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Poldark Season 4 on MASTERPIECE Trusted. Valued. Essential. OCTOBER 2018 Poldark Season 4 ON MASTERPIECE Vegas PBS A Message from the Management Team General Manager General Manager Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS Educational Media Services Director Niki Bates Production Services Director Kareem Hatcher Communications and Brand Management Director Shauna Lemieux Business Manager Brandon Merrill Content Director Exploring Mental Health Cyndy Robbins Workforce Training & Economic Development Director Debra Solt othing is more central to public television than education. Decades of Corporate Partnerships Director research confirms that the high-quality educational television, internet, Bruce Spotleson classroom and workshop content created by PBS KIDS helps children Engineering, IT and Emergency Response Director build critical literacy, math and social-emotional skills that help them John Turner succeed in school and in life. Beyond children, what's truly unique about Southern Nevada Public Television Board of Directors Npublic service media is its commitment to provide inspiring lifelong learning for adults, Executive Director Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS with topics as diverse as cooking, history, science, travel, politics, art, architecture and President personal health. Never shying away from difficult subjects or conversations,Vegas PBS Nancy Brune, Guinn Center for Policy Priorities will present several programs this month that examine mental health and brain health Vice President issues - both nationally and locally. Thomas Warden, The Howard Hughes Corporation The critically acclaimed documentary God Knows Where I Am follows the story of Secretary a well-educated New Hampshire mother who battled severe bipolar disorder and home- Clark Dumont, M.S., APR, Dumont Communications, LLC lessness until her heartbreaking death. Immediately after the film, a panel discussion Treasurer Geraldine Tomich, Marquis Aurbach Coffing examines how law enforcement, the medical establishment and the justice system treat Chair, Community Council the mentally ill. Thomas Gallagher, TreVista Group, LLC Following that national discussion, Vegas PBS explores mental health issues in Chair, Planned Giving Council Southern Nevada with two back-to-back episodes from our new public affairs show, Geraldine Tomich, Marquis Aurbach Coffing Nevada Week: Mental Health Early Intervention and Nevada Week: Medicaid CCSD Liaison to SNPT Board Changes to Mental Health. Treating these patients, building an adequate social safety Carolyn Edwards, Clark County School District Trustee net and funding care for the uninsured is a major under-reported public health topic. Board Members We also mark one year since the tragic events of One October with rebroadcasts of Vince Alberta, University Nevada Las Vegas two local specials that celebrate our medical and first responders and addresses the Linda Ammons, Community Volunteer ongoing need for accessible mental health resources and assistance for those experienc- Tracy Bower, NNSS,Managed and operated by Mission Support and Test Services ing emotional and financial distress from this civic trauma. #VegasStrong: The Road Cheryl (Cheri) Colbus, US Bank Ahead, #VegasStrong: Mental Health and Money, and extended "web extra" conversa- Rachelle Crupi, Western Alliance Bank tions with mental health experts will have multiple airings throughout the month and Bill Curran, Ballard Spahr, LLP are available on demand on VegasPBS.org. Mo Denis, Nevada State Senator Three additional specials will investigate America's opioid epidemic and examine the Jason Gastwirth, Caesars Entertainment Stephen Greathouse, Las Vegas Hotel & Gaming Industry, retired science behind how these drugs affect the brain to cause addiction. You can read more Dema Guinn, Community Volunteer about NOVA: Addiction, FRONTLINE: Chasing Heroin, Understanding the Opioid Lori Lea, AECIndustryPro.com Epidemic and other mental health specials airing this month on page 17. Nora Luna, Nathan Adelson Hospice Our exploration of brain science will continue next month as we debut a new Vegas Marydean Martin, Marydean & Associates PBS documentary that chronicles the life of Lou Ruvo, an influential member of the Steve Seroka, Las Vegas City Councilman Las Vegas hospitality industry. Power of Love tells the story of Lou's diagnosis with Contact Vegas PBS with comments and suggestions: Alzheimer's disease and his subsequent treatment journey that would eventually lead to Vegas PBS & Southern Nevada Public Television the creation of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health — one of the 3050 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89121 702.799.1010 • Fax 702.799.2806 most advanced brain research and treatment facilities in the country. Our two organi- VegasPBS.org • email: [email protected] zations are joining forces to present a special preview screening event on November 1. Vegas PBS Source, Volume No. 10, 2018 Please see page 20 for event and ticket details. We hope you will join us. Anton Tielemans, Vegas PBS Source Art Director