Sunday 1/27/2013

EARLY | MORNING | AFTERNOON | EVENING | NOW PLAYING

6:00 pm EST

KET: Rough Cut - Woodworking with Tommy Mac; #301 "Coopered Leg Table" [TV-G]; Tommy creates a beautiful ambrosia maple Coopered Leg Table - perfect for a dining room or office. [High-Definition]

KET2: Nova; #4003 "Rise of the Drones" [TV-PG]; The explosive growth of airborne pilotless drones is transforming the armed forces of every nation. Discover the cutting-edge technologies that are propelling us toward a new chapter in aviation history. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Made & Bottled In Kentucky; The story of the early distillers in Kentucky and the multi-million-dollar industry they spawned. Master distillers and owners, some of whose families have been in the Kentucky bourbon distilling business for generations, are interviewed at the picturesque and historic distilleries. Maker's Mark, Brown-Foreman, Jim Beam, Heaven Hill, Barton, Wild Turkey, and Ancient Age are among the brands featured. Produced by Charles Cowdery with support from the KET Fund for Independent Production.

6:30

KET: Kentucky Collectibles; #103; Expert appraisers examine treasures including an original Woodstock poster, a Thomas Hart Benton lithograph, and an 18th century still life passed down through a Kentucky family for more than 200 years. [High-Definition] Watch Online

7:00

KET: Keeping Up Appearances; #104; Problems with the charity shop, Councilor Nugent, Rose's love life, and Daddy have Hyacinth at her wit's end.

KET2: Moyers & Company; #203 "What's Fueling The Modern Abortion Debate?" [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Muse; #202 "Finding Higher Ground"; Interviews and performance excerpts show how music and drama bring people in Harlan, Kentucky, together to talk about a life-and-death challenge facing the community—prescription drug abuse.

7:30

KET: Last of the Summer Wine; #1041 "Serenade for Tight Jeans & Metal Detectors" [TV-PG]; When Clegg buys a metal detector, our heroes head off to the hills to look for treasure.

7:59

KET: As Time Goes By; #109; Lionel and Jean take a trip to Hampshire to meet his eccentric father.

8:00

KET2: Freedom Riders: American Experience; [TV-PG]; From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives for simply traveling together on buses and trains in the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism. Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson's documentary is the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights activists. [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.

8:29

KET: Are You Being Served?; #163 "Night Club"; The staff makes a commercial for a nightclub. But the picture is lost, and the sound by itself makes the club sound like a harem.

8:29

KET: Are You Being Served?; #163 "Night Club"; The staff makes a commercial for a nightclub. But the picture is lost, and the sound by itself makes the club sound like a harem.

9:00

KET: Masterpiece Classic; #4304 "Downton Abbey, Season 3 - Part 4" [TV-PG]; The Crawley family faces its severest test yet. Meanwhile, new faces try to fit into the tight-knit circle of servants. New evidence turns up in a baffling case. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Cratis Williams: Living the Divided Life; Cratis Williams was an eloquent defender of Appalachian culture and one of the most important scholars of the postwar era. In this 1980s documentary, he visits his ancestral homeland on Caines Creek in Eastern Kentucky's Big Sandy Valley and reminisces about confronting the stereotypes of Appalachian culture and personalities. Interviews with Pat Beaver, Grace Edwards, Loyal Jones, Jim Wayne Miller, David Williams, and Gurney Norman attest to the importance of Williams' work to a generation of artists, writers, and scholars.

10:00

KET: Chatsworth House; #102 [TV-PG]; Preview two of the 16 special events that provide an income to support the upkeep of the house - the Chatsworth International Horse Trials and the annual Chatsworth flower festival, "Florabundance." [High-Definition]

KET2: The Abolitionists: American Experience; #103 "The Abolitionists, Part Three" [TV-PG]; During his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown is captured, then executed, becoming a martyr for the cause. Abraham Lincoln is elected president in 1860. Southern states secede, war breaks out, and the conflict unexpectedly drags on. In December 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, banning slavery in all states - forever. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Arturo Alonzo Sandoval: The Fabric of Art; [TV-G]; A profile of Arturo Sandoval, professor of art at the University of Kentucky and internationally recognized fiber artist. Sandoval, whose works appear in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in galleries throughout the country, is interviewed in his studio and is seen installing a monumental work at UK's Singletary Center for the Arts in Lexington. A 2003 KET production.

11:00

KET: Globe Trekker; #1108 "Globe Trekker Food Hour: Morocco" [TV-RE]; Ben O'Donoghue starts his culinary adventures with lunch at the camel market in Casablanca, learns to cook "harira" in the imperial city of Fes, lives with a nomadic family in the high dunes of the Western Sahara, scours the markets in Marrakesh for ingredients to make the classic "tagine," samples Berber delicacies in the High Atlas mountains, and fishes for his dinner in the port of Essaouira.

KET2: This Is America & The World; #1617 "Ambassador Dino Patti Djalal (Republic of Indonesia)" [TV-G]; Ambassador Djalal discusses Indonesia's Muslim community, economy, and the country's diverse and complex population.

KETKY: Bluegrass and Backroads; #906; See how artist Doug Durkee creates his Infinity Art, meet woodcarver Bob Gibson, a visit to Newport Aquarium and its new penquin exhibit, and Beech Spring Farm Market is one of Kentucky Farm Bureau's Certified Roadside Farm Markets. [High-Definition]

11:30

KET2: bookclub@ket; #403 "Home and Beyond"; Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss a collection of short stories by Kentucky authors compiled and edited by Morris Grubbs. Tales by Bobbie Ann Mason, Barbara Kingsolver, Jesse Stuart, Wendell Berry, Robert Penn Warren, Guy Davenport, and others explore the tension between the longing to leave home to explore what is beyond the familiar and the yearning to return to those comforting roots. A KET production. Watch Online

KETKY: Kentucky Time Capsule; #108 "A Time Remembered" [TV-G]; A look back at Louisville's early history, from the first settlement on Corn Island in 1778 to the end of the 19th century. By the mid-1800s, Louisville had become one of the most important cities in the country. At the end of the century, the steamboat era came to an end, and the city's economy made the transition to railroad transportation. Watch Online

Midnight

KET: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly; #1621 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KET2: Masterpiece Classic; #4304 "Downton Abbey, Season 3 - Part 4" [TV-PG]; The Crawley family faces its severest test yet. Meanwhile, new faces try to fit into the tight-knit circle of servants. New evidence turns up in a baffling case. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Muse; #202 "Finding Higher Ground"; Interviews and performance excerpts show how music and drama bring people in Harlan, Kentucky, together to talk about a life-and-death challenge facing the community—prescription drug abuse.