NHPTV Connections January 2015

NHPTV Connections Sunday Night Drama and Dessert Downton Abbey Season 5

The waiting and wondering will be over when the award-winning and addictive drama returns for a fifth season of intimately interlaced stories set at Downton Abbey! As Season 5 begins, it’s 1924. The United Kingdom has its first Labor Party prime minister, and the radio is the latest miracle of the age. And Downton’s traditional ways are besieged on all fronts.

Here’s what we have to look forward to this month: Old attitudes upstairs (Robert) and downstairs (Carson) get a shake-up while others change with the times more readily. Rose, who’s all about bringing in the new, strategizes about getting a radio in the house.

Meanwhile, in the romance department, Lady Mary and Lord Gillingham put their love to the test and Lord Merton is wooing. The police are making multiple visits to Downton Abbey, and Edith struggles with her secret.

There are nine episodes this season, with the Christmas special finale airing March 1st! Each episode will re-air on NHPTV PRIME and EXPLORE, and online at video.nhptv.org.

January 2015

Masterpieces, Midwives, Ministers & Munchies Could there be a better way to start the new year than with some extraordinary Masterpieces on New Hampshire Public Television? I’m not just referring to Downton Abbey and a juicy new Mystery! series called Grantchester. I’m thinking also of what’s coming in the next few months, like the entire Jewel in the Crown (this summer!), fascinating new American Experience programs like Walt Disney and Last Days of Vietnam, a new season of Call the Midwife, new cooking shows, and NOVA’s Building Wonders. And of course, Windows to the Wild has more episodes coming up in this 10th season.

Where else but NHPTV and PBS can you watch such a great line-up of terrific programs?

Our deepest thanks to members like you who appreciate high-quality television and who responded to our end-of-year fundraising requests for sustaining support. You contribute not only to a varied and inspiring lineup of programs, but to a range of educational services that have a positive impact on our Granite State communities. Thank you.

Peter Frid, NHPTV President & CEO

Premieres January 4 • Sundays at 9 PM on NHPTV PRIME

Great British Baking Show There’s a delicious new show from the Brits, featuring passionate amateur bakers competing to be named the U.K.’s best.

Cookbook author Mary Berry and artisan baker Paul Hollywood serve as judges. Together with hosts and comic foils Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, Berry and Hollywood test the competitors’ skills on cakes, breads, pastries and desserts, crowning a winner after 10 weeks of competition.

The challenges come in three categories: the Signature Bake that tests the bakers’ personality, flair and ability; the Technical Bake, when bakers are given one basic recipe and no other guidance; and the Showstopper Bake. All the recipes from the show will be posted on pbs.org/food! Two-hour premiere January 4 at 7 PM;

then Sundays at 8 PM on NHPTV PRIME

NHPTV and AARP New Hampshire have partnered on two new episodes of the Changing Aging in the Granite State series, hosted by Allison McNair. In Memory Loss/Brain Health, Dartmouth doctors talk about prevention strategies and caregivers share their stories of caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s.

January 15 at 7:30 PM on NHPTV PRIME

The Encore Entrepreneur episode focuses on individuals who want to begin an “encore” career after they retire.

January 22 at 7:30 on NHPTV PRIME

Past episodes on financial security, healthcare planning for the long term, consumer and investment fraud, and living well are available online at nhptv.org/aging.

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Program Top Picks NOVA: Sinkholes - Buried Alive

Masterpiece Mystery! Grantchester

In Tampa in 2013, a giant hole opened up under the bedroom floor of Jeffrey Bush, swallowing the 36-year-old as he slept. His body was never found. Bush was a victim of a sinkhole — a growing worldwide hazard that lurks wherever limestone and other water-soluble rocks underpin the soil. NOVA travels the globe to find out what it’s like to have the world fall from your feet and to discover why it happens.

Sidney Chambers is a young charismatic vicar in a hamlet near Cambridge in the early 1950s. He loves God and jazz, and struggles with memories of serving in WWII. The reverend becomes an amateur investigator when one of his parishioners dies under suspicious circumstances. His sleuthing accomplice is gruff, down-to-earth police inspector Geordie Keating.

What will these two crime-solving partners get into?

