Programming News:
This week marks the unofficial launch of the new television season for many PBS series.
Tonight at 8, American Masters looks back at the life of famed director Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire).
On Tuesday at 7, NOVA looks at spying astronauts and we rebroadcast our award-winning documentary Uncle Earl about Earl K. Long at 10.
On Wednesday, Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook looks at the origin of the memorable music created in the United States. At 8, Sir Patrick Stewart has the lead role in a new production of Macbeth on Great Performances.
On Thursday at 7, Pan Fried Quail is on the menu for a new episode of After the Hunt with Chef John Folse at 7.
On Sunday at 8, Sir Kenneth Branagh is back as the troubled Swedish detective for a new series of Wallander on Masterpiece Mystery!
LPB ART AND TRAVEL AUCTION
Online bidding is now open for the LPB Art & Travel Auction on the LPB website. We have some great art donated by over 100 Louisiana artists along with some great vacations and other items. If you see something you really like, you have the option to "Buy It Now" at the price specified. The bidding ends on Sunday, October 24 with a live show on LPB from 5 to 8PM. We kicked the auction off in style Friday at the Louisiana State Museum with LPB Art Rocks! Thanks to Heirloom Cuisine for providing the food and spirits and to Fleur du Jour for the floral arrangements.
LPB AND THREE LOUISIANA PUBLIC RADIO STATIONS TAKE PART IN TWO NEW JOURNALISM INITIATIVES
LPB, KEDM-FM in Monroe, WWNO-FM in New Orleans and KRVS-FM in Lafayette are taking part in two new journalism initiatives funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
LPB and KEDM are participating in a new Local Journalism Center for the Southern Region headed by Georgia Public Broadcasting to increase local reporting about education in the South, while LPB, WWNO and KRVS are part of part of a Gulf South Consortium to continue coverage about the long-term environmental, economic and social effects of the Deep Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Southern Regional Education Desk participants include Alabama Public Television, WBHM-FM, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WNPT-TV in Nashville, Tennessee, and WUOT-FM. The LJC will create multimedia, multiplatform content on and raise awareness of the unique, long-standing education challenges facing the South. In addition to reporting and producing broadcast content, the partner stations will create an interactive website and web modules that will distribute and curate content, and undertake community engagement activities through events, partnerships and social media..
LPB, WWNO and KRVS are part of a $538,000 CPB grant that will be administered by LPB to expand reporting on the aftermath of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill. Public media stations in the region have responded to the crisis with in-depth reporting for their own communities and for national audiences via NPR and PBS programs. The grant will help LPB create a Gulf Coast Consortium (GCC) to support stations’ local journalism efforts to cover the crisis and to facilitate sharing of content among stations for the next year.
The GCC will create and share content for broadcast and digital distribution and will also conduct community engagement activities such as town hall meetings. LPB will administer the grant, coordinate content and make sub-grants to other producing stations. Besides the Louisiana stations, other participants include Alabama Public Television; Mississippi Public Broadcasting; WEDU-TV/FM, Tampa, FL; WUSF-TV/FM, Tampa, FL; WBHM-FM, Birmingham, AL; WSRE-TV/FM, Pensacola, FL; WVAS-FM, Montgomery, AL.
A CAT IN THE HAT CHRISTMAS
Mark your calendar! Join Friends of LPB and The Cat in the Hat, for A Cat in the Hat Christmas on Sunday, November 21 from 1:30 to 4:30PM at Christmas Forest on Highway 964 in Zachary.
There will be hayrides, inflatables, crafts and a lot more. Children can get their picture taken with The Cat and Santa Claus and families can choose and cut their own Christmas tree. LPB Kids Club members get a free picture with either The Cat or Santa.
To get tickets or more information, call Friends of LPB at (225) 767-4214. Tickets can be purchased on the day of the event. Information is also available online.
THE GREAT SHERLOCK DEBATE
Do you love the classic Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett versions of Sherlock Holmes or the new Masterpiece Mystery! version set in modern times with Dr. Watson chronicling Holmes’s exploits on a blog? Come join the discussion on Thursday, November 4 at 6:30PM at the Citiplace Barnes & Noble in Baton Rouge. LSU Graduate Student Kris Mecholsky will be the guest speaker and will moderate the discussion. There will be free scones and coffee.
To get ready for the discussion, watch the new Sherlock mysteries on October 24 and 31 at 8PM on LPB and the Jeremy Brett versions on Thursdays at 8PM or Saturdays at 6PM. Did you know that over 70 actors have portrayed Holmes and more than 10,000 books have been written using the character? If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had been more successful as a physician, Sherlock Holmes may never have existed. A lack of patients gave Doyle the time to write the original Sherlock Holmes stories.
FRIENDS HAS TICKETS FOR 4TROOPS AND VIDEO GAMES LIVE!
Friends of LPB has your ticket for two great concerts in Baton Rouge in November.
On November 13 at 7PM, Video Games Live will be at the Baton Rouge River Center with a concert featuring music from all the classic video games you love including Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Halo, Warcraft, Final Fantasy, God of War, Civilization, StarCraft and Guitar Hero.
On November 21, 4Troops will be in concert at the Manship Theatre in Baton Rouge. This group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans sing pop and patriotic songs. There will be two concerts at 2 and 7PM.
To purchase tickets, visit ShopLPB at www.lpb.org/shop or call (225) 767-4214.
LOOKING FOR FAN #3500!
Since LPB is celebrating its 35th birthday this year, we'd like to hit the 35-hundred mark on LPB's new Facebook fan page. If you're already a fan, thanks! Please send an invitation to your friends to keep up with us on Facebook. If you're not yet a fan, just click here and "like" us. Fan #3500 will win a special LPB prize pack!
You can also follow LPB on Twitter.
SHOPLPB...AT YOUR SERVICE!
Friends members can get a 15% discount on all ShopLPB purchases. Just type in your code from your copy of Visions when you check out.
More than 250 items are available for a contribution to LPB. It’s an excellent way to support your public television network in these tough financial times. Find programs on a variety of subjects, such as Mon Cher Camarade, The Spirit of a Culture: Cane River Creoles, Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening, and Camp Ruston: German P.O.W.'s in Louisiana, and books like Ms. Lucy's Skinny Cajun Cookbook!
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