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3 - CEO Message 6 - TV Listings 18 - Partner Profile 4 - Cover Story 10 - Evening Grid 17 - Daytime Grid PROGRAM GUIDE APRIL 2019 VOL. 38 NO. 4 PAGE 4PAGE 4 Courtesy of MASTERPIECE/PBSCourtesy of | APRIL 2019 Last month, PBS Hawai‘i launched GET CAUGHT READING, a statewide multimedia initiative to share the love of reading with our local community. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the making of three of our GET CAUGHT READING videos, showing the ways people get caught reading every day. The full videos air between our programs and can also be watched anytime at On the set, our young performer gets prepped for her pbshawaii.org/get-caught-reading broadcast debut! Our PBS Hawai‘i crew sets up to tape one of our Our GET CAUGHT READING performers got caught GET CAUGHT READING videos. warming up with a few shakas for the camera. ON THE COVER: The lead cast of Les Misérables on MASTERPIECE: Dominic West as Jean Valjean, Lily Collins as Fantine and David Oyelowo as Javert. See pages 4-5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MANAGEMENT Chair Vice Chair President and CEO Senior Vice President/CFO Jason Fujimoto Joanne Grimes Leslie Wilcox Karen Yamamoto Secretary Treasurer Vice President, Content Vice President, Advancement Bettina Mehnert Kent Tsukamoto Chuck Parker Christina Sumida Muriel Anderson Joy Miura Koerte Vice President, Communications Director, Learning Initiatives Susan Bendon Kamani Kuala‘au Jody Shiroma Robert Pennybacker Jodi Endo Chai Mary Ann Manahan James E. Duffy Jr. Aaron Salā Chief Engineer Matthew Emerson Julie Shimonishi John Nakahira Jake Fergus Ka‘iulani Sodaro Jason Haruki Candy Suiso Noelani Kalipi Bruce Voss PROGRAM GUIDE Ian Kitajima Editor and Chief Programmer Graphic Artist John Kovacich Randall Choo pbshawaii.org 2 CEO MESSAGE A childhood discovery Leslie Wilcox PBS Hawai‘i and a journey of 1500 pages President and CEO I was a barefoot third-grader, playing with hula European literature, nearly 1,500 pages. On top of hoops in a friend’s garage in Āina Haina, when I that, I needed to have a second book handy, the spied a stack of old comic books. dictionary. I still remember the first of many words That was my unlikely introduction to Les Misérables. I looked up: morass. The foreign words were on Reading the novel sometimes the cover of a Classics felt like slogging through a Illustrated comic book, where morass. Author Victor Hugo a man carrying another was would digress into long, detailed running from pursuers in a histories – of the Battle of rat-infested tunnel. Waterloo, the construction of My playmate and I dropped Paris sewers and more. Those our hoops and hunched over parts, I skimmed. that top book in the stack. However, I was forever held The drawings were dramatic by the main story line which – and even more striking famously starts with Jean Valjean were the words, painting the sent to prison for stealing bread story of a man who was both to feed his widowed sister’s hero and crook, good and seven children. The story bad, trusted and untrustworthy, enveloped me in a world in long-suffering and impatient, which I was often trying to a man who hated and loved. decipher the boundaries of right We’d found a magic comic and wrong, good and evil, war book that was not the usual and peace, love and hate. kid stuff of bright, positive Later, when I covered poverty absolutes. as a journalist, I would return to Even though the story was Les Misérables to re-read this set far away and long ago, it stinging quote: “There is always resonated deeply. It spoke to more misery among the lower the confusing contradictions I’d already experienced classes than there is humanity in the higher.” in my young life – a father who promised to be home Since childhood, I’ve always been eager to see at night but rarely was; an admired teen scholar/ new adaptations of Les Misérables, on stage and athlete who kicked his dog when he thought no one screen. I hope you’ll join me in spirit, on the could see; and the much-feared school bully who community sofa, to view this latest PBS television was understanding and even gracious when I presentation. Our new Vice President of accidentally hit him in the face with a kickball. Communications, Jody Shiroma, has details on A couple of years later, during summer vacation, the next pages. I wanted more than the comic book version of Les Misérables. As it turned out (just my luck!), Aloha nui, the hardcover novel is one of the longest books in 3 | APRIL 2019 COVER STORY A MODERN TWIST ON A 19TH-CENTURY CLASSIC By Jody Shiroma z PBS Hawai‘i A stolen loaf of bread sets off a series of events that creates the unforgettable story line for the well-known Victor Hugo 19th-century classic, Les Misérables. Courtesy of Robert Viglasky / Lookout Point DAVID OYELOWO AS JAVERT DOMINIC WEST AS JEAN VALJEAN pbshawaii.org 4 Courtesy of BBC - Photographer: Robert Viglasky The story unfolds Andrew Davies goes with Jean Valjean, back to the original a worn-out convict novel and digs deep who cannot seem to into the many layers break free from his of Hugo’s story, life of crime, until taking viewers on a a simple act of roller coaster ride kindness changes his LILY COLLINS AS FANTINE through Jean Valjean life for the better as and Javert’s cat-and- he chooses to “pay it mouse relationship forward” by committing to save a young girl set against the epic backdrop of France at a from a life of poverty. time of civil unrest. While you have probably heard of Les Misérables, Les Misérables includes some of the most or have seen the musical or the film of the famous characters in European literature, and musical, the dramatic interpretation of this touches upon many of the same social problems classic novel on MASTERPIECE takes a new that we face today – the struggle of poverty, twist. Viewers tuning into the series will see the crime and punishment, good vs. evil, social same story told differently, in a modern take injustice and wrong vs. right. on this French classic, as the team behind this Director Tom Shankland says: “Working with television adaptation is ignoring the famous this incredible cast on Andrew Davies’ fantastic songs and instead embracing speaking-only adaptation of Les Misérables, really is a dream roles in an ethnically diverse cast sporting come true. We want to capture the thrilling British accents in a French setting. The intent spirit of passion and protest in Victor Hugo’s is to add a contemporary feel to the 150-year- novel and make it feel more relevant than ever. old story. The conviction, intensity and authenticity that The series features an esteemed ensemble all of these actors bring to their work is going of actors to bring the story to life. It stars to be a massive part of making this story speak Dominic West in the iconic role of ex-convict to audiences everywhere.” Jean Valjean, David Oyelowo as his nemesis Javert and Lily Collins as the destitute Fantine as key players in the amazing cast. z This television adaptation of Les Misérables brings the renowned classic by Victor Hugo Les Misérables on MASTERPIECE vibrantly to life through colorful and fetching Sundays at 8:00 pm characters. Multi award-winning screenwriter April 14 - May 19, 2019 on PBS Hawai‘i 5 | APRIL 2019 PRIMETIME & WEEKEND LISTING SCHEDULE PBS Hawai‘i is on the air seven days a week from 5:00 am to midnight. Viewers with cable service also have access to overnight programming which is indicated by Cable Only After Midnight. Viewers with cable service and high-definition (HD) TVs may watch PBS Hawai‘i in high-definition on Spectrum Channel 1010 or Hawaiian Telcom Channel 1011. 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