Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Why you need "special" bear insurance...
Chris Morgan sets up camp alongside the largest concentration of grizzlies in the world. One guy, middle of nowhere Alaska, surrounded by wild bears. Somebody's got to do it...biologist Morgan tracks the bears progress as they feast on the riches of the season and re-establish the complex hierarchal social dynamics of bear society. Along the way, he experiences close encounters with bears, observing brutal battles among males during mating season as well as tender moments between a grizzly mom and her cubs. NATURE:BEARS OF THE LAST FRONTIER...7pm
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Someone in the U.S. gets HIV every 10 minutes...still.
Half of those are black. If Black America was a country unto itself, it would have the 16th worst epidemic in the world. "Endgame: AIDS in Black America" traces the history of the epidemic through the experiences of extraordinary individuals who tell their stories...like the 63-year-old grandmother, who married a deacon in her church and later found an HIV diagnosis tucked into his Bible...this special edition of FRONTLINE...8pm
Monday, July 9, 2012
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW's first visit to Hotlanta...
How about a collection of documents related to golf legend Bobby Jones, estimated current value of $20,000 to $25, 000, and an 1841 letter by Abraham Lincoln tagged at $80,000...7pm
Then the show moves to Madison, Wisconsin, and looks at an heirloom Art Deco charm bracelet with a possible connection to John D. Rockefeller; and an angry 1976 letter from Frank Sinatra to Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko...8pm
Then the show moves to Madison, Wisconsin, and looks at an heirloom Art Deco charm bracelet with a possible connection to John D. Rockefeller; and an angry 1976 letter from Frank Sinatra to Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko...8pm
Friday, July 6, 2012
The inside scoop on Slumdog Millionaire...
Islamic art is beautifully photographed and discussed in MIRROR OF THE
INVISIBLE WORLD...Friday at 8pm
Back by popular demand, Elvis Costello, along with Band of Heathens
returns to AUSTIN CITY LIMITS...Saturday at 10pm
Directors Danny Boyle, Jason Reitman and Ed Burns take a seat in
Austin for an examination of their films and philosophy as part of ON
STORY...Sunday at 5:30
INVISIBLE WORLD...Friday at 8pm
Back by popular demand, Elvis Costello, along with Band of Heathens
returns to AUSTIN CITY LIMITS...Saturday at 10pm
Directors Danny Boyle, Jason Reitman and Ed Burns take a seat in
Austin for an examination of their films and philosophy as part of ON
STORY...Sunday at 5:30
Thursday, July 5, 2012
The Times does Texas...
Evan Smith sits down with Jill Abramson, Executive Editor of The New
York Times...OVERHEARD...8pm
York Times...OVERHEARD...8pm
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Ripped from the morning's headlines...
FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith (College, Inc., The Madoff Affair) reveals a trail of complex deals that have contributed to a European crisis that even today threatens to sink the global economy into another slump. Almost four years after the infamous Wall Street meltdown, FRONTLINE examines how regulators have tried to fix an industry steeped in conflicts of interest, excessive risk taking and incentives to cheat. New rules and regulations are being written, but can they prevent the next crisis? MONEY, POWER AND WALL STREET...a volatile mix...9pm
Monday, July 2, 2012
A menu from the Titanic is worth what? Good Lord!
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW visits Houston to give the menu owners the bad news, and Atlantic City for a 1934 team signed baseball from the New York Yanks...7 & 8pm
"The Queen and Us" tells the story of four party guests as they savor each moment of a once-in-a-lifetime occasion...a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. At the party, only a select few guests will be presented to the queen & attendants calm the jittery nerves of the lucky ones with a crash course in royal protocol...MONARCHY: THE ROYAL FAMILY AT WORK...9pm
"The Queen and Us" tells the story of four party guests as they savor each moment of a once-in-a-lifetime occasion...a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. At the party, only a select few guests will be presented to the queen & attendants calm the jittery nerves of the lucky ones with a crash course in royal protocol...MONARCHY: THE ROYAL FAMILY AT WORK...9pm
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