Friday 3/15/2013

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Noon EST

KET: GED Connection; #110 "The GED Essay" [TV-G]; GED graduates describe test day and provide tips on writing the GED essay.

KET2: Caillou; #505 "Big Time Caillou" [TV-Y]; Caillou's older friend Andre is coming over to play, but Caillou is a little worried that his toys are too 'little kid-ish." When Mommy gets a new pair of specs, Caillou wants glasses too. Caillou wants to learn how to dance for Miss Martin's dance party. [High-Definition]

KETKY: One to One with Bill Goodman; #507 "Michael McCall"; Michael McCall is the president of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, overseeing 16 colleges and 68 campuses serving over 100,000 students. He will discuss how KCTCS is aiding the state with problems of unemployment, low graduation rates, and what President Obama meant when he said, "Community colleges are an undervalued asset in our country." A 2010 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

12:30 pm

KET: Pre-GED Connection; #110 "Drama" [TV-G]; Explores the elements of drama through a play written by an adult learner and goes behind the scenes to see how the written word is translated to the stage.

KET2: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood; #112 "Fruit Picking Day/Daniel Is Big Enough to Help Dad" [TV-Y]; Prince Wednesday is upset because his big brother Prince Tuesday can pick the highest fruit off the tree branches, but he can't. Dad Tiger shows Daniel just the right tools he can use to help him build a playhouse. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Bywords; #329 "Dr. Cliff Robertson"; Dr. Cliff Robertson, safe food advocate, and author of the book, Health Explosion. A 1984 KET production.

1:00

KET: Super Why!; #137 "The Three Feathers" [TV-Y]; Pig and his brothers are building a train set but Pig's negative attitude has stopped him in his tracks! The Super Readers encounter a young prince about to embark on a race to find a magic carpet! The only problem is the prince doesn't think he can do it! As the Super Readers journey towards the magic carpet, they wonder if they'll be able to change the prince'soutlook. [High-Definition]

KET2: Lidia's Italy In America; #211 "Italian American Sandwiches #2" [TV-G]; Lidia prepares Baltimore's Italian American Civic Club sandwich; a Primanti sandwich; and a prosciutto, scallion, and egg Sandwich. [High-Definition]

KETKY: News Quiz; #2823 [TV-G]; [High-Definition] Watch Online

1:15

KETKY: Telling Tales; #114 "Mutsmag"; The story of a humble gift and a brave little girl, told by Appalachian storyteller Anndrena Belcher.

1:30

KET: Dinosaur Train; #220 "Arnie Rides The Flatcar/Old Reliable" [TV-Y]; Buddy, Tiny, and Mom visit their very large sauropod friend, Arnie Argentinosaurus, and his dad. Mr. Pteranodon and Mr. Lambeosaurus take all the kids to see a field of geysers. [High-Definition]

KET2: Simply Ming; #1017 "Azores: Eduardo Reis" [TV-G]; Ming visits the Azorean island of Terceira and learns the history of a popular dish called Alcatra. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Frost Flowers; [TV-G]; A Chris Korrow documentary about frost flowers, also known as "ice flowers." These spectacular icy "blooms" occur for just a few short days a year, with magnificent displays only occurring every six years or so. Thousands of photos along with time-lapse photography and an original score help to illustrate this artistry in nature. [High-Definition]

2:00

KET: The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!; #110 "Night Lights/Go Snails Go!" [TV-Y]; The kids jump into the Thingamajigger and shrink down to visit the fireflies that live in the backyard. Nick, Sally and the Cat jump into the Thingamajigger and shrink down to go on a snail expedition! [High-Definition]

KET2: Math Basics; #103 "Many Ways To Measure"; Customary and metric units of measure; tools and instruments for measuring; the use of a calculator in learning mathematics.

KETKY: 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]

2:30

KET: Curious George; #703 "Hundley Jr./Curious George Gets Winded" [TV-Y]; Hundley is torn between looking after the lobby and caring for his new friend, a long caterpillar. Bill needs one more newspaper delivery to win the coveted Golden Pouch, but a big snowfall ruins his chances. [High-Definition]

KET2: Math Basics; #104 "Solving Problems"; A four-step process for solving problems in mathematics and in many other situations.

