April 2013 Program Guide
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WTVPApril 2013 Program Guide Your WTVP Program Guide is a benefit of membership —thank you! Also visit wtvp.org /BZ Tickets available at the box office, ticketmaster.com, and at 1–800–745–3000. PeoriaCivicCenter.com WTVP—More Choices April—Auction & Auction Dates Beyond! Thursday, April 25 from 7-11 p.m. As loyal viewers know, April is “Auction Month” on Friday, April 26 For more WTVP. Our on-air extravaganza is an eagerly anticipated from 7 p.m.-1 a.m. annual event filled with incredible merchandise, great Saturday, April 27 information, from 6 p.m.-Midnight deals, and tons of fun with four nights of live TV thrills, Sunday, April 28 please visit spills and familiar faces. Tune in (April 25-28), bid often, from 5 – 11 p.m. wtvp. org and enjoy. But that’s only part of the story. April is also filled with the spectacular programming Wyou expect from WTVP. Sunday nights continue as THE place for British drama with Auction Reschedule On the Cover... new births, bicycling and budding romance in season 2 of Call the Midwife, while Here’s some help finding your regularly- April means Auction! Jeremy Piven stars as the upstart American who taught the English how to shop in the scheduled favorites during Auction Week: sumptuous new Masterpiece mini-series, Mr. Selfridge. Both eight-part series start Buy your Express Bid Number, Thursday, 4/5 March 31 and air at 7 and 8 p.m. respectively. And The Bletchley Circle joins the raffle tickets and Auction apparel lineup on April 21 at 9 p.m. This new three-part murder mystery follows four ordinary 7 p.m.—This Old House Hour will run online right now at the Auction women with extraordinary ability to break codes, a skill honed during World War II at midnight and again Saturday, April 27 Store: wtvp.org. And watch for when they worked undercover at Bletchley Park, site of the United Kingdom’s main from 12:30-1:30 p.m. great items—like this hand-crafted decryption establishment. Each series will be rescheduled during Auction. (See Auc- Julia Popa quilt from The Retired Friday, 4/6 tion Reschedule at right) Quilt, ceramic sculpture by Sandra 7 p.m.—Washington Week will air McKenzie Schmitt, Drusy bracelet Wednesdays are for exploration with exciting new installments of NOVA and a Sunday, April 28 at 4 a.m. from Nature Haven, and football three-part series on health, diet and exercise with British doctor/journalist Michael 7:30 p.m.—Interesting People will return autographed by players from Mosley. Thursdays are still about local programming with Illinois Adventure and next Friday, May 3 the 1985 Bears championship new At Issue. Friday is your destination for the arts with music galore from Josh 8 p.m.—Live from Lincoln Center “Rod- team—when you tune in live April Groban, Stephanie Blythe and more. And great filmmaking is always on tap with such gers and Hammerstein’s Carousel” will air 25-28. More Auction information highlights as Ken Burns’s latest, The Central Park Five, and David Sutherland’s (“The Sunday, April 28 from 2-4:30 p.m. on pages 22-23. Farmers Wife”) two-part special, Kindhearted Woman, following an Oglala Sioux mother on her journey through abuse, heartbreak and redemption. Saturday, 4/7 Peruse your Guide for more details about these specials. And visit us online at 6 p.m.-midnight—Regular programming www.wtvp.org for even more programming information. will return next week Sunday, 4/8 5 & 5:30 p.m.—Regular programming will return next week 6 p.m.—Antiques Roadshow will return next week 7 p.m.—Call the Midwife 2 episode 5 can be seen Monday, April 29, at 9 p.m. (and overnight). Doc Martin, normally seen at that time, will move ahead to next Monday, May 6 at 9 p.m. 8 p.m.—Masterpiece Classic “Mr. Selfridge” part 5 can be seen at midnight and Thursday, May 2 at 9 p.m. 9 p.m.—The Bletchley Circle episode 2 can be seen at 1 a.m. and Thursday, May 2 at 8 p.m. WTVP—More Choices For complete listings information, please visit wtvp.org WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD Explore Spring Daytime Schedule Join America’s favorite monkey for a new PBS KIDS special: Curious George Swings into Spring. From Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday spring fever to spring cleaning, from 5:00 bbc woRLD NEws a canoe ride to a hot air balloon journey, George and his friends 5:0 wi LD KRATTS get viewers ready to explore the 6:00 ARTHUR outdoors. The one-hour adventure premieres Monday, April at 7 6:0 M ARTHA SPEaks a.m., and will repeat Friday, April 6 at 7 a.m. and throughout the 7:00 CURO I US GEORGE weekend. 