this month from Masterpiece DIRECTOR, CORPORATE SUPPORT busy this summer between Literacy and as well as the return of the popular crime Diane Rogic 757.724.4423 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, drama Grantchester. Learn more about and Math) presentations at schools these exciting shows on the next page. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Dwight Davis, Chuck Doud, Laura Dresen, Belinda Elliott, throughout the region and various summer Heather Mazzoni, Sally McConnell, Nancy Rogan, and Joy Yoo camps where students will learn new skills Again, thank you for all the ways you show in reading or coding. Speaking of local your support. I am truly grateful. I hope you MANAGING EDITOR students, we hosted two fun competitions enjoy the start to your summer! Belinda Elliott 757.889.9339 recently with a huge number of participants. DESIGNER Our Great Computer Challenge drew 161 Bert Schmidt Michael Watts 757.889.9345 teams of local students who competed in a variety of categories. We also just wrapped VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES MANAGER Sharman Goode-Hurd 757.889.9379 up our PBS Kids Writers Contest which received 450 entries. Twelve winners were AUDIENCE SERVICES 757.889.9499 selected to read their stories on WHRO TV. President You can find a list of the winners from that & Chief Executive Officer Dimensions (ISSN 1047-5532. Publication No. 190-200. Copyright 2004) is published monthly by the Hampton competition on page 10. Congratulations to Roads Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc., all of these talented students! a non-profit corporation, licensee of WHRO TV15, Public Television, and WHRV 89.5 FM / WHRO 90.3 FM, Public Radio. Distributed to all members of WHRO. DIMENSIONS 5200 Hampton Blvd, Norfolk, VA 23508 PHONE Southside 757.889.9400; Peninsula 757.881.9476; Williamsburg 757.903.2302 FAX 757.489.0007 E-MAIL [email protected] WEB www.whro.org Periodicals postage is paid at Norfolk, VA. POSTMASTER Send address changes to DIMENSIONS, c/o WHRO, 5200 Hampton Blvd., Norfolk, VA 23508 Locally owned by 19 regional school systems, Inside This Issue WHRO is a public service institution of education, culture and citizenship utilizing its communication resources to From the CEO Radio Highlights serve and interact throughout Eastern Virginia. 2 9 3 On the Cover 11 WHRO Matinée The Veterans Project @WHRO 5 , 7 TV Highlights 12 On the Cover Masterpiece Offers Thrilling Summer of Drama The summer is heating up with two new dramas on Masterpiece, and the return of an old favorite. Thorne) stars as the young Jane. Set in 1973 amid the sounds of the pop tunes of the day, Jane gets a crash course in the gritty realities of police work while trying to make it in the sexist culture of the force. When a young prostitute is murdered, the baffling case requires an all-hands-on-deck investigation, and Jane gets her big break. She also becomes exposed to the forces that will mold her into the hard-driving character that audiences came to know in Prime Suspect. Catch the three riveting 90-minute episodes of this Grantchester, new series on Sundays at 10 p.m. starting June 25. Season 3 Grantchester, a popular period drama featuring the improbable crime-solving duo James Norton (Happy Valley) and Robson Green (Reckless), returns for a third season. Set in England in the early 1950s, Norton stars as Sidney Chambers, a handsome, jazz-loving vicar in the sleepy village of Grantchester. He teams up with Inspector Geordie Keating, played by Green, to solve murders. Although Sidney lives the life of a clergyman, sometimes he can’t My Mother and help but fall into more worldly habits as he tirelessly searches for justice, spiritual fulfillment, and love. The series is based onThe Grantchester Mysteries by James Runcie. As season 2 ended, Other Strangers Sidney faced a moral dilemma: be with the woman he loves, or take the moral high road. Season 3 premieres Sunday, June 18, at 9 p.m. Another new Sunday night drama, My Mother and Other Strangers, is a World War II love story set in Northern Ireland. The five-part series follows the Coyne family as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a huge U.S. Army Air Force airfield lands in the middle of their rural parish. Hattie Morahan (Sense and Sensibility) and Aaron Staton (Mad Men) star as a village teacher and U.S. Air Force officer whose chance meeting leads to a friendship that blossoms into something deeper, creating a dangerous love triangle between her husband, Michael (Owen McDonnell), and the charming officer. The action is framed from the point of view of the Coyne’s 10-year-old son, Francis, portrayed by Michael Nevin Prime Suspect: (Game of Thrones). The series premieres Sunday, June 18, at 8 p.m. Tennison Crime fans will also want to tune in for the prequel to one of the most innovative crime series in television history, Prime Suspect, which ran for seven seasons and featured beloved crime fighter Jane Tennison, portrayed by Helen Mirren. The new series, Prime Suspect: Tennison, dials back the clock to spotlight the influences that turned the 22-year-old rookie policewoman into the savvy detective that viewers came to love. Stefanie Martini (Doctor 3 June 2017 Primetime 8:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 1 The This Old House Hour A Chef’s Life Reel South • Private Violence Globe Trekker THU Food - Delicious Science • We Are What We Eat 9 Months That Made You • The First 8 Weeks PBS NewsHour Martha Bakes America’s Test Kitchen Mexico - One Plate at a Time Sara’s Weeknight Meals The Woodwright’s Shop Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope 2 Washington Week Craftman’s Legacy Roy Orbison: Black & White Night 30 PBS Previews: The Vietnam War FRI How Sherlock Changed The World CSI On Trial PBS NewsHour Lidia’s Kitchen • Ragu Cook’s Country Pati’s Mexican Table Sara’s Weeknight Meals This Old House Richard Bangs’ Adventures 3 Sgt. Pepper’s Musical Revolution Paul Simon: The Concert In Hyde Park SAT American Epic • Out of the Many, The One Everyone Has A Place America Reframed • The Last Season Annabel Langbein P. Allen Smith’s Garden to Table Moveable Feast The Jazzy Vegetarian Sara’s Weeknight Meals Mexico - One Plate at a Time 4 Weddings of Downton Abbey Il Volo Notte Magica SUN Nature • Touching The Wild Victorian Slum House • The 1900s Global Voices • The Supreme Price Martha Bakes America’s Test Kitchen Mexico - One Plate at a Time Sara’s Weeknight Meals Ask This Old House Rick Steves’ Europe 5 Antiques Roadshow • Virginia Beach, Hour One Antiques Roadshow • Virginia Beach, Hour Two MON Is America in Retreat? Life on the Line On Story • Creed PBS NewsHour Lidia’s Kitchen Cook’s Country Pati’s Mexican Table Sara’s Weeknight Meals This Old House Richard Bangs’ Adventures 6 JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller • American Sampler TUE America Reframed • Broken Heart Land PBS NewsHour Martha Bakes • Midwest America’s Test Kitchen Mexico - One Plate at a Time Sara’s Weeknight Meals The Woodwright’s Shop Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope 7 Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries • Bad Behavior 70s Soul Superstars (My Music) WED Independent Lens • The New Black The Campaign PBS