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Vegas PBS Source Art Director Tom Axtell Anton Tielemans This magazine is printed on recycled paper OCTOBER 2017 5 October 2017 Contents Cover Story 8 Poldark, Season 3 on Masterpiece With unforgettable characters, a gripping story, fiery passions and stunning scenery, this romantic series has taken audiences by storm. Departments 5 Message to Our Members Letter from General Manager Tom Axtell 14 Upcoming Member Events 22 A Message from the Director of Content Features 10 History Time Scanners 11 Health Sight:The Story of Vision, Hooked Rx: From Prescription to Addiction and much more 13 Arts Special Musical Performances 8 16 Science Think Wednesday 17 Spotlight Finding Your Roots (New season!) 18 How-To Family Ingredients (Season 2) 19 Spotlight Hispanic Heritage Month 32 The Vietnam War 33 This Old House (New season!) 34 Anne of Green Gables 35 Jackie Robinson 37 Vegas PBS Rewind/Worldview/Jackpot! 11 16 Program Menu 23 Weekdays/Children’s Lineup 24 Primetime Programming 32 Weekend Daytime Programming 36 Vegas PBS Create Programming Vegas PBS Channels 38 Vegas PBS Sponsors 17 32 OCTOBER 2017 7 COVER STORY left to right: Jack Farthing, Heida Reed, Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson, Luke Norris and Gabriella Wilde Whitworth gives every indication of being a rank libertine, to the horror of the upright Poldark, Season 3 and innocent Morwenna. Meanwhile, George manages to abuse every privilege he accrues on Masterpiece in his ruthless climb to power. Also enlivening the new season are a mys- terious plague of frogs, a thwarted famine Sundays at 9 p.m. and Aunt Agatha’s eagerly anticipated one- hundredth birthday party, which has a cata- With unforgettable characters, a gripping strophic catch. But the most stirring action story, fiery passions and stunning scenery, involves the French Revolution, which man- this romantic series has taken audiences by ages to ensnare one of the program’s main storm. In the highly anticipated new season, characters in its Reign of Terror, prompting enjoy the latest thrilling exploits of Ross Poldark’s most dangerous mission yet. Poldark and his fiery partner, Demelza, star- Poldark Revealed ring Aidan Turner (The Hobbit) and Eleanor Sunday, October 1 at 8 p.m. Tomlinson (Death Comes to Pemberley) as Follow the cast and crew on location in the intrepid eighteenth century duo. Last sea- beautiful Cornwall as they bring Winston son, TV Guide was captivated by Poldark’s Graham’s much beloved saga to life. This Sean Gilder “myriad pleasures, not the least of which is special digs deep into the series’ tumultuous Aidan Turner’s swarthy charisma as the as Elizabeth’s pretty cousin Morwenna. background through exclusive interviews chivalrous and perilously proud crusader of Hired as the governess for Elizabeth’s young from cast and crew. Cornwall...Poldark is the sort of great son (by her previous marriage to Poldark’s Additionally, hear interviews from Poldark’s escape you would be foolish to resist.” cousin Francis), Morwenna is soon a pawn in historical consultant, Dr. Hannah Greig, and As the saga opens, fresh doubts are intro- George’s grand game to win political influ- an in-depth conversation with the author’s duced about the paternity of Elizabeth’s ence. Morwenna would prefer to share com- son, Andrew Graham, who reveals how his impending baby, along with some consequen- pany with Demelza’s strapping brother father began writing the Poldark novels when tial new characters including Ellise Chappell Drake, but George intends her to marry the he moved to Cornwall as a coastguard during recently widowed Reverend Whitworth. the Second World Wa r. 8 VEGAS PBS SOURCE ...a turbulent era in “French history, when partisans hunted down Nazi collaborators...” The Collection on Masterpiece Sundays at 10 p.m. beginning October 8 World War II is over and stylish clothes are back as Paris recovers from the horrors of the Nazi occupation. In this new drama, the Sabine family is struggling to build a fashion empire at any cost, composed of business-savvy Paul (Richard Coyle), his wealthy American wife Helen (Mamie Gummer) and his brilliant but dissipated designer brother Claude (Tom Riley). Set in 1947, the drama captures a tur- bulent era in French history when partisans hunted down Nazi collaborators and anyone with something to hide shunned the past and embraced the future. Fashion became the perfect expression of this impulse to look ahead. Wartime rationing, drabness and erotic restraint gave way to alluring displays of color, form and fabric in women’s clothes — for those who could afford them.The Sabine family firm is at the forefront of this exciting but ruthless pur- suit, and Paul has been chosen by the French government to lead the battle to reclaim the nation’s preeminence in the cou- Milo Parker as Gerald Durrell ture world.