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January 2021 EXCLUSIVE MEMBER PROGRAM GUIDE EXCLUSIVE MEMBER PROGRAM GUIDE January 2021 CET & CETHD ThinkTV16 & ThinkTV16HD ThinkTV14 & ThinkTV14HD www.CETconnect.org www.thinktv.org Letter From Our President & CEO Page 2 Elizabeth is Missing Page 5 All Creatures Great and Small Page 7 American Masters: How it Feels to be Free Page 8 At Home with Your Public Media Station Page 9 NOVA: Forgotten Genius Page 10 JAN 2021 Connect-Fnl.indd 1 12/1/20 10:52 AM Welcome Dear Member, Happy New Year! As we continue to experience the pandemic in our communities, we hope and trust that 2021 will bring health, normalcy and new opportunities to you and your families. As we look back at 2020 and the adversity the pandemic created, we are reminded that it also created opportunities for us to rise to the occasion. It taught us to embrace technology, think outside the box to create fresh content and do more to serve our educators and students. ThinkTV and CET are grateful for the strong community support we received in 2020. Your support allows us to produce local arts and culture programs while pursuing educational initiatives that better serve our communities. We couldn’t do our work without you, so thank you. Of course the great work doesn’t stop. As I write, we are working on a documentary about Ohio women during the Suffrage movement; we are working on the second part of The Dayton Arcade: Waking the Giant; we continue to work with our art and performance partners to help provide a stage for their works; we continue our work on our weekly arts and cultural shows and we will begin working on projects around diversity, racism and inclusion. In education, our work continues to create content that teachers and parents can use in the classroom and at home. We have tripled our professional development workshops for our teachers and look forward to being a resource to help guide them through remote teaching in whatever form that takes. CET and ThinkTV are proud to be much more than just great public television stations. And we’re also proud of the great programming coming your way this year. This month kicks off multiple new shows from MASTERPIECE including a reboot of the classic All Creatures Great and Small, a late-in-life mystery called Elizabeth is Missing and Miss Scarlet and the Duke. We will also be featuring the stories of America told through Independent Lens, POV, NOVA, PBS American Portrait and more. We are especially excited to be airing a two-hour NOVA special on Percy Julian, the African-American scientist, industrialist, humanitarian, civil rights pioneer and self-made millionaire, called Forgotten Genius. There are many great shows and programs to explore on-air and online as we kick of 2021, all possible thanks to your support. Kitty Lensman President & CEO CET and ThinkTV Public Media Connect Channel Guide ThinkTV and CET ThinkTV16 & ThinkTV16HD – PBS icon series and more. ThinkTV14 & ThinkTV14HD – The best of PBS and more. ThinkTV16Again – ThinkTV16 prime time repeats. ThinkTV14 Prime – ThinkTV14 prime time repeats. ThinkTV16Life – Favorite how-to and lifestyle programs. ThinkTV14Kids – PBS Kids 24/7 ThinkTV16Ohio/WORLD – Ohio plus world news & ThinkTV14World – World news, public affairs and the Ohio channel. information. Complete program listings for all CET channels are available ThinkTV16Kids – PBS Kids 24/7 online at www.CETconnect.org. CET: 513-381-4033 CET & CETHD – PBS icon series and more. Complete program listings for all ThinkTV channels are available CETCreate – Educational and how-to programs. online at www.thinktv.org. ThinkTV: 937-220-1600 CETArts – Drama, performance and music showcase. 2 Public Media Connect • January 2021 JAN 2021 Connect-Fnl.indd 2 ALL - PAGE 2 12/1/20 10:52 AM Coming Soon As we kick off 2021, we wanted to share a few of the set any future release date for public television stations shows we’re looking forward to seeing in the coming nationwide. months and to update you on Doc Martin. We remain committed to airing the new Doc Martin First, a note from Chief Programming Officer episodes… whenever they’re released. But the cost to Jim Wiener... re-purchase older seasons you’ve seen plenty of times Attention Doc Martin fans: for the better part of two years, becomes a waste of our precious acquisition dollars. we’ve told you that a new season of episodes So we’ll air our remaining episodes and be done with the would at long last arrive January 2021. series until new ones are released. My apologies to our Doc Martin fans, but as you well know, this is entirely Now it turns out they won’t. out of our control. Acorn Media owns Doc Martin’s American distribution And now