January 2023 PREMIERE

Message to Our Members

In our busy family with two young daughters, PBS KIDS has been a blessing. We first introduced five-year-old Knar to Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. We were very impressed with the social and emotional lessons taught by the series, and we learned a few parenting tips from Daniel’s parents, too.

Although we do watch traditional television, we primarily consume PBS KIDS programming with the PBS KIDS App on a tablet. The app allows us to watch as many episodes of a show as we’d like – even five-year-olds like to binge watch!

Our family appreciates finding PBS KIDS in digital spaces and research shows more Nebraska families are doing the same. A new weekday afternoon schedule for Nebraska Public Media launches on Monday, Jan. 2, featuring cooking, travel, documentary, drama and arts programs. We’ll embrace the change knowing that the network’s commitment to Nebraska’s children and education remains strong. (Read more on pages 16-17.)

PBS KIDS offers so much more than 225 hours of children’s television each week. The additional educational content we’ve found online is well researched and high quality, and we

are anxious to introduce our younger daughter Yeraz to Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood in a few months.

As a parent, it’s been amazing to have Knar teach us what she’s learned. Her kindergarten teacher has commended her background knowledge, and just recently, she told us about All Souls Day – a lesson from the digital series Jelly, Ben & Pogo. We also appreciate the diversity of themes and characters. And, PBS KIDS addresses topics we can’t find elsewhere, helping our children understand current events like the pandemic.

I serve on the board of Nebraska Public Media because it provides a valuable service to everyone, including families like mine. Whether you watch online, on apps, on the dedicated 24/7 PBS KIDS channel or on Nebraska Public Media, you can trust that what you see and experience will prepare your children for school and a bright future.

SUNDAY, JAN. 1

8 a.m. Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide 10 a.m. Aging Breakthrough with Dr. Kellyann 11:30 a.m. Crane Song 1 p.m. Miss Scarlet and The Duke on Masterpiece Season 2, Ep. 1 2:15 p.m. Miss Scarlet and The Duke on Masterpiece Season 2, Ep. 2 3:30 p.m. Miss Scarlet and The Duke on Masterpiece Season 2, Ep. 3 4:45 p.m. Miss Scarlet and The Duke on Masterpiece Season 2, Ep. 4 6 p.m. Miss Scarlet and The Duke on Masterpiece Season 2, Ep. 5 7:15 p.m. Miss Scarlet and The Duke on Masterpiece Season 2, Ep. 6 8:30 p.m. All Creatures Great and Small: The Next Chapter

Watch on Nebraska Public Media All times CT

ON THE COVER All Creatures Great and Small Sunday, Jan. 8

Begin 2023 with a few favorite programs, plus a Masterpiece marathon of Miss Scarlet and The Duke. It’s your chance to catch-up on the scintillating series before the Season 3 premiere on Sunday, Jan. 8. Plus, go behind-the-scenes of the beloved series All Creatures Great and Small. SEASON 3 PREMIERE

8 p.m. CT on Nebraska Public Media Wedding bells chime and animal ailments abound in the highly-anticipated new season!

Miss Scarlet and The Duke on Masterpiece Marathon (continues)

Miss Scarlet and The Duke on Masterpiece (Ep. 2) Eliza bumps into a childhood contact.

Nature: The Alps: Winter's Fortress The bi er cold ecosystems of the Alps

All Creatures Great and Small on Masterpiece (Ep. 2) James and Helen are married.

Finding Your Roots: Salem's Lot Claire Danes and Je Daniels

Antiques Roadshow: Filoli (Hour 3) See more treasures at a California estate Antiques Roadshow: Fort Worth, (Hour 3) History from the Lone Star State

Life on the Line Legacy of LoveA Bridge to Justice Stories From the Stage

Finding Your Roots: Secret Lives Comedians Carol Burne and Niecy Nash

Secrets of the Dead: The Caravaggio Heist A masterpiece stolen in 1984

American Experience: Zora Neale Hurston The key figure of the Harlem Renaissance >>

Searching: Our Quest For Meaning in the Age of Science

Nature: Wildheart Long-lived forest keeper of Scotland's Highland landscape

Radon Awareness

Independent Lens: The Big Payback A rookie alderwoman supports a tax-funded reparations bill.

Beyond the Elements on NOVA: Indestructible Indestructible versions of glass, rubber and plastic What

Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators A farmer is violently assaulted.

America ReFramed: The Place That Makes Us A new future for Youngstown, Ohio Employment Matters Too

Washington Week News roundtable Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan

Prime Suspect: Tennison on Masterpiece (Pt. 3) Jane faces personal and professional realities. >>

American Experience: Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space The influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

Places to Love

Father Brown A fugitive takes sanctuary in St. Mary's.

