Thursday 2/14/2013

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KET: Market Warriors; #116 "Antiquing In Chantilly, Va" [TV-PG]; The pickers travel to Chantilly, Virginia, for the DC Big Flea to find miniature furniture. Notable finds include a crocodile suitcase, a mid-century modern clock, and a Chinese screen. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Tobacco Blues; Can a good person grow tobacco? As the cigarette war rages, small-scale American tobacco farmers have been the overlooked casualties. Dynamic filmmaking duo Eren McGinnis and Christine Fugate travel across Kentucky to meet families who have been growing this crop for generations and examine how they are facing the consequences of this fuming controversy. Produced with support from the KET Fund for Independent Production.

KET: Legislative Update; #2509; Highlights from legislative proceedings of February 14, 2013. Watch Online

KETKY: From This Valley; Author and outdoorsman Gurney Norman explores Eastern Kentucky's Big Sandy region, including its trails, its people, its history, and its rich literary heritage. A 1989 KET production. Watch Online

KET: 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: Jubilee; #1608 "Nedski and Mojo with Jana"; Nedski and Mojo with Jana, known for their banjo-guitar and mandolin-guitar duets, perform at the 3rd annual International Newgrass Festival. A 2012 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET: 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.

KET: Louisville Life; #708 "Aebersold Jazz/Waterfront Development Corp./Donald Lassere/Leonard and Adele Leight"; For 45 years, saxophonist and educator Jamey Aebersold has traveled the globe teaching people how to play jazz; a look at the efforts of Louisville's Waterfront Development Corporation; an interview with Donald Lassere, executive director of the Muhammad Ali Center; and take a tour of Leonard and Adele Leights' Louisville home and learn more about their lives. A 2013 KET production hosted by Candyce Clifft. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET: Frontline; #3105 "Cliffhanger" [TV-PG]; The inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country's problems of debt and deficit. The film explores the ideological divide inside the Republican Party and the struggle between House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Speaker John Boehner as they take on President Obama and the Democrats. [High-Definition]

KET2: The This Old House Hour; #1120 [TV-G]; Geothermal bore holes are filled and grouted, weaving shingles around a corner for a cottage look, and installing custom PVC window trim. Plus, insulating ductwork and maintaining clothes washers and dryers. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Farming in the Black Patch; The story of a family farm in Murray, Kentucky that for generations has grown dark-fired tobacco, only common to Western Kentucky and Tennessee. The process of producing dark-fired tobacco from start to finish is explored. A Micheal Breeding MEDIA production.

KET: Doc Martin; #106 "Haemophobia" [TV-PG]; The tourist season has arrived in Portwenn. Disgruntled by the invasion of holidaymakers, Martin grimaces as he makes his way through the crowds. Then he notices an attractive woman, and stops to stare at her chest! Martin actually tries to warn the woman about the dangers of sunbathing for fear of skin cancer. [High-Definition]

KET2: Nature; #3008 "Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo" [TV-PG]; Buffalo and wolves still engage in epic life and death dramas across Wood Buffalo National Park. By getting to know a specific pack of wolves and the individuals that make up the pack, we get a sense of how these two animal species live together in what seems like a forgotten corner of the world. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Tobacco Blues; Can a good person grow tobacco? As the cigarette war rages, small-scale American tobacco farmers have been the overlooked casualties. Dynamic filmmaking duo Eren McGinnis and Christine Fugate travel across Kentucky to meet families who have been growing this crop for generations and examine how they are facing the consequences of this fuming controversy. Produced with support from the KET Fund for Independent Production.

KET: Masterpiece Classic; #4306 "Downton Abbey, Season 3 - Part 6" [TV-PG]; Change arrives in a big way for several key characters at Downton Abbey. A yearly cricket match with the village sees old scores settled and new plots hatched. [High-Definition]

KET2: Nova; #4006 "Earth from Space" [TV-G]; Data is taken from earth-observing satellites and transformed into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate web of forces that sustains life on earth. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Life; #1427 "Lincoln: "I, Too, Am A Kentuckian"" [TV-G]; In a special expanded edition of Kentucky Life, host Dave Shuffett travels from Hodgenville to Springfield, IL to Washington, DC to explore the life and career of Kentucky's most famous native son. The program examines the many Kentucky people and places that profoundly influenced Abraham Lincoln with stops at his birthplace and boyhood home near Hodgenville, the Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, the Louisville home of close friend Joshua Speed, and many other Lincoln-related sites. A 2008 KET production.