Friday 10/19/2012

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6:00 pm EDT

KET: BBC World News America; #17293 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KET2: Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman; #314 "Arrgh—All Me Eggs Are Cracked" [TV-Y]; There's a pirate curse on Ruff's family, thanks to an ancestor named Blackmuzzle. To break it, Ruff sends Sammy and Jay to the Florida Keys to search the ocean floor for Blackmuzzle's treasure. Meanwhile, Harsha and Sam work at a grocery store and compete in a grocery-bagging showdown. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Coal in Kentucky; [TV-G]; For over two hundred and fifty years coal mining has been a part of Kentucky's history. Through the voices of coal industry professionals, activists, politicians, and everyday people, this documentary examines the significance of this history, what it means today, and how we will move forward to responsibly mine coal while protecting the health, safety, and welfare of Kentucky's citizens, the environment, and the economy. [High-Definition]

6:30

KET: Nightly Business Report; #31340 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KET2: Cyberchase; #114 "Cool It" [TV-Y]; Determined to destroy Motherboard any way he can, Hacker clogs up her cooling system. Digit brings the kids in to help fix her, but the special cryoxide coolant she needs is found only in Castleblanca—and the supply is closely monitored. To bring back exactly enough cryoxide for Motherboard, the kids have to figure out the volume of her tank. In the process, they discover the importance of standard units of measure. [High-Definition]

7:00

KET: PBS NewsHour; #10480 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KET2: Pedal America; #103 "Y'all Pedal and Eat Now! - Savannah, Georgia" [TV-G]; Pedal around the city's architectural squares, the Wormsloe Historic Site, and Bonaventure Cemetery. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Lexington in the 40s: Swingin' in the Bluegrass; [TV-G]; Central Kentuckians recall the big band music scene in the Bluegrass during the World War II era, when Lexingtonians danced in clubs like Joyland, the Green Dome, and the Cotton Club and in the ballrooms of the Phoenix and Lafayette hotels. Archival photographs and film footage, some not seen since the 1940s, illustrate the memories of those places and times.

7:30

KET2: Consuelo Mack WealthTrack; #917 "Great Investors: Steven Romick" [TV-RE]

7:59

KETKY: Ted Bassett: A Kentucky Gentleman; Discover the extraordinary life of the longtime Keeneland Race Course executive Ted Bassett, a native Kentuckian who was a decorated World War II marine and former head of the state police. Through interviews with friends, colleagues, and contemporaries a picture emerges of a humble, self-effacing man who, believing in service to others, achieved great things. [High-Definition] Watch Online

8:00

KET: Comment on Kentucky; #3851; Journalists from around the state discuss news of the day with host Ferrell Wellman. Guests: John Cheves, reporter, Lexington Herald-Leader; Kenny Colston, Frankfort bureau reporter, Kentucky Public Radio; and Tom Loftus, Frankfort bureau chief, Lousiville Courier-Journal. A KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET2: Doc Martin; #405 "The Departed" [TV-PG]; Martin is in London to meet with Robert Dashwood, who is leading the selection process for the prestigious London surgeon's job that he has applied for. On the train back to Cornwall, Martin is annoyed to be seated next to one of his patients, a sheep farmer named Jim Selkirk. Jim falls asleep and slumps onto Martin's shoulder - dead from heart failure! Theo, one of Louisa's students, becomes ill in class. His parents, Juliet and Richard Wenn, are certain that their child picked up the illness in Joan's chicken coop during a school field trip. Martin cannot deny it is a possibility and the couple announces their intention to sue Aunt Joan. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Ted Bassett: A Kentucky Gentleman; Discover the extraordinary life of the longtime Keeneland Race Course executive Ted Bassett, a native Kentuckian who was a decorated World War II marine and former head of the state police. Through interviews with friends, colleagues, and contemporaries a picture emerges of a humble, self-effacing man who, believing in service to others, achieved great things. [High-Definition] Watch Online

8:30

KET: The McLaughlin Group; #3043 [TV-RE]

8:54

KET2: Movie Classics; #1049 "The Unforgiven" [TV-PG]; A Texas woman and her eldest son fight Kiowas over an adopted daughter. Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, and Lillian Gish star. (1960) [High-Definition]

