PROGRAM LISTINGS January 15-21, 2012

Arts, Drama, Culture

MASTERPIECE CLASSIC
Downton Abbey Season 2
Part 2 of 7
Sun., Jan. 15, 8:00 pm
New
The Emmy-winning series resumes the story of aristocrats and servants of Downton Abbey during the tumultuous World War I era. The series stars Dame Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern and Hugh Bonneville, as well as a drawing room full of new actors, portraying the loves, feuds and sacrifices of a glittering culture thrown into crisis.

Part 2 of 7: Downton is turned into a convalescent home with Thomas in charge. Meanwhile, Lavinia and Sir Richard's secret comes out, Anna tracks down Bates and Branson seizes his chance to strike a blow for Ireland.

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!
Sherlock: A Study in Pink
Sun., Jan. 15, 9:00 pm
Encore
When an unidentified woman, dressed all in pink, turns up murdered in an abandoned building, Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) must use the science of deduction to catch the killer. Martin Freeman also stars as John Watson.

NA MELE: TRADITIONS IN HAWAIIAN SONG
Raiatea Helm
Mon., Jan. 16, 7:30 pm
Encore
Raiatea Helm is joined by dad Zachary Helm, Jack Ofoia, Casey Olsen, Aaron Sala and dancer Nani Dudoit for a performance in the PBS Hawaii studio. In between songs Raiatea talks about her influences, recordings and responsibilities as a Hawaiian artist.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
Tulsa, OK, Part 3 of 3
Mon., Jan. 16, 8:00 pm
New
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW host Mark L. Walberg joins appraiser Eric Silver at the Philbrook Museum of Art to look at seemingly everyday housewares, appliances and electronics that were transformed into stunning functional art by 20th-century industrial designers. Highlights include an 1826 English gadget cane, equipped with both a pistol and a telescope; a vibrant 1931 Oscar Mayer in-store display; and a circa 1600 Ming Dynasty cast bronze guardian figure, valued at $70,000-$100,000.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
Tampa, FL, Part 3 of 3
Mon., Jan. 16, 9:00 pm
Encore
Host Mark Walberg steps right up to the Ringling Circus Museum in Sarasota, Florida, where appraisers Noel Barrett and Nicholas Lowry amaze and astound with displays of circus toys and posters. Back at the Tampa Convention Center, appraisers juggle an array of treasures, including a 1750s classic black walnut Philadelphia dressing table; a 1900s Tabriz carpet woven in the classical style of the late 16th and early 17th centuries; and a painting by acclaimed 19th-century marine artist James E. Buttersworth that could draw $80,000 to $100,000 at auction.

IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE
A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement
Mon., Jan. 16, 10:00 pm
Encore
From 2010: President and Mrs. Obama host a concert in the White House East Room in honor of Black History Month. The music special will include Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, John Mellencamp, Smokey Robinson, Seal, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Yolanda Adams, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon and the Howard University Choir. Morgan Freeman and Queen Latifah host.

LONG STORY SHORT WITH LESLIE WILCOX
Lawrence Tseu
Tues., Jan. 17, 7:30 pm
New
Leslie Wilcox talks story with Lawrence Tseu, a nationally recognized Honolulu dentist and philanthropist. As a boy who grew up poor in Kalihi, Lawrence shined shoes and sold newspapers to pay for his tuition at St. Louis. Dr. Tseu talks about the joys and struggles of growing up in a hardscrabble neighborhood and his journey to dentistry.

This program is available in high-definition and will be rebroadcast on Wed., Jan. 18 at 11:00 pm and Sun. Jan. 22, at 4:00 pm.

LEAHEY & LEAHEY
Wed., Jan. 18, 7:30 pm
New
Jim and Kanoa Leahey, Hawaii's father and son sports reporting duo, prove that the liveliest discussions happen with family and friends at the kitchen table. Join them as they talk story with special guests about "sports and other living things."

This program is available in high-definition and will be rebroadcast on Wed., Jan. 18, at 11:30 pm and Sun., Jan. 22, at 3:30 pm.

