The original Nashville Cat...

Our August Membership Drive marches on...starting with an amazing performance piece...
In 1987, a group of A-list musicians gathered to celebrate the enormous influence of guitarist Chet Atkins on their lives and careers. Taped in Nashville just blocks from the famed Music Row, this star-packed program includes performances by Atkins with Mark Knopfler, the Everly Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Michael McDonald and a band of Music City's finest players...CHET ATKINS: CERTIFIED GUITAR PLAYER...7pm

Time for something completely different...the story of Richard Proenneke, who built a cabin by hand and set out to live a very simple life...ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS...8:30pm

Then if you've got a few minutes, learn to PLAY PIANO IN A FLASH...10pm
We're only trying to help...you're welcome.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T...

Our August Membership Drive continues with a special on Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul herself, as she returns to public television in an all new "My Music" festival of original artist Soul Hits of the 1960s plus some special 70s love ballads...7pm

On the 10th anniversary of his first public television pledge special, Dr. Wayne Dyer presents a new program, based on his newest book Excuses BeGone!In Excuses BeGone!, his goal is simple but not easy: to help viewers learn how to overcome lifetime thinking habits that keep us from maximizing our human potential.
Excuses BeGone! addresses the powerfully transformative process of HOW to change habituated ways of thinking - and move into new realms of possibility...9pm

I've seen fire and I've seen rain...

Well...it's that time again. KACV begins it's August Pledge Drive this weekend with some fantastic programs...including gospel music from Bill Gaither and the Statler Brothers, the still touring Pretenders, and singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen on Saturday beginning at 7...

Sunday features Elvis Presley, Carole King and James Taylor, and the ubiquitous Roy Orbison on Sunday evening...something for most musical tastes. We hope you bear with us if your regular program is missing...our pledge drive is designed to reach more people in the hopes of expanding our membership base. Check us out - you might find something you didn't know you liked.

Architecture is more than building...

In 1993 the late architect Samuel Mockbee started the Rural Studio, a design/build architecture program, in which students create striking architecture for impoverished communities in rural Alabama. Guided by never-before-seen interviews with Mockbee, this film shows how a group of students use their creativity, ingenuity and compassion to craft a home for their charismatic, impoverished client. Interviews with Mockbee's peers and scenes with those he's influenced infuse the film with a larger discussion of architecture's role in issues of poverty, class, race, education, social change and citizenship...CITIZEN ARCHITECT: SAMUEL MOCKBEE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RURAL STUDIO...8pm

GLOBETREKKER goes to Kathmandu and walks the Everest Highway...9pm

Some enchanted evening...

Tonight on KACV, a very special treat...
Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic tale of love and prejudice, "South Pacific", revived in its original glory by Lincoln Center Theater...7pm

All hail the Lizard King...

They look like dragons. Armed with sharp teeth, tearing claws and a whip-like tail, these fearsome creatures are not only powerful, they're also smart. Top predators with intelligence, who learn as they hunt, and who use their brain to track down prey...they are the largest lizards still walking the planet, the monitor lizards -- the Lizard Kings...NOVA - 7pm

The last day in the Gulf is the last chance to drop bombs before the Nimitz heads home. The jets take off, laden with ordnance, and return hours later, still carrying the same bombs. In the middle of flight operations, a storm arises in the South Indian Ocean. The deck pitches violently, turning the already dangerous task of landing on the carrier into a nail-biting, heart-pounding drama...CARRIER - 9pm

America's Scultor...

Tonight ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is in Milwaukee. looking at a 1952 Fender guitar...7pm

During a career that spanned three decades, Augustus Saint-Gaudens created nearly 150 works of art, including a number of major public monuments to heroes of the Civil War. The story of his personal life is woven around in-depth studies of five of his major works of art, including the contemplative Standing Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago; the moving Shaw Memorial on Boston Common; the powerful Sherman Monument in Central Park; the serene Diana in the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the stirring Adams Memorial in Washington, DC.
AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS: MASTER OF AMERICAN SCULTURE...9pm