From the self-affirming words for children of Fred Rogers and Daniel Tiger, to cele- bration of hopeful scientific breakthroughs at the Lou Ruvo Center, your membership support allows Vegas PBS to produce and air programs that help tell the story of men- tal illness, substance abuse, degenerative brain disease, and support for victims of trau- ma. We thank you for watching, engaging with policy makers, and continuing to help Vegas PBS lead an informed community dialogue on these topics. Tom Axtell This magazine is printed on recycled paper OCTOBER 2018 5 October 2018 Contents Cover Story 8 Fall into Fabulous Drama This month, we have all-new seasons of two of our most popular dramas, some intriguing new miniseries, along with our returning on-going series. Departments 5 Message to Our Members Letter from General Manager Tom Axtell 14 Upcoming Member Events 22 A Message from the Content Director Features 10 Science & Nature Think Wednesday 12 Documental Thought-Provoking Documentaries 13 Arts The Great American Read, Great Performances: A Grammy Salute to Music Legends 2018 and more! 8 15 History Eugenics Crusade: American Experience, Native America and more! 15 Planned Giving Free Seminar 17 Health Examining Mental Health Issues 19 How-To Best of Sewing with Nancy 32 Best of Vegas PBS 33 #VegasStrong Specials 34 Downton Abbey Marathon 35 Local Stories of Service 12 13 37 Vegas PBS Rewind/Worldview/Jackpot! Program Menu 23 Weekdays/Children’s Lineup 24 Primetime Programming 32 Weekend Daytime Programming 36 Vegas PBS Create Programming 36 Vegas PBS Channels 38 Vegas PBS Sponsors 15 34 OCTOBER 2018 7 COVER STORY the plucky widowed mother, Louisa Durrell; Josh O'Connor as her eldest son, Lawrence, Fall into who is destined to become a famous novelist; Callum Woodhouse as the hapless sportsman, Fabulous Leslie; Daisy Waterstone as the lovelorn teen, Margo; and Milo Parker as Gerald. The bohemian Durrells fit right in with the light- Drama hearted Greeks — except when they disas- trously don’t. Throughout the Month Poldark Season 4 on Masterpiece at 9 p.m. beginning September 30 The many fans of this lush, swashbuckling This month, we have all-new seasons of drama have been waiting anxiously for the new two of our most popular dramas, some season to begin! It's 1796, and to defend intriguing new miniseries, along with Cornwall and those he loves from an empow- our returning on-going series. This is ered George, Ross Poldark must play the polit- going to be an exciting month for the ical game on a journey that takes him to the best that television has to offer! nation's capital and into new perils. When last SUNDAY NIGHTS we saw Ross in Season 3, his marriage was on Call the Midwife Season 4 the rocks and he had his sights set on a new at 7 p.m. role in Westminster.The new season opens as We are so looking forward to the new the Prime Minister calls an election and Season 8 of this beloved series next spring, uncertainty grips the country. Ross watches but that seems so far away! In the meantime, Cornwall suffer under the power of Truro’s we can enjoy some time with the nuns and MP, George Warleggan, while Demelza nurses of Nonnatus House with an encore remains caught between Ross and a lovesick viewing of Season 4. The season begins in Hugh. The Enyses contemplate having a child 1960, on the cusp of much change in and Elizabeth seeks the same to secure her London’s East End. A new decade dawns, and marriage. Morwenna uses Osborne’s affair with it come different and exciting challenges. with her sister Rowella to keep the reverend’s Can the nuns and midwives hold onto their advances at bay. Sam and Drake are blamed traditional values in a rapidly changing for a murder, and Ross finds himself powerless world? Important social issues are explored, to save his brothers-in-law. including child neglect, mental health, homo- My Mother and Other sexuality and a baby mix-up in the Maternity Strangers on Masterpiece Home. on September 30 and October 7 The Durrells in Corfu at 10 p.m. Season 3 on Masterpiece Set in Northern Ireland during World War at 8 p.m. beginning September 30 II, the drama follows the fortunes of the Coyne family and their neighbors as they This delightful series features the harried struggle to maintain a normal life after a huge widowed mother of a brood of recalcitrant United States airfield, with 4,000 service men children. Louisa moves the floundering family and women, lands in the middle of their rural from England to Corfu in the mid 1930s to parish. recharge their lives — hers included. Hailed Hattie Morahan (Sense and Sensibility) by The Wall Street Journal as “an island of stars as Englishwoman Rose Coyne, raising charm,” the drama returns for a third season her daughters Emma and Kate, and son of eccentric family adventures on a Greek isle Francis in Northern Ireland during World War in the 1930s. Based on the memoirs of Gerald II. Owen McDonnell (An Klondike) is her lov- Durrell, the animal-loving youngest member ing husband Michael, a Northern Irishman of the clan, the series stars Keeley Hawes as who realizes he never lived up to her dreams.
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