PBS HAWAII PRESENTS
Pidgin: The Voice of Hawaii
Thurs., Jan. 19, 9:00 pm
Encore
Born on sugar plantations and spoken by more than half of Hawaii's population, the Pidgin language - part English, part Hawaiian, with influences from other languages - captures the essence of multi-ethnic Hawaii. PIDGIN: THE VOICE OF HAWAII profiles this working-class language from its rise as plantation jargon to its status as a source of island identity and pride. The film draws on a variety of sources, including archival, academic and other expert commentary, and man-on-the-street interviews and performances to shed light on this colorful language.

GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET
Anna Bolena
Fri. Jan. 20, 9:00 pm
New
Anna Netrebko opens the new Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera's greatest mad scenes in this Met premiere production by David McVicar. Ekaterina Gubanova performs the role of her rival, Jane Seymour; Ildar Abdrazakov sings Henry VIII and Marco Armiliato conducts.

KIMCHI CHRONICLES
The Street Food Chronicles
Sat., Jan. 21, 5:30 pm
Encore
As it is across the entire continent of Asia, street food is hugely popular in Korea and many of the most beloved dishes in the country come from street carts and stands. In this episode, Marja and Jean-Georges travel all over the peninsula eating street food, including hoddeok, sweet pancakes filled with peanuts and sugar, and "Dragon's Beard," a candy made of stretched honey and nuts. At home, Marja makes her version of bindaddeok, her signature take on a simple pancake made of freshly ground mung beans shallow-fried until browned and crisp. This episode also features Marja's recipe for buddae jjigae, a soup that doubles as a hangover cure.

BURT WOLF: TRAVELS & TRADITIONS
Cruising the Rivers of Europe: Amsterdam to Cologne
Sat., Jan. 21, 7:00 pm
New
During the past decade, cruising the great rivers of Europe has become one of the most popular vacations for American tourists. In this program, Burt visits Amsterdam, tours a museum dedicated to the history of women's handbags and sails along the Rhine to Cologne.

INTERNATIONAL DANCESPORT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010
The World Ten Dance Championships
Sat., Jan. 21, 8:00 pm
New
INTERNATIONAL DANCESPORT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010 is a three-part series highlighting the year's championship competitions. Art, entertainment and sport are combined to create DanceSport - the flamboyant spectacle that continues to gather momentum on an international level. Top dancers from all over the world compete for prestigious titles in the three main ballroom dancing disciplines: Latin, Standard and World Ten.

The World Ten is comprised of the waltz, slow foxtrot, tango, Viennese waltz, quickstep, cha-cha, samba, rumba, paso doble and jive.

The Renaissance of Mata Ortiz
Sat., Jan. 21, 9:00 pm
New
The amazing story of how an American adventurer and a brilliant self-taught Mexican artist transformed a dying desert village into a home for world-class ceramics is told in this heart-warming and beautiful documentary.

When Spencer MacCallum walked into a second-hand store in Deming, New Mexico, in 1976 and bought three pieces of pottery, he had no idea that he was about to embark on a journey that would lead to the revival of an ancient art form. Finding his way to Mata Ortiz, Mexico, MacCallum partnered with self-taught artist Juan Quezada and slowly they created an industry that today is known world-wide not only for its interpretations of a centuries-old style of ceramics, but for stunning post-modern works as well.

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS
The Head and The Heart/Gomez
Sat., Jan. 21, 11:00 pm
New
Fresh and seasoned indie rock hits the ACL stage with The Head and The Heart and Gomez. Seattle's The Head and The Heart performs tunes from its self-titled debut LP. British veterans Gomez follow with their eclectic modern rock.

Public Affairs

MOYERS & COMPANY
Sun., Jan. 15, 5:00 pm
New
Bill Moyers returns to public television with MOYERS & COMPANY, a weekly hour of compelling and vital con­versation about life and the state of American democracy, featuring some of the best thinkers of our time. A range of scholars, artists, activists, scientists, philosophers and newsmakers bring context, insight and meaning to important topics. The series will also occasionally include Moyers' own timely and penetrating essays on society and government. In a multimedia marketplace saturated with shallow sound bites and partisan name-calling, MOYERS & COMPANY digs deeper. As the Los Angeles Times put it in 2010, "No one on television has centralized the discussion of ideas as much as Moyers... He not only gives a forum to unusual thinkers, he is truly interested in what they have to say and who they are because he believes their ideas really matter."