7:0 THE CAT in THE HaT Knows A LoT AboUT THAT 8:00 SU PER WHY! 8:0 DINOSAUR TRain 9:00 SEsamE STREET 10:00 DANIEL TigER’S NEigHboRHood 10:0 SDI THE SciEncE Kid1 11:00 CI A LLOU This new monkey-tastic adventure 11:0 MARTHA ciao THE AMERica’S sEwing is the culmination of “Explore the STEwaRT’S iTALia vicTORY HEARTLand wiTH Outdoors” – three weeks of themed COOKING gaRDEN NANCY on-air programming and online SCHooL content designed to encourage kids 1:00 CHARLIE ROSE and families to explore the outdoors and discover nature. 1:00 MARKET mcLAUGHLin LawREncE THE SCHEEWE Wild Kratts “Rainforest Week” TO maRKET gROUp wELK Piano aRT – April 1-5, 5:0 a.m. and 4 p.m. SHow gUY WORksHop A wild week features new and encore 1:0 MOTORWEEk EURopEan maRTHA’s THE BEST of episodes. JOURnaL sEwing THE JOY Dinosaur Train “Dancing with Room of painTing Dinosaurs Week” – April 8-1, 2:00 bodY ELECTRic 8:0 a.m. The most musical episodes make for 2:0 OCURI US GEORGE a week of dance-tastic adventures. 3:00 ARTHUR The Cat in the Hat Knows a lot 3:0 WORDGIRL About That “Fabulous Animal Families Week” – April 15-19, 4:00 wiLD KRATTS 7:0 a.m. 4:0 T EHE EL CTRic CompanY Meet spiders, koalas, crocodiles, lemmings, gorillas, manatees and 5:00 MARTHA SPEaks meerkats during a mix of new and 5:0 nigHTLY BUsinEss REpoRT encore episodes. Kids and parents can continue their 6:00 PBS NEWSHOUR exploration online with outdoor MOVIE SPECIAL: CURIOUS GEORGE SWINGS INTO SPRING (60 MINUTES) Children’s Programs themed games, activities and videos 4/22 (MONDAY) 7 AM & 2 PM available on PBSKIDS.org/outdoors 4/26 (FRIDAY) 7 AM and through the PBS KIDS Video 4/27 (SATURDAY) 6 AM App. 4/28 (SUNDAY) 6 AM 4 WTVP—More Choices WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD ask for your direct help. If you would like Notes from the President & CEO to see Lark Rise or other specific British programming continue, please make an Downton Abbey has concluded its third season and extra contribution now to the Britcom rumors are rife with new cast members, new love interests, Program Fund at www.wtvp.org. We will use any money sent to that fund and more sturm und drang for the Crawleys. exclusively for these special programs. Whatever will we do with our Sunday evenings until This being April can only mean Auction … the 40th Annual WTVP Televised Downton returns? Auction beginning Thursday the 25th and continuing through Sunday the 28th. Well, let me recommend a few other British series for you: Call the Midwife, Mr. Self- and the loss of significant amounts of Items of all types, literally from soup to ridge and The Bletchley Circle. These superbly produced series will find a warm place federal dollars thanks to the Sequestra- nuts, are already coming in thanks to in your heart, and the intelligent writing will give your brain reason to celebrate. tion inflicted upon us by Washington, our generous donors and go-getters. If leave our program budget hurting. We With the advent of the new comes the pain of departure of old friends. The last few you have items you would like to donate, still have $200,000 outstanding to PBS episodes of Lark Rise to Candleford air this month as our contracted broadcast rights please call to arrange a pick up or drop for primetime programming that has to run out. The only chance of saving this series or in acquiring some of the new series of off, and then be sure to tune in or go be paid by June, so we have no alternative Britcoms and Britdramas that constantly tantalize Linda Miller, our VP of Program- online and WATCH! BID and BUY! ming, is to raise about $15,000 specifically for these programs. Cuts in State funding but to raid the budget we have allocated for discretionary programming. Let me Many thanks for your generosity, Chet Tomczyk, President & CEO 1 AdvENTURE SpoRTS OUTdooRS on 4/7 It’s the Weekend! 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