Sunday 1/6/2013

EARLY | MORNING | AFTERNOON | EVENING | NOW PLAYING

6:00 am EST

KET: Sesame Street; #4311 "Telly The Tiebreaker" [TV-Y]; Elmo, Zoe, Rosita and friends are making a beautiful block house, but can't agree whether to put a square or circle on top. Alan helps them solve the problem by having them raise their hands for the one they like best. [High-Definition]

KET2: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly; #1618 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Music; #108 "John P. Rodgers"; John P. Rogers, a young Carter County musician, is a talented multi-instrumentalist who has studied old-time music of his region. [High-Definition]

6:30

KET2: bookclub@ket; #202 "The Dollmaker"; Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss Harriette Simpson Arnow's classic novel The Dollmaker, about an Eastern Kentucky family's move north in search of wartime jobs. A 2000 KET production. Watch Online

KETKY: Kentucky Collectibles; #102; Expert appraisers examine treasures including pottery from Newcomb College, a 1946 Martin Guitar, and some of the rarest marbles in the world. [High-Definition] Watch Online

7:00

KET: Curious George; #604 "George and the Giant Thumb/Shutter Monkey" [TV-Y]; George and Allie make a mud sculpture of Bill's sprained thumb. George and Steve accidentally ruin the pictures Betsy planned to enter in a photo contest, so George attempts to duplicate them by retaking the shots. [High-Definition]

KET2: European Journal; #3101 "Greece's Refugees Want to Go Home" [TV-G]

KETKY: Kentucky Afield; #2914 [TV-G]; A KET/Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources co-presentation hosted by Tim Farmer. [High-Definition]

7:30

KET: The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!; #115 "Jump!/Slow Down for Sloths" [TV-Y]; Nick and Sally go to Jumpalaroo to learn how to jump higher. Nick and Sally try to draw a picture of a butterfly but can't get close enough to see it. Cat takes the kids to meet Onslow the sloth, who teaches them that when you slow down, the world comes to you. [High-Definition]

KET2: Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Technique; #901 "Weight Loss: Slenderizing Your Core" [TV-G]; [High-Definition]

KETKY: Bluegrass and Backroads; #903 "Cowango Studios, St Joseph Children Home, Ed Hamil"; Meet two artists in Paducah whose styles are very different, the annual picnic at St. Joseph Children's Home, meet sculptor Ed Hamilton, and visit Phelps Toys. [High-Definition]

8:00

KET: Super Why!; #122 "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" [TV-Y]; Red is upset because Gramma won't let her into the kitchen to get some red velvet cake. The Super Readers head into the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff, who really want to cross the Troll's bridge, to get the Troll's side of the story. [High-Definition]

KET2: Wai Lana Yoga; #510 "Banish Lower Back Pain" [TV-G]

KETKY: Louisville Life; #703 "Hadley Pottery/Rooibee Red Tea/Barbara Sexton Smith/Wendy Whelan"; A visit to Hadley Pottery reveals a proud tradition of creating beautiful handmade pottery; Rooibee Red Tea, a relatively new Louisville business which produces bottled teas that are getting national buzz; an interview with Barbara Sexton Smith, president and CEO for Fund for the Arts; and a look at the Kentucky Muse program featuring New York City Ballet principal dancer and Louisville native Wendy Whelan. A 2013 KET production hosted by Candyce Clifft. [High-Definition] Watch Online

8:30

KET: Dinosaur Train; #216 "Dinos A to Z, Part 3, Classification/Dinos A to Z, Part 4, A To Z Picnic" [TV-Y]; The Pteranodon kids learn about classification and Don organizes the dinosaurs on the Train by their species, features, and size. [High-Definition]

KET2: GED Connection; #112 "Nonfiction" [TV-G]; Explores three kinds of nonfiction writing—informational, opinion, and memoir—and illustrates how to get the most out of reading them. Writer Luis Rodriguez reads from Always Running, his memoir about gang life.

KETKY: Comment on Kentucky; #3910; Journalists from around the state discuss news of the day with host Ferrell Wellman. Guests: John Cheves, reporter, Lexington Herald-Leader; Ronnie Ellis, Frankfort reporter, for CNHI, Inc.; and Tom Loftus, Frankfort bureau chief, Louisville Courier-Journal. A KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

9:00

KET: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood; #110 "Daniel Shares His Tigertastic Car/Katerina Shares Her Tutu" [TV-Y]; Daniel has a new toy car and struggles to share it with the others. Daniel and Katerina decide to perform a Jungle Dance show but need to find a way to share the same tutu. [High-Definition]

KET2: GED Connection; #113 "Fiction" [TV-G]; Explores elements of fiction in short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, and James Baldwin and the contemporary novel Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, who reads an excerpt from the book.