FRONTLINE
Nuclear Aftershocks
Tues., Jan. 17, 10:00 pm
New
It's been almost a year since a devastating earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, leaving the country's once-popular energy program in shambles. In response, Germany decided to abandon nuclear energy entirely. Should the U.S. follow suit? FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O'Brien examines the implications of the Fukushima accident for U.S. nuclear safety, and asks how this disaster will affect the future of nuclear energy around the world. In particular, he visits one emerging battleground: the controversial relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear plant, located only 38 miles from Manhattan. What lessons can be learned from the disaster in Japan?

HIKI NŌ: The Nation's First Statewide Student News Network
Thurs., Jan. 19, 7:30 pm
Encore
Students from Waimea High School on Kauai host this week's edition of HIKI NŌ. In this episode, Kamehameha Schools - Maui students provide an update on their story about a Haiku couple's animal sanctuary. Also, Mid-Pacific Institute students on Oahu show how local graffiti artists are transforming a stigmatized symbol of urban blight into an empowering and culturally relevant art form.

Other featured schools in this episode are: Hawaii Academy of Arts & Science (Hawaii Island); Kihei Charter School (Maui); and Campbell High, Le Jardin Academy, Nanakuli High and Intermediate and Waipahu Intermediate (Oahu).

This HIKI NŌ newscast encores Saturday, Jan. 21 at 12:30 pm and Sunday, Jan. 22 at 3:00 pm. You may also view this newscast and past episodes on our website, www.pbshawaii.org/hikino

INSIGHTS ON PBS HAWAII
2012 Legislative Preview
Thurs., Jan. 19, 8:00 pm
New
On the next INSIGHTS, Dan Boylan and guests take a look at some of the political, social and economic issues that will make their way to the state house and senate this legislative session. The harsh reality of balancing the state budget continues to be a priority. We'll hear from Hawaii legislative leaders on how they plan to approach the tasks and decisions facing them.

Scheduled guests include: Blake Oshiro, Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Neil Abercrombie; Calvin Say, State House Speaker; Shan Tsutsui, State Senate President; and Gene Ward, State House Minority Leader.

We want to hear from you! Your questions and comments are welcome via phone, email, Twitter or live blogging. You may also email your questions ahead of time to insights@pbshawaii.org

WASHINGTON WEEK
Fri., Jan. 20, 7:30 pm
New
For 40 years, WASHINGTON WEEK has delivered the most interesting conversation of the week. The program, hosted by Gwen Ifill, is the longest-running public affairs program on PBS and features a group of journalists participating in roundtable discussion of major news events.

NEED TO KNOW
Fri., Jan. 20, 8:00 pm
New
NEED TO KNOW is a cross-media news and public affairs magazine that culls stories from the best of the week's online reporting, culminating in a one-hour on-air broadcast every Friday night on PBS. The program features documentary-style reports, short features, studio-based interviews and covers five primary news beats: the economy, the environment and energy, health, national security and culture.

THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP
Fri., Jan. 20, 8:30 pm
New
THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP is an unscripted forum featuring some of the greatest political analysts in the nation.

Science and Nature

NATURE
Broken Tail: A Tiger's Last Journey
Wed., Jan. 18, 8:00 pm
Encore
Irish cameraman Colin Stafford-Johnson spent almost 600 days filming Broken Tail and his family for some of the finest tiger documentaries ever made. Broken Tail was the most charismatic tiger cub ever seen in Ranthambore, one of India's best protected tiger reserves. But suddenly and without warning, Broken Tail abandoned his sanctuary and went on the run moving through farmland and scrub until he was killed by a train nearly 200 miles from his home. To track Broken Tail's incredible journey, Colin and his soundman Salim retrace the tiger's path and piece together the cub's last days - and through his story reveal the fate of the few surviving tigers in India.

NOVA
3D Spies of WWII
Wed., Jan. 18, 9:00 pm
New
During World War II, Hitler's scientists developed terrifying new weapons of mass destruction. Alarmed by rumors about advanced rockets and missiles, Allied intelligence recruited a team of brilliant minds from British universities and Hollywood studios to a country house near London. Here, they secretly pored over millions of air photos shot at great risk over German territory by specially converted, high-flying Spitfires. Peering at the photos through 3D stereoscopes, the team spotted telltale clues that revealed hidden Nazi rocket bases. The photos led to devastating Allied bombing raids that were crucial setbacks to the German rocket program and helped ensure the success of the D-Day landings. With 3D graphics that recreate exactly what the photo spies saw, NOVA tells the suspenseful, previously untold story of air photo intelligence that played a vital role in defeating Hitler.