to highlight a few of the shows that are rights and they have refused, again, to release them or coming soon: NOVA “Beyond the Elements” David Pogue helps to unlock the mysteries of the molecules in this special from NOVA, designed to help more people fall in love with science. Wednesdays, February 3, 10 and 17, at 9pm on ThinkTV16 and CET Mondays, February 8, 15 and 22, at 9pm on ThinkTV14 Europe’s New Wild Europe is home to violent and diverse natural habitats. Discover Europe’s incredible wildlife and the inspiring stories of how endangered ecosystems are being given a helping hand. Wednesdays, February 3, 10 and 17, at 10pm on ThinkTV16 and CET Mondays, February 8, 15 and 22, at 10pm on ThinkTV14 American Experience “Voice of Freedom” On Easter Sunday 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to the microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. She was barred from performing at Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt publicly resigned her DAR membership in protest. Monday, February 15, at 9pm on CET and ThinkTV16 www.thinktv.org www.CETconnect.org 3 JAN 2021 Connect-Fnl.indd 3 12/1/20 10:52 AM Coming Soon (Continued) The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Tracing the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America, this film reveals how Black people have worshipped and, through their spiritual journeys, improvised ways to bring their faith traditions from Africa to the New World, while translating them into a form of Christianity that was not only truly their own, but a redemptive force for a nation whose original sin was found in their ancestors’ enslavement. Tuesdays, February 16 and 23, at 9pm on ThinkTV16 and CET NOVA “Mars 2020” NASA will attempt to land its newest robotic geologist, a rover named Perseverence, around the time of this broadcast. Wednesday, February 24, at 9pm on ThinkTV16 and CET Monday, March 1, at 9pm on ThinkTV14 Hemingway This three-part, six-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 5 – 7, at 8pm on CET and ThinkTV16 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece A princess steals the heart of the president of the United States in an epic drama based on the World War II relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Norwegian Crown Princess Martha. The eight-part series ranges back and forth across the Atlantic as diplomacy, romance and jealousy embroil Norwegians and Americans alike. Sundays, April 4 – May 23, at 9pm on ThinkTV16 and CET 4 Public Media Connect • January 2021 JAN 2021 Connect-Fnl.indd 4 12/1/20 10:52 AM Primetime Listings JANUARY 1-4 Friday, TV TV TV TV January 1 Think 16 & Think 16HD CET & CET HD Think 14 & Think 14HD 8:00 Washington Week Father Brown “The Celestial Choir” Someone tries to keep the Choresters 8:30 GZERO WORLD with Ian Bremmer Firing Line with Margaret Hoover from winning a competition. 9:00 Love Wins Over Hate Great Performances “From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2021” People who went from agents of anger to 9:30 Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic perform a festive advocates for empathy. selection of Strauss Family waltzes. 10:00 Place to Stand Jimmy Santiago Baca became a great poet, 10:30 Beyond The Canvas “All About The Music” novelist and screenwriter. Professor T Season 2 “Dead Girls Don’t Sing” 11:00 Amanpour and Company BBC World News (Episode 11 of 13) Saturday, TV TV TV TV January 2 Think 16 & Think 16HD CET & CET HD Think 14 & Think 14HD 8:00 The Carol Burnett Show - Carol’s Favorites Escape to the Chateau “The Fire Drill,” “Harry’s Mirage and Grill” “Winter Returns” 8:30 and “I Got Rhythm.” Movie: “Oliver!” After being sold to a mortician, young 9:00 Escape to the Chateau DIY Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a Investigators group of boys trained to be pickpockets 9:30 “The Sticking Place” by an elderly mentor. Sammy Davis, Jr.: American Masters 10:00 The vastly talented entertainer strove Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries to achieve the American Dream in a time of “Death & Hysteria” 10:30 Extraordinary: The Bill Atkinson Story racial prejudice. 11:00 ACL Hall of Fame: The First Six Years Shetland Season 4 (Episode 5 of 6) Elizabeth is Missing on Masterpiece Programming Highlight Two-time Academy Award®–winner Elizabeth is Missing on Masterpiece Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class, Women in Love) stars as a woman Sunday, January 3, at 9pm desperately trying to solve two on CET & ThinkTV16 mysteries as she declines ever deeper into dementia, sorting her memories, clues and deductions onto sticky notes that cover her house.
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