9:00

KET: Washington Week; #5216 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KETKY: 2012 Governor's Awards in the Arts; #801; Gov. Steve Beshear honors Kentuckians for their achievements in the performing and visual arts. This year's recipients include William Francis, Bobbie Ann Mason, Gray Zeitz, UK HealthCare Arts in HealthCare Program, Latitude Artist Community, Christina Hartke Towell, Leona Waddell, U. S. Rep. John Yarmuth, and Jeffrey Lee Puckett. [High-Definition] Watch Online

9:00

KETKY: 2012 Governor's Awards in the Arts; #801; Gov. Steve Beshear honors Kentuckians for their achievements in the performing and visual arts. This year's recipients include William Francis, Bobbie Ann Mason, Gray Zeitz, UK HealthCare Arts in HealthCare Program, Latitude Artist Community, Christina Hartke Towell, Leona Waddell, U. S. Rep. John Yarmuth, and Jeffrey Lee Puckett. [High-Definition] Watch Online

9:01

KETKY: 2012 Governor's Awards in the Arts; #801; Gov. Steve Beshear honors Kentuckians for their achievements in the performing and visual arts. This year's recipients include William Francis, Bobbie Ann Mason, Gray Zeitz, UK HealthCare Arts in HealthCare Program, Latitude Artist Community, Christina Hartke Towell, Leona Waddell, U. S. Rep. John Yarmuth, and Jeffrey Lee Puckett. [High-Definition] Watch Online

9:30

KET: Need To Know; #258; [High-Definition]

10:00

KET: Broadway: The American Musical; #102 "Syncopated City (1919-1933)" [TV-PG]; Prohibition and the Jazz Age; Broadway heroines like Marilyn Miller, who becomes a testament to pluck and luck; "Whoopee" and the Charleston; Runnin' Wild and George White's Scandals; the revolutionary jazz show Shuffle Along, which reopens Broadway's doors to black talent; the Marx Brothers; Al Jolson's meteoric rise to stardom; and songwriting teams the Gershwin brothers and Rodgers and Hart. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Appalshop @ 40: Classics from the Collection; #105 "Buffalo Creek: An Act of God/Buffalo Creek Revisited" [TV-G]; On February 26, 1972, a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Company collapsed at the head of a crowded hollow in southern West Virginia. The disaster left 125 dead and 4,000 homeless. Interviews with survivors, representatives of union and citizen's groups, and officials of the Pittston Company are juxtaposed with actual footage of the flood. Filmed ten years after the Flood, Buffalo Creek Revisited looks at the second disaster, in which the survivors' efforts to rebuild the communities are thwarted by government insensitivity and a century-old pattern of corporate control of the region's land and resources.

11:00

KET: BBC World News; #23293 [TV-RE]

KET2: Charlie Rose; #18215 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KETKY: Jubilee - Summertime Blues; #1511 "Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm/Curley Tay"; The drums and guitar sound of Burnside and Malcolm pulsates with raw energy, and Taylor and his group dish up zydeco steeped in contemporary R & B, in performances recorded at the 2010 W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival in Henderson, Kentucky. A 2011 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

11:30

KET: Kentucky Life; #1112 "Military History Museum/Underground Railroad Quilts/Canoeing the Green/Homeplace" [TV-G]; The Kentucky Military History Museum in Frankfort preserves artifacts of volunteer military organizations from the Revolution through the Gulf War, and the work of Louisville quilter Willie Pride reveals secrets from African-American history. Outdoors author Johnny Molloy canoes the Green River, and the nearby Homeplace, a "working timeline farm," gives visitors a taste of farm life from past to present to future. A 2005 KET production hosted by Dave Shuffett. Watch Online

Midnight

KET: WoodSongs; #711 "Jakob Dylan with Neko Case and Jayme Stone with Yacouba Sissoko" [TV-G]; Jakob Dylan returns with songs from his new solo album Women and Country, he performs with 3 Legs featuring Neko Case and Kelly Hogan. Jayme Stone and Yacouba Sissoko perform material from Stone's award-winning project, Africa to Appalachia.

KET2: Tavis Smiley; #2715 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KETKY: Reel Visions: Spotlight on Kentucky Filmmakers; #116 "Films by Kris Rommel, Thom Southerland, and Natalie Baxter"; In Balance, a film by Louisville filmmaker Kris Rommel, two men find themselves trapped in a mysterious room where they reflect upon their lives. Also featured Holidays by Thom Southerland, and Middle Ground by Natalie Baxter. [High-Definition] Watch Online