WKAR-TV On-Air Membership Campaign
Continues through March 16
on WKAR-23, WKAR Life and WKAR World
New Specials Continue in On-Air Membership Campaign
WKAR-TV continues its on-air membership campaign this week. If you’ve not yet made your pledge, please call during one of these programs or pledge online at WKAR.org. Programs will be simulcast on WKAR-23, WKAR Life and WKAR World.
Here are highlights of new programs. Times of repeats are also included.
The Osmonds 50th Anniversary Reunion
Wednesday, March 5, at 8 p.m.
The Osmonds, a legendary music family, celebrate a historic 50th anniversary in entertainment with an all-star music special. The Osmonds 50TH Anniversary Reunion stars the Osmond Brothers with special guests Donny, Marie and Jimmy, as well as Andy Williams, who was in large part responsible for their early success.
The concert special, taped before an enthusiastic audience at the Orleans Hotel Showroom in Las Vegas, features all the siblings performing many of their chart-topping hit songs. The special marks the first time in many years that the entire Osmond family performs together on the same stage. The special also includes cameo appearances by celebrity guests, video clips and photos, and a mix of musical numbers.
Included are some of the Osmond Brothers’ hit songs: “Lazy River,” “We’re Having a Party,” “One Bad Apple,” “Double Lovin’” and “Yo-Yo.” Donny performs his hit singles “Puppy Love,” and “Soldier of Love”; sister Marie entertains with her hit single “Paper Roses” and a medley from The Sound of Music and The King and I.
Donny and Marie team up and perform a medley of their famous hits, including “I’m Leaving It All Up to You,” “Little Bit Country and Little Bit Rock & Roll,” “It Takes Two” and “Make the World Go Away,” while brother Jimmy performs one of his number one hit records, “Long Haired Lover From Liverpool.”
Celebrating the Complete Jane Austen
Wednesday, March 5, at 10 p.m.
Six novels, hundreds of characters, thousands of bonnets — and one of literature’s most beloved authors. What does it take to turn “The Complete Jane Austen” into a television series?
Celebrating the Complete Jane Austen looks at the Masterpiece collection of film adaptations of all six of Jane Austen’s novels. The Complete Jane Austen represents the first time that all of her works — Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility have been aired as a series.
Host Lisa Daniels tackles the questions the most ardent Janeite would ask: Two hundred years after her death, why do Jane Austen’s novels continue to relate to modern readers? What’s in these stories for the “Sex and the City” crowd (one answer: clothes!)? And what were the challenges in bringing these novels to television?
The behind-the-scenes process is captured through interviews with producer Rebecca Eaton and Andrew Davies, the acclaimed screenwriter responsible for the television adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility. Additional expertise about Austen herself is provided by Dr. Marcia Folsom, professor and chair of humanities and writing at Wheelock College (Boston, Massachusetts), editor of several books about Jane Austen and a frequent Austen lecturer.
Great Performances: Martina McBride: Live in Concert
Thursday, March 6, at 8 p.m.
The real appeal of country music comes from just one place — the heart — and no one knows that better than Martina McBride. “You can always look at a fresh way of doing a song,” she says, “but it always has to resonate with the truth.” Proving her point is a new Great Performances special.
A crossover success widely known for her many albums and television appearances, McBride offers a lively encore of her many hits, including “How I Feel,” “Love’s the Only House,” “This One’s for the Girls” and her 2007 Country Music Awards Song of the Year-nominated “Anyway,” the fastest-selling single of her career. Each is a small world in itself: direct, honest, immediate. “I’ll be singing ‘Independence Day’ at concerts the rest of my life,” she says of her 1993 signature song told from the point of view of a child now grown up. “I love the story. I get closer to it every time I sing it.”
Recorded last September at Moline, Illinois’ i wireless Center, before a sea of screaming fans, Martina McBride: Live in Concert” spotlights McBride’s latest album, Waking Up Laughing (RCA), and features a number of its songs, including “Tryin’ to Find a Reason” and “For These Times.” Also highlighted are some personal favorites from her 2005 Timeless album, including such “oldies” as Lynn Anderson’s “(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden” and Loretta Lynn’s “You Ain’t Woman Enough (to Take My Man).”
Chantal Live at the Pyramids
Thursday, March 6, at 10 p.m.
Egypt's majestic Pyramids of Giza and Great Sphinx provide a dramatic backdrop for the U.S. television debut of Canadian artist Chantal Chamandy. Accompanied by the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and her troupe of 10 dancers, the Egyptian-born singer/songwriter returns to her native country to perform an eclectic mix of songs.
Visually enhanced by striking choreography, elegant staging and a dynamic light show, the concert special includes Broadway, Arabic and original compositions. The Egyptian National Ballet Company, Tanoura dancers, a Darbouka drum band and an Egyptian marching band join Chantal for a remarkable spectacular.
The Brain Fitness Program
Friday, March 7, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, March 8, at 3:30 p.m.
American Masters: Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Friday, March 7, at 9:30 p.m.
As early as August 18, 1955, folk singer Pete Seeger set himself apart as a “true American” when he appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee and refused to name names, stating, “I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this.”
As a target of the communist witch hunt of the 1950s, Seeger was picketed, protested, blacklisted and, in spite of his enormous popularity, banned from American commercial television for more than 17 years. Throughout his ordeal, and his life, he never stopped singing out — and speaking up. “I look upon myself as a planter of seeds,” the legendary artist and political activist says in American Masters Pete Seeger: The Power of Song. The program is the first and only authorized film biography of Seeger.
Now 88, Seeger was the architect of the folk revival, writing some of its best-known songs, including “If I Had a Hammer,” “Turn! Turn! Turn!” and “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.” In the film, anthems including “We Shall Overcome” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” underscore music’s importance to the civil rights and peace movements and show how Seeger used songs to drive the clean-up of the Hudson River, one of many issues still close to his heart.
The film illuminates Seeger’s belief in the ultimate power of song and his conviction that individuals can make a difference. While a member of the American Communist Party, he used music to organize labor unions and was blacklisted as a result. Musicians such as Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen and Bonnie Raitt appear in the film to discuss Seeger’s numerous contributions.
The film is also a love story, an homage to Seeger’s wife Toshi, who helped inspire “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine.” While on leave from the Army during World War II, Seeger married Toshi Ohta, a Japanese activist, and their marriage has endured for more than 60 years. The Power of Song includes first-ever family interviews and remarkable personal footage of the Seegers and their three young children shot in the early 1960s during a world tour to document music in such far-flung locales as Ghana, Tanzania and Czechoslovakia. The Seegers continue to live simply, in the woods, in a cabin Pete built himself.
America’s Home Kitchen: Crock Pots
Saturday, March 8, at 8 a.m.
America’s Test Kitchen Live!
Saturday, March 8, at 11 a.m.
Rick Steves: Italy’s Dolce Vita
Saturday, March 8, at Noon
Daniel O’Donnell: At Home In Ireland
Saturday, March 8, at 2 p.m.
My Music: Country Pop Legends
Saturday, March 8, at 5 p.m.
Lawrence Welk’s TV Treasures
Saturday, March 8, at 7 p.m.
Great Performances: James Taylor – One Man Band
Saturday, March 8, at 9 