3:00

KET: Arthur; #1307 "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Tibble/The Secret Guardians" [TV-Y]; The Tibble Twins set out on new business venture - selling their pre-school art masterpieces to earn enough money to buy the coveted Krummy Kreepy Kastle. As their business takes off, so does their own appreciation for their art. When Arthur, Binky and Sue Ellen stumble upon a beautiful and private woodland oasis right by their homes, they vow they vow to tell no one and keep it as their secret spot. Before long, however,they start to find evidence of human habitation. [High-Definition]

KET2: Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence; #204 "Dinner Time Sizzle" [TV-G]; Joanne prepares grilled bread with tomatoes and prosciutto and sizzling shrimp with pimenton and sherry. [High-Definition]

3:30

KET: WordGirl; #513 "Dinner Or Consequences, Part 1/Dinner Or Consequences, Part 2" [TV-Y7]; Dr. Two Brains steals the city's milk and uses it and his new ray to turn the city into cheese! WordGirl has to stop Dr. Two Brains even if it means missing her family feast and having to face the consequences. [High-Definition]

KET2: Pati's Mexican Table; #205 "Mexican-Style Kids' Party" [TV-G]; Pati makes fun finger foods including crazy corn, chicken flautas, and chocolate and cajeta cupcakes. [High-Definition]

4:00

KET: Wild Kratts; #113 "Mystery of the Weird Looking Walrus" [TV-Y]; Chris and Martin are out to investigate why the walrus looks so weird, but then find out that Zach Varmitech has kidnapped an entire herd to mine precious pearls for Donita Donata's fashion line. The Wild Kratts team figures out that walrus' have incredible powers that have a lot to do with how they look. They must employ the walrus' super suction and other amazing powers against Zach to save the herd and return them back home to their Arctic domain. [High-Definition]

KET2: Connections with Renee Shaw; #812 "Susan Pope"; Renee's guest is Danville actress Susan Pope, who is touring with her one-woman play, Dreadfully White, described as a zany look at the serious subject of growing up in a violent family. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KETKY: Leadership Landscape; #106 "Kevin Crosby"

4:30

KET: The Electric Company; #307 "Spooky Summer Soiree" [TV-Y]; Everyone dresses up as animals dressed as monsters for the Spooky Summer Soiree costume party. [High-Definition]

KET2: Louisville Life; #410 "Sugar Plum Fairy Makeover/Artist Alexa King/Grawemeyer Awards/Allan Dittmer/Comedy Caravan" [TV-G]; Go behind-the-scenes as The Louisville Ballet unveils new sets, scenic elements, and choreography for The Brown-Forman Nutcracker; meet Versailles artist Alexa King, sculptor of the legendary horse, Barbaro, at Churchill Downs; a look at the Grawemeyer Awards and the man whose name and charity lives on through them; an interview with Allan Dittmer, executive director of the Grawemeyer Awards at the University of Louisville; and take a peek inside the legendary Comedy Caravan and its owner, Tom Sobel, who has kept the laughs coming for 22 years. A 2009 KET production hosted by Candyce Clifft. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KETKY: Kentucky Life; #1203 "Brian Maslyar/Kentucky School of Craft/Pickin' at Newton's" [TV-G]; Photographer Brian Maslyar visits the Red River Gorge and offers pointers for taking better nature photos. The Kentucky School of Craft in Hindman teaches crafts and business skills as part of an ambitious community development effort. Joe Cissell meets host Dave Shuffett at a country store near Bardstown for some old-time guitar picking. A 2006 KET production. Watch Online

5:00

KET: BBC World News America; #17074 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KET2: Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman; #307 "There's Food Safety and Then There's Food Safety" [TV-Y]; Ruff is thrilled to find a tortilla chip that looks exactly like him. Meanwhile, Grandma Ruffman is trying to figure out how to protect a cake she wants to mail. So Ruff sends Harsha, Noel, and Sam to build a foolproof structure that can protect his chip and Grandma Ruffman's cake. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Louisville's Own Ali; Filmmaker Steve Crump takes a look at the life and times of boxing hero Muhammad Ali as seen from the perspective of his hometown. Features interviews with sportswriter Dave Kindred, radio journalist Bob Edwards, former Kentucky Gov. John Y. Brown, Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson, former state Sen. Georgia Davis Powers, and others. Watch Online

5:30

KET: Nightly Business Report; #32073 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KET2: Cyberchase; #803 "Peace, Love, and Hackerness" [TV-Y]; When Hacker destroys the Far Out Radio antenna to stop the rebooter bees' favorite music, the team has to find and measure each piece so they can replace the antenna before Cyberspace shuts down. [High-Definition]

6:00

KET: PBS NewsHour; #10585 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KET2: Easy Yoga for Arthritis with Peggy Cappy; [TV-G]; Exercise designed to address all joints which have stiffened with age or become less mobile from injury or inactivity. [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. Watch Online