JULY 2014 Masterpiece Mystery! Endeavour, Season 2 Plus: Poirot, Season12 A Capitol Fourth Broadway: The American Musical Spotlight on Ken Burns Shaun Evans, Jack Laskey, Roger Allam and Anton Lesser The Monthly Magazine for Members of Vegas PBS Contents LetterFROM THE GENERAL MANAGER Cover Story Sunday Evening Sleuths 6 Our “Summer of Surprises” continues this month with all-new mysteries to solve. Departments A Year of Success Message to Our Members 5 egas PBS’ fiscal year ended June 30. For the fifth quarter Letter from General Manager Tom Axtell in a row, you allowed us to exceed our revenue and member- School Media 9 ship goals without increasing the number of days on air. Pledge minutes in our primetime and daytime children’s Planned Giving 15 programming are below national averages, so thank you for Vresponding quickly and generously. Several programs debuting this Features month including Time Scanners, History Detectives Special Investigations An Evening of True Crime 8 and A Capitol Fourth are a direct result of your gifts. The end of a financial year is a time to reflect on past results and Father Brown 10 anticipate the future. For the current television season through the end Keeping Up Appearances and DCI Banks 11 of May, PBS jumped from the eighth most watched television or cable network to sixth, with nearly 90% of all U.S. television households – that’s Spotlight on Ken Burns 12 217 million people – watching over the course of a year. Locally, this Time Scanners 16 translates into almost 2,000,000 viewers a year. In our new century, “television” has thrown off the shackles of time. A Capitol Fourth 17 Most of our programs are available on your schedule via VegasPBS.org, Think Wednesday 18 home digital recorders, Roku or Apple TV, mobile phones or tablets, and even game consoles. 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Flamingo Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89121 This magazine is printed on 702.799.1010 • Fax 702.799.2806 recycled paper email: [email protected] Keep up with Vegas PBS on Facebook and Twitter VegasPBS.org Facebook.com/VegasPBS • Twitter.com/VegasPBS or TWITTER@VegasPBS Vegas PBS Source, Volume 2014 No. 7 JULY 2014 5 Cover Story Masterpiece Mystery! Endeavour, Season 2 Before Inspector Morse, there was the rookie Constable Morse, fed up with police work and ready to nip his career in the bud Sunday Evening by handing in his resignation. That is, until a murder turned up that only he could solve. Shaun Evans returns for a sec- ond season as the young Endeavour Morse, Sleuths before his signature red Jaguar but with his deductive powers already running in Sundays at 9 p.m. on high gear. Vegas PBS Channel 10 and 10.1 June 29 Trove Four months after DC Endeavour Our “Summer of Suprises” continues Morse’s brush with death, he returns to duty with Oxford City Police and is reunit- this month with all-new mysteries to solve. ed with DI Fred Thursday (Roger Allam, Parade’s End). Morse’s first case involves a John Doe who plummets to his death in what appears to be a routine suicide. When Morse discovers the man’s mysteri- ous final message, he begins to consider seemingly unrelated cases, causing Thursday to worry that Morse’s wounds may have been more in mind than body. July 6 Nocturne When an elderly man is murdered with a ceremonial dagger, Morse’s investigation leads him to an isolated and dreary school for girls. Endeavour digs into the school building’s disturbing history and learns of a series of murders that took place almost 100 years ago to the day. As the centenary approaches, Morse races to prevent the ghosts of the past from crashing into the present. July 13 Sway A woman found choked to death with a black silk stocking marks the third stran- gling in a month, putting the Oxford City Police on edge. Morse and Thursday grap- ple with their own personal travails as they work. July 20 Neverland Morse investigates the cases of a miss- ing boy, a dead journalist, and an abscon- der from an open prison, drawing him into a chain reaction of troubling events that could reveal horrors of the past. Morse and Thursday band together as their investiga- tion deepens and leads them to confront corruption on the police force and miscon- duct extending to the upper echelons of Oxford society. Roger Allam and Shaun Evans 6 VEGAS PBS SOURCE Masterpiece Mystery! Poirot, Season12 Sunday, July 27 at 9 p.m. on Vegas PBS Channel 10 and 10.1 avid Suchet (“Henry VIII,”“The Way We Live Now”) returns in his signature role as suave Belgian super sleuth Hercule Poirot in two new mysteries based on the novels by Agatha Christie. Whether he’s on holiday abroad, taking a countryside break or simply going about his business near his central London home, Poirot Dfinds himself exercising his “little grey cells” by helping police investigate crimes and murders, whether they ask for his help or not. This week’s mystery, The Big Four, plunges Poirot into a world of global espionage, set against the backdrop of the impending WWII. The public is in a panic after the shocking death of a Russian chess grandmaster. With the help of old friends Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon, Poirot must navigate international figures and intrigue to identify the culprit. Pauline Moran, Philip Jackson, David Suchet and Hugh Fraser JULY 2014 7 An Evening of True Crime Tuesday, July 22 from 8-10 p.m. on Vegas PBS Channel 10 and 10.1 Al Capone: Icon Al Capone — the quintessential self-made American man, ruthless killer or both? America’s best known gangster, he was the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era, with a leading role in the illegal activities. Just his name sparks images of pin-stripe suits and bloody violence. Despite his illegitimate occupation, Capone became a highly visible public figure. He made donations to various charitable endeavors using the money he made from his activities. To this day, Americans are fascinated by this celebrity gangster. The question is why? Repeats Sunday, July 27 at 1 p.m. History Detectives Special Investigations: Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa? Former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa went missing on July 30, 1975, never to be found. Hoffa, a hero to many working Americans, played a major role in the growth and development of the truck- ing union. But he fell afoul of the law, with allegations that the powerful pension fund was under mob control and used, among other things, to finance Vegas casinos. What exactly happened to Hoffa that day, and why? Recently declassified FBI files and interviews with people close to the story allow a detailed accounting of what likely occurred. The investigation is an exploration of Hoffa’s final days and hours and a revelatory window on power and corruption in the post-war era labor movement. Repeats Sunday, July 27 at 2 p.m. As a Special Thank-You Gift we have premiere tickets available to Australian Pink Floyd, Gino Vannelli and The Texas Tenors. Phone in or go online to reserve your seat to see these amazing performers in person, Live in Las Vegas! Al Capone (front and center) being escorted to the train in Chicago thatMichael will takeMcDonald him to U.