Samantha Brown's Places to Love

As Time Goes By Keeping Up Appearances

Independent Lens: The Big Payback A rookie alderwoman supports a tax-funded reparations bill. Legacy of Love

Cra in America

The Best of the Joy of Painting The Best of the Joy of Painting

Miss Scarlet and The Duke on Masterpiece (Ep. 3) Eliza trails a notorious con man.

Nature: Wildheart Scotland’s legendary and magnificent Scots pine tree

All Creatures Great and Small on Masterpiece (Ep. 3) Siegfried's First World War experiences

Finding Your Roots: Secret Lives Carol Burne and Niecy Nash

Antiques Roadshow: Santa Fe's Museum Hill (Hour 1) New Mexico treasures Antiques Roadshow: Indianapolis, (Hour 1) Treasures in Indiana's capital city

Independent Lens: A Reckoning in Boston A filmmaker explores violence, racism and gentrification in Boston.

Finding Your Roots: Long Way From Home Jamie Chung and Cyndi Lauper

Secrets of the Dead: World War Speed German soldiers and methamphetamines

Nature: Soul of the Ocean Underwater life co-exists out of necessity

Good, Healthy Life

Stories From the Stage

American Masters: Roberta Flack The icon’s rise to stardom >>

Searching: Our Quest For Meaning in the Age of Science (Pt. 2) key findings of modern science

Beyond the Elements on NOVA: Life The chemistry that makes humans

Independent Lens: No Straight Lines Queer comic artists and their uncensored commentary on LGBTQ+ life

America ReFramed: The Area Black families expelled from their Chicago homes.

POV: Grit A politically active teen galvanizes neighbors a er a tsunami.

Next at the Kennedy Center Hip Hop legends The Roots give an electrifying performance.

Irma: My Life in Music (6 p.m.)

American Masters: Roberta Flack Follow the music icon from a piano lounge through her rise to stardom.

Independent Lens: No Straight Lines Queer comic artists and their uncensored commentary on LGBTQ+ life

in America

A Bridge to Justice

The Best of the Joy of Painting The Best of the Joy of Painting

Father Brown Canon Fox pays a visit to Father Brown. As Time Goes By Keeping Up Appearances

Music, dance, drama and much more will mark this milestone. Since it premiered in 1972 on PBS, this preeminent performing arts series has provided an unparalleled showcase of the best in all genres of the performing arts, serving as America’s most prestigious and enduring broadcaster of cultural programming.

THURSDAYS

Beginning Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. CT on

Nebraska Public Media

Our What If… series explores innovation, creativity, invention and discovery. The stories start with simple questions and end with revolutionary answers. New episodes take you from the Sandhills to our cities. Envision the future of Nebraska ranches, meet Oglala Lakota artists at work in a transformed local bar that was notorious for fueling alcoholism, and catch up with rural and urban kids merging their worlds as they zipline, skateboard and create beats.

Host Mike Tobias packs each episode with stories about Nebraskans who draw their inspiration from outside the lines.

INNOVATOR INSIGHTS

Kids ask the questions in the new Innovator Insights educational videos. The media collection, developed with teacher input, is a classroom resource with age-appropriate content for fourthgraders and high school students.

At Meadows Elementary in Ralston and Ralston High School, our What If… host and crew recorded curious kids inquiring about things like risk taking, collaboration, innovation, and learning from failure and success.

“We hope kids will feel empowered to keep asking questions and see their own potential as future innovators,” said Jessica Mitchell-McCollough, Nebraska Public Media’s director of education. The entire collection of Innovator Insights is available in English and with Spanish subtitles, along with resources for teachers.

VISIT

pbslearningmedia.org

STORIES FROM THE STATEHOUSE

Gavel-to-gavel television coverage, plus livestreaming from the floor and more than a dozen state government venues.

A Page-Turning Podcast for 2023

If spending less time looking at screens is one of your New Year’s resolutions, NPR’s Book of the Day podcast could turn your scrolling into page turning.

Popular titles can help you engage with the big questions of our times – or temporarily escape from them –with authors who speak to you, all genres, mood and writing styles included.

Catch today’s great books in 15 minutes or less when you download the Book of the Day podcast! npr.org/podcasts

Digital Shi Leads to Weekday TV Schedule Change

Research shows that more and more families find our PBS KIDS programs and characters anytime, anywhere in digital spaces – watching on smart devices and the internet, as well as on traditional television.

Our PBS KIDS programs prepare kids for school and lead them to a bright future, but as more Nebraskans watch on their own schedule, we are changing ours.

Beginning Jan. 2, we will end our weekday block of PBS KIDS programs on Nebraska Public Media at 3 p.m. CT and a new schedule of programming will fill the remainder of the afternoon. 3 p.m. CT – Cooking, travel and lifestyle programs 4 – 6 p.m. CT – Local and PBS documentaries, drama and arts programs

Education continues to be a guiding pillar for public media. Teachers, parents and caregivers can access free, researchbased PBS KIDS television programs that are accessible, equitable and educational. For nearly 70 years, we have served the state with education and entertainment.