INSIDE NATURE'S GIANTS
Sperm Whale
Wed., Jan. 18, 10:00 pm
New
Veterinary scientist Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Dr. Joy Reidenberg dissect a sperm whale's enormous organs to reveal the secrets of this 45-foot deep-sea giant, which stranded itself and died on Pegwell Bay, Kent, England. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, marveling at the gigantic teeth that have evolved in the lower jaw of a sperm whale, digs out his copy of the King James Bible for a reading about Leviathan from the Book of Job. Biologist Simon Watt tracks whales in the Azores with a modern-day Jonah, Malcolm Clarke, who shows him the huge number of squid beaks in a whale's stomach.

History

ANGLE OF ATTACK
Part 2 of 2
Sun., Jan. 15, 7:00 pm and Mon., Jan. 16, 11:00 pm
New
This series chronicles the 100-year history of naval aviation - from wobbly gliders and the first shipboard landing in 1911 to modern supersonic jets and unmanned aerial vehicles. The program deftly interweaves archival footage, interviews with historical and military experts, contemporary footage of cutting-edge aircraft and insights from today's fighter pilots in the Marine Corps and Navy.

The second part begins with the potential demise of naval aviation, as many in the military establishment promote nuclear weapons and pronounce carrier aviation obsolete. Korea, and later Vietnam, offer a startling reminder of the utility of naval aviation, and undermine the post-World War II conviction that the U.S. would fight all of its wars with nuclear weapons. The episode concludes by exploring the technological evolutions like GPS-guided weapons that continue to transform the field. Interviews and vivid archival footage from Afghanistan and Iraq highlight the new moral challenges of warfare today.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Custer's Last Stand
Tues., Jan. 17, 8:00 pm
New
This biography of one of the most charismatic and con­tradictory American leaders of the 19th century takes viewers on a journey from Custer's memorable charge at Gettysburg, which turned the tide of the battle, to his lonely death on the windswept plains of the West. Along the way, view­ers learn how, time and time again, the supremely ambitious son of a blacksmith ricocheted from triumph to disaster, from battlefield heroism to impetuous escapade. In the end, Custer's reputation was saved by the wife he adored, who almost single-handedly turned the Battle of the Little Bighorn into one of the most iconic events in American history and mythologized Custer's role, turning it into a tale of heroic sacrifice.

INDEPENDENT LENS
Have You Heard From Johannesburg?: From Selma to Soweto
Thurs., Jan. 19, 10:00 pm
New
Filmed throughout the world over the course of more than ten years, this five-part series is the definitive cinematic history of the worldwide effort to destroy South African apartheid. A story that has never been told in any medium before and featuring interviews with dozens of the major players, this formidable accomplishment is anything but dry and academic: it's a lively, tension-filled, heartrending and ultimately thrilling portrait of an unprecedented global movement that forever changed a nation and the world.

From Selma to Soweto: Only a decade removed from the height of its own civil rights movement, the United States becomes a key battleground as African Americans lead a grassroots movement to force the United States to reverse its policies toward South Africa.

INDEPENDENT LENS
Have You Heard From Johannesburg?: The Bottom Line
Thurs., Jan. 19, 11:00 pm
New
The Bottom Line: Anti-apartheid demonstrators find that the most effective tactic in globalizing the fight against apartheid is the grassroots boycott and divestment campaign which targeted Western corporations doing business with the South African regime.

Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem
Sat., Jan. 21, 10:00 pm
New
Narrated by actress Danica McKellar, this film presents the inspiring life story of the pioneering American mathematician Julia Robinson (1919-1985) and charts her major contribution to solving one of the 20th century's most vexing mathematical questions - Hilbert's Tenth. The documentary is pieced together by a wide array of archival footage, stills and recordings, recollections from other mathematicians - including the three others responsible for solving H10 - and warm reminiscences by her sister/biographer, Constance Reid.