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Nashville Public Television Programs/Problems Report October – December 2015 Category: Arts NOLA: AMDO 002814 Series Title: POV Episode Title: Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/2/2015 10:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/2/2015 10:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 This stunning dissection of the persecution of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei ve backfired and explores how the government’s attempts to silence him ha turned him into an irrepressible voice for free speech and human rights around the globe. Category: Arts NOLA: MTMO 000000 Series Title: Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/13/2015 8:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/13/2015 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:00:00 She "turned the world on with her smile" on The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and countless movie roles. This special features dozens of classic clips plus comments from Betty White, Ed Asner, Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman, Gavin MacLeod, John Amos, Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, and Mary Tyler Moore herself. Plus, Oprah Winfrey recounts Mary Tyler Moore's critical role in inspiring her as TV's first independent career woman. Category: Business/Industry NOLA: MLNH 011369 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/5/2015 6:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/5/2015 7:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News (live news only) Segment Length: 00:06:32 In size and stakes, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a big deal: The U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations have struck the largest trade deal in a generation. The wide-ranging Trans-Pacific Partnership sets new rules for labor and environmental standards and reduces and phases out thousands of tariffs on American producers, among other provisions. But there's substantial opposition to the accord. Jeffrey Brown learns more from Greg Ip of The Wall Street Journal. Category: Crime/Legal Issues/Law Enforcement NOLA: FRON 003315 Series Title: Frontline | My Brother's Bomber Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/13/2015 10:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/13/2015 10:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 Follow Dornstein’s continued search for his brother’s killers, the terrorists who blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. The filmmaker uncovers new information about a suspected Lockerbie bomb-maker and attempts to make contact. Category: Culture NOLA: ILHP 000103 Series Title: I'll Have What Phil's Having Episode Title: Paris Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/12/2015 10:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/12/2015 10:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 Join Phil in the place he calls the “City of Sweets” as he indulges in some of the finest hot chocolate, football-sized croissants and vanilla bombes and searches for the best roast chicken and vegetable-centric dishes in the City of Lights. Category: Environment/Nature/Natural Disasters NOLA: GORN 000105 Stacked Series Title: Gorongosa Park - Rebirth of Paradise Episode Title: Battle Lines/Roaring Back Length: 120 minutes Airdate: 10/6/2015 8:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/6/2015 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:00:00 When Bob Poole returns to Gorongosa, he discovers a huge nesting colony of water birds. He resumes his search for the lion cubs that went missing. After the future of many sleepless nights, he finally meets the park’s new cubs — lions in Gorongosa. Category: Environment/Nature/Natural Disasters NOLA: NAAT 003303 Series Title: Nature Episode Title: Big Birds Can't Fly Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/7/2015 8:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/7/2015 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:00:00 Explore the evolution and unique stories of ostriches, emus, rheas, feathers, cassowaries and kiwis. Though it’s said a bird is three things — flight and song or sing, and their feathers are — these birds can’t fly closer to fluff. Category: Environment/Nature/Natural Disasters NOLA: NAAT 003304 Series Title: Nature Episode Title: Soul of the Elephant Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/14/2015 8:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/14/2015 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:00:00 Delve into the hearts, minds and even souls of elephants through the eyes of award-winning filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert, whose uniquely personal experiences with these iconic creatures of Africa provide a window into their remarkable lives. Category: Health/Health Care NOLA: TBRN 000101 Series Title: Brain with David Eagleman; The Episode Title: What Is Reality? Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/14/2015 10:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/14/2015 10:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:00:00 Dr. David Eagleman takes viewers on an extraordinary journey, exploring how the brain, locked in silence and darkness without direct access to the world, conjures the rich and beautiful world we all take for granted. Category: Science/Technology NOLA: NOVA 004212 Series Title: NOVA Episode Title: Secrets of Noah's Ark Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/7/2015 9:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/7/2015 9:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:00:00 A 3,700-year-old inscribed clay tablet reveals a surprising new version of the Biblical flood story, complete with how-to instructions for assembling an ark. Following the directions, expert boat builders assemble and launch a massive reed boat. Category: Science/Technology NOLA: NOVA 004217 Series Title: NOVA Episode Title: CyberWar Threat Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/14/2015 9:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/14/2015 9:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 Through startling, previously unreported detail, delve into the chilling new reality of cyberwar, in which cyber weapons can inflict physical damage on our factories, power plants and pipelines … leaving us vulnerable to crippling attacks. Category: Science/Technology NOLA: SEDE 001402 Series Title: Secrets of the Dead Episode Title: The Real Trojan Horse Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/13/2015 9:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/13/2015 9:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:00:00 Discover new archeological evidence that suggests Troy and the Trojan War may be more than myth. If the legendary siege did happen, was there really a wooden horse that brought enemy soldiers inside the fortified city? Category: Environment/Nature/Natural Disasters NOLA: NAAT 003306 Series Title: Nature | Pets: Wild at Heart Episode Title: Secretive Creatures Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/28/2015 8:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/28/2015 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:00:00 Discover how our pets get in touch with their wild side. Schlieren photography makes smells visible, while moving x-rays, ultraviolet light and doggycams reveal how our pets experience their world through hidden channels of communication. Category: Environment/Nature/Natural Disasters NOLA: NOVA 004219 Series Title: NOVA Episode Title: Animal Mummies Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/28/2015 9:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/28/2015 9:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:00:00 From baboons to bulls, crocodiles to cows, a vast menagerie of animal mummies lies buried in Egyptian catacombs. Hi- tech imaging reveals what’s inside the bundles and the strange role that animals played in ancient Egyptian beliefs. Category: Health/Health Care NOLA: TBRN 000103 Series Title: Brain with David Eagleman; The Episode Title: Who Is in Control? Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/28/2015 10:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/28/2015 10:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:00:00 Dr. Eagleman explores the unconscious brain and reveals that everything from our movements, to our decisions, to our behavior is largely controlled and orchestrated by an invisible world of unconscious neural activity. Category: Immigration/Refugees NOLA: FRON 003316 Series Title: Frontline Episode Title: Immigration Battle Length: 120 minutes Airdate: 10/20/2015 9:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/20/2015 9:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 02:00:00 Gain insight into the hard-fought battles and secret negotiations over immigration reform on Capitol Hill. Examine President Obama’s push for policy changes that could affect the fate of millions and define for decades what it means to be American. Category: National Politics/Government NOLA: MLNH 011382 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/22/2015 6:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/22/2015 7:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News (live news only) Segment Length: 00:12:38 Did we learn anything new from Clinton’s Benghazi testimony? House Republicans grilled former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the U.S. embassy attack in Benghazi, Libya. Political director Lisa Desjardins recaps the sometimes tense and emotional hearing. Judy Woodruff gets reaction from Yochi Dreazen of Foreign Policy and Anne Gearan of The Washington Post. Category: War/Veterans/National Security NOLA: FRON 003402 Series Title: Frontline Episode Title: Inside Assad's Syria Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 10/27/2015 10:00:00 PM O.B. Date: 10/27/2015 10:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:00:00 Join correspondent Martin Smith in Syria as he reports from government- controlled areas while the war rages.