NAWAZ AND BENNETT NAMED CO-ANCHORS

Get perspective from a PBS KIDS parent on page 2!

PBS

chief

PBS NewsHour beginning Monday, Jan. 2. The pair succeeds

who has anchored the nightly news broadcast since 2016. Woodruff previously co-anchored alongside the late Gwen Ifill. Nawaz received Peabody Awards for her reporting on Jan. 6, 2021, and global plastic pollution. She has been a substitute anchor since she joined PBS NewsHour in 2018. Nawaz began her journalism career at ABC News just weeks before September 11, 2001. Bennett has reported from the White House under three presidents. He joined PBS NewsHour in 2022 from NBC News. Bennett was an editor for NPR’s Weekend Edition and later reported on Congress and the White House. He is an Edward R. Murrow Award recipient. Woodruff has announced the launch of a new project, Judy Woodru Presents: America at a Crossroads Weekdays at 6 p.m. CT on Nebraska Public Media & 9 p.m. CT on World

NewsHour

correspondent Amna Nawaz and chief Washington correspondent and PBS News Weekend anchor Geoff Bennett will co-anchor

Judy Woodruff,

Zora Neale Hurston

Tuesday, Jan. 17

8 p.m. CT on Nebraska Public Media

The influential author’s groundbreaking anthropological work challenged assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that defined the field in the 19th century.

Next at the Kennedy Center: The Roots Residency

Friday, Jan. 27

8 p.m. CT on Nebraska Public Media

The Hip Hop legends give an electrifying performance, inspiring others and exploring the depths of their creative potential.

A piano teacher becomes one of the most influential singers in American music.

Roberta Flack

Tuesday, Jan. 24 8 p.m. CT on Nebraska Public Media

She gave voice to a global soundtrack of beauty and pain, love and anguish, hope and struggle. Illuminated through interviews with Reverend Jesse Jackson, Clint Eastwood, Yoko Ono and others, follow Flack’s artistry, life and triumphs over racism and sexism.

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

Tuesdays beginnng Jan. 31 8 p.m. CT on Nebraska Public Media

Those who were there at the beginning share the origins of a bold and revolutionary art form that created a provocative narrative of America.

NEW YEAR RINGS IN NEW DRAMA

Season 3

Sundays beginning Jan. 8 at 7 p.m. Eliza struggles to build her detective agency and juggles her relationship with The Duke.

LUCY WORSLEY'S Royal Myths & Secrets

Monday, Jan. 2 at 9 p.m. CT on Nebraska Public Media

In beautiful palaces and castles and on dramatic battlefields, Worsley investigates how Royal history mixes fact, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.

PRIME SUSPECT: TENNISON

Fridays beginning Jan. 6 at 8 p.m.

In three riveting 90-minute episodes, a rookie police officer becomes a savvy crime fighter.

Season 3

Sundays beginning Jan. 8 at 8 p.m.

It’s spring 1939 in the Yorkshire Dales as James anticipates marriage, the business and war.

DID YOU KNOW?

After being delayed by the pandemic, filming is finally underway in Northern Ireland for a second season of World on Fire. The Masterpiece drama follows ordinary citizens as World War II throws their lives into chaos.

Donors Call Second Radio Channel First-Rate

The Schimeks met on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Kearney and after graduation taught in Colorado and Hastings before moving to Lincoln in 1971.

Herb represented teachers for 40 years as a lobbyist for the Nebraska State Education Association and DiAnna represented the 27th district in the Nebraska Legislature for 20 years. Herb also served six years as the chair of the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission.

Herb Schimek fondly recalls holding one of his two young sons on his lap as they watched some of the first episodes of Sesame Street when it premiered in 1969. It was one of his first experiences with the network –one he would eventually help expand.

“We drafted the public radio bill in my office to establish a statewide network when Jack McBride, then the general manager, came up with the idea to add radio transmitters to the television towers,” Herb recalled.

Many years and many advances in technology later, Herb and his wife DiAnna discovered the network’s HD2 News/Jazz radio channel. “I went out and bought an HD radio so I could hear it,” he said. “We enjoy the variety of programs not heard on the FM radio channel.”

“Both of our car radios are also permanently set to the HD2 channel,” added DiAnna. “The programs are excellent!”

The couple watches public television, too, naming PBS NewsHour, American Experience and Finding Your Roots as favorites. Every Sunday evening, Herb explains the couple is ‘glued’ to their television. “We’ve been watching three Masterpiece programs every week. It’s been glorious!” said DiAnna.

After years of making annual gifts, the retired couple designed a specific plan to support the network in a bigger way–using part of their IRA required minimum distribution. “We need to think about the future. We get so much enjoyment from public media and it means a lot to us. For many older people it can be a good friend,” said DiAnna, who explained they watched many cooking and travel programs during the pandemic. “Public media has made itself almost indispensable, but it still takes support from everyone,” said Herb.