Saturday 1/12/2013

EARLY | MORNING | AFTERNOON | EVENING | NOW PLAYING

2:00 am EST

KET: Pioneers of Television; #101 "Sitcoms" [TV-G]; Focuses on five key sitcoms: I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Make Room for Daddy, The Andy Griffith Show, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. [High-Definition]

KET2: Barnes Collection - PBS Arts; [TV-PG]; The quirky, quarrelsome Dr. Albert C. Barnes and his astounding art collection are explored. View paintings by some of the most famous names in art history such as Picasso, Cezanne, Renoir, and Matisse. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Appalshop @ 40: Classics from the Collection; #106 "Strangers and Kin" [TV-G]; The film traces the evolution of the "hillbilly" image through Hollywood films, network news and entertainment shows, dramatic renderings of popular literature, and interviews with contemporary Appalachians to demonstrate how stereotypes are created, reinforced, and often used to rationalize exploitation.

3:00

KET: KMEA Marching Band Championships 2012; #1701; Performances by finalists in all five classes of the 2012 Kentucky high school marching band championships. A production of Great American Video. [High-Definition]

KET2: The Mind of A Chef; #115 "Smoke" [TV-PG]; David Chang profiles regional BBQ in North Carolina, Texas, and Kansas City and the other-worldly smoky bacon from Allen Benton in Tennessee. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Tom Owen's Louisville; #104 "Life in the Old Neighborhood"; Tom Owen takes viewers back in time to just after World War II when front porches, corner grocery stores and taverns, sidewalks filled with residents and visitors, the neighborhood picture show, and others conveyed a sense of community.

3:30

KET2: The Mind of A Chef; #116 "Buddies" [TV-PG]; David Chang cooks with his friends Peter Meehan in Japan, Laurent Gras, Sat Bains, and Rene Redzepi in Copenhagen. [High-Definition]

4:00

KET2: History Detectives; #1009 [TV-PG]; Stories from our nation's beginning involve an early American bill of sale for a 17-year old "negro girl," a powder horn from the American Revolution, a handwritten score and the "Star Spangled Banner," and a 1775 almanac. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Third Lives in the First World; Explores the challenges and surprises encountered by recent immigrants to the Louisville area and their impressions of their new home, focusing on several Somalian refugees who narrowly escaped death in their homeland. Produced by Joshua Shapero of Louisville with support from the KET Fund for Independent Production.

5:00

KET: Math Basics; #111 "Putting It All Together"; Two- and three-dimensional shapes; sorting and classifying shapes; the relationships among volume, surface area, and shape; ratio and proportion; figuring cost per unit.

KET2: The This Old House Hour; #1115 [TV-G]; New granite steps, a timeless window seat, and some MDF doors cleverly disguised as wainscoting are installed. Plus, a toilet is installed and a lawn is patched with grass seed. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Southern Fried Fitness; #312 "End The Diet Rollercoaster.... Why Eat Clean?" [TV-G]; Join Robin as she supports her conviction to clean eating and living the 80/20 lifestyle.

5:30

KET: Math Basics; #101 "Beginning"; Orientation to the series; basic mathematics vocabulary; applying math to real-life settings.

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

6:00

KET: Bob the Builder; #810 "Following Clues (Pt. 3)" [TV-Y]; While working on the Fixham Theater, Spud and Scrambler follow clues to find the Golden Hammer. At Fixham Harbor, Roley befriends a seagull that gets very angry when the team begins to lift an old ship out of the water. [High-Definition]

KET2: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; #1716 "Jugglers - Flying Karamazov Brothers/Macaroni Factory" [TV-Y]; World-famous jugglers the Flying Karamazov Brothers visit Mister Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl wants to teach everyone to fly. [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

6:30

KET: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood; #114 "Thank You, Grandpere Tiger!/Neighborhood Thank You Day" [TV-Y]; Daniel is sad that Grandpere Tiger can't come to the special Thank You Day celebration. Daniel has trouble deciding what to put in his note for the annual neighborhood Thank You Day celebration. [High-Definition]

KET2: Peep and the Big Wide World/Pocoyo; #319 "The Disappearing Drink/Door Tour" [TV-Y]; Someone is stealing Chirp's water. Peep wants a new door for his can. Pato and Elly enjoy skipping with a skipping rope.

KETKY: Comment on Kentucky; #3911; Journalists from around the state discuss news of the day with host Ferrell Wellman. Guests: Jack Brammer, political writer, Lexington Herald-Leader; Kenny Colston, Frankfort bureau chief, Kentucky Public Radio; and Joe Gerth, political writer, Louisville Courier-Journal. A KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

7:00

KET: Curious George; #606 "Wind Symphony/George and Allie's Automated Car Wash" [TV-Y]; George is an expert at making noise, so Mr. Zoobel asks for his help in creating a one-of-a-kind rooftop Wind Symphony. Spish! Spish! Blub blub! George and Allie are so impressed by Sprint Quint's automatic car wash that they decide to build their own - for toy cars! [High-Definition]

KET2: Inside Washington; #2439 [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

7:00

KET2: Inside Washington; #2439 [TV-G]

7:30

KET: The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!; #204 "No Night Today/Fun in the Sun" [TV-Y]; Nick and Sally want to keep playing, but it's getting dark. They meet Astronaut Audrey and learn about the solar system. The kids meet Hilda the Hippo who teaches them that hippos make their very own sunscreen to protect them from the hot sun. [High-Definition]

KET2: Comment on Kentucky; #3911; Journalists from around the state discuss news of the day with host Ferrell Wellman. Guests: Jack Brammer, political writer, Lexington Herald-Leader; Kenny Colston, Frankfort bureau chief, Kentucky Public Radio; and Joe Gerth, political writer, Louisville Courier-Journal. A KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KETKY: Roundabout U; #521; [High-Definition] Watch Online

8:00

KET: Super Why!; #124 "Goldilocks and the Three Bears: The Mystery" [TV-Y]; Whyatt needs to prove his innocence in a case of broken guitar strings. The Super Readers consult with Goldilocks, who is just as determined to prove that she didn't make the mess in the Three Bears' house. [High-Definition]

KET2: GED Connection; #139 "Special Topics in Algebra and Geometry" [TV-G]; Explores patterns in math and in the real world and shows how mathematical relationships can be plotted on the coordinate plane.

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.