January 28 • 9 PM on NHPTV PRIME

Independent Lens In Rich Hill, follow three boys as they navigate the oftentreacherous road between childhood and adolescence in an economically depressed Missouri town.

And in Evolution of a Criminal, Darius Monroe tells his story of serving a sentence for robbing a bank.

Monroe returns to his childhood home and encounters the people affected by the robbery: his family, victims at the bank and his partners in crime. Darius, now 33, turns the camera on a past he deeply regrets and tries to understand how he came to make the decision he made.

January 5 & January 12 • 10 PM on NHPTV PRIME

A Path Appears

In this new documentary by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, they travel with advocates to Colombia, Haiti, Kenya, and throughout the U.S. to explore gender oppression and human rights violations. They look at the roots of gender inequality, the devastating impact of poverty and the ripple effects that follow — including sex trafficking, teen pregnancy, violence, and child slavery. Meet inspiring activists who are creating effective solutions and transforming lives. January 26 • 10 PM on NHPTV

January 18 & 25 • 10 PM on NHPTV PRIME

Billy Joel: Library of Congress Gershwin Prize This music special honors singersongwriter Billy Joel, who will receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The evening will include performances by Joel, as well as Tony Bennett, Boyz II Men, John Mellencamp and more, including a special performance by Kevin Spacey and a dance ensemble performance from Twyla Tharp’s “Movin’ Out.” Also, Michael Feinstein pays tribute to the legacy of George and Ira Gershwin.

January 2 • 10 PM on NHPTV PRIME

Antiques Roadshow Host Mark Walberg returns with the premiere of the 19th season of the PBS treasure-filled classic.

The season opens with a trip to the Big Apple for the first time in 13 years. It’s a homerun visit with the show’s largest sports memorabilia find ever! Then take a trip to Texas with a stop in Austin to talk about a personal collection donated by country music legend Willie Nelson; a spinning wheel gifted to the owner’s mother by Mahatma Gandhi, and much much more.

Mondays • 8 PM on NHPTV PRIME

For complete listings, previews and more go to nhptv.org

NHPTV Is On-Air • Online • In Your Community Windows To The Wild

American Experience

Ripley: Believe It Or Not

As season 10 continues, Will Lange, along with producer Phil Vaughn and videographer Steve Giordani, hikes Mt. Monadnock for the first time since 1985 and travels to the North Country to see how some folks explore the back-wood trails there by ATV.

Daily Hike Of Mount Monadnock

The meaning of the Abenaki word, “monadnock,” is “mountain that stands alone.” Which it certainly does: there’s not another anywhere near it. Larry Davis of Jaffrey can see Mt. Monadnock from his home.

And for 35 years, he’s spent nearly every morning hiking it. He tells host Will Lange why it’s so important to him.

January 7 at 7:30 PM on NHPTV PRIME

Ride The Wild

Will Lange travels to Coos County to visit Ride the Wild, a series of trails in New Hampshire’s North Country for off-road vehicles. While there, he discovers how ATVs and other off-road vehicles open up the outdoors to people who might not be able to explore it otherwise.

January 21 at 7:30 PM on NHPTV PRIME

The FUN CLUB for Kids!

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LeRoy Robert Ripley rose to fame during the Great Depression, transforming himself from a skinny, bucktoothed boy into an entertainer who mesmerized the nation. Over three decades the “Believe It or Not!” franchise grew into an entertainment empire. At the center of it all was Ripley, whose obsession with the odd and keen eye for the curious made him one of the richest men in the country.

January 6 at 9 PM on NHPTV PRIME

Klansville, USA

As the civil rights movement grew in the 1960s, the long-dormant Ku Klux Klan reemerged with a vengeance.

Discover why North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive southern state, saw a boom in Klan membership under the leadership of Bob Jones.

January 13 at 9 PM on NHPTV PRIME

Edison

Explore the complex alchemy that accounts for the enduring celebrity of America’s most famous inventor, gain new perspectives on the man and his milieu, and discover not only the true nature of invention, but also its role in turn-of-the-century America’s rush into the future.

January 20 at 10 PM on NHPTV PRIME

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January 2015

Downton Abbey Season 5 Is Here! Sundays at 9 PM