KETKY: Connections with Renee Shaw; #815 "Cathy Holloway Hill"; An author, life coach, and radio talk show host, Cathy Holloway Hill has written a book on how to uncover and discover the real you in Lies, Love and Life. [High-Definition] Watch Online

9:30

KET: Sid the Science Kid; #205 "Sid's Super Kick!" [TV-Y]; In his backyard, Sid is pretending to be "Super Sid!" To show his super strength, he kicks a soccer ball really hard and it sails across the yard. But when he tries to kick it to a nearby tree with the same might, the ball once again sails really far. On a special trip to the Science Center, Sid and his friends investigate how using lots of force makes something move really far and fast - just like kicking a soccer ball! [High-Definition]

KET2: GED Connection; #114 "Poetry" [TV-G]; Poet Sonia Sanchez reads from her work and shows how to analyze a poem, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky introduces the "Favorite Poem Project," and people talk about how poetry can be a powerful means of expression.

KETKY: One to One with Bill Goodman; #801 "Gov. Steve Beshear"; Bill sits down with Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to preview the 2013 legislative session. A 2013 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

10:00

KET: To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe; #2143 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KET2: SciGirls; #201 "Aquabots" [TV-G]; Akina and friends dive into underwater robotics at the U.S. Naval Academy, building a "Sea Perch" ROV to investigate artificial oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Great Conversations:; #1405 "Ahmed Rashid and Clarissa Ward"; Ahmed Rashid is the author of Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is interviewed by CBS News Foreign Correspondent Clarissa Ward. The leading journalist in Pakistan, Rashid draws on his keen knowledge of the region to deftly explain what the future may hold. A 2012 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

10:30

KET: Inside Washington; #2438 [TV-G]

KET2: Cyberchase; #802 "Face-Off" [TV-Y]; The CyberSquad must analyze a sneaky ad campaign to decide if the cool new Cyberblades are truly the best choice to help Fluff's team win the prestigious Penguia Cup. [High-Definition]

11:00

KET: Moyers & Company; #152 "Ending The Silence On Climate Change" [TV-G]; [High-Definition]

KET2: Saving The Ocean; #107 "River of Kings, Part 2" [TV-G]; Wild Chinook salmon begin to repopulate the Nisqually River's pristine spawning grounds. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Life; #615 "Richard Taylor/Dr. C.C. Howard/William T. Young Library/Heartwood Industries" [TV-G]; A Kentucky poet laureate, the Kentucky doctor who attended Floyd Collins and Sgt. Alvin York, the William T. Young Library at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and a Hartford factory that recycles old wooden materials into new flooring. A 2000 KET production hosted by Dave Shuffett. Watch Online

11:30

KET2: Kentucky Collectibles; #105; A look back at some of the best moments from the first season of Kentucky Collectibles. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KETKY: Kentucky Time Capsule; #103 "Three for Kentucky (Part 2)" [TV-G]; Journalist Al Smith continues his interviews with three Kentuckians whose families have lived in the state since the nation's founding. Watch Online

Noon

KET: The McLaughlin Group; #3102 [TV-RE]

KET2: Louisville Life; #703 "Hadley Pottery/Rooibee Red Tea/Barbara Sexton Smith/Wendy Whelan"; A visit to Hadley Pottery reveals a proud tradition of creating beautiful handmade pottery; Rooibee Red Tea, a relatively new Louisville business which produces bottled teas that are getting national buzz; an interview with Barbara Sexton Smith, president and CEO for Fund for the Arts; and a look at the Kentucky Muse program featuring New York City Ballet principal dancer and Louisville native Wendy Whelan. A 2013 KET production hosted by Candyce Clifft. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KETKY: James Still's River of Earth; [TV-G]; A portrait of one of Kentucky's most distinguished and honored writers, an Alabama native who lived and worked in Knott County from 1931 until his death in the spring of 2001. Regarded as the dean of Appalachian literature, Still wrote the novel River of Earth as well as short stories, children's books, collections of mountain lore and sayings, and poetry. A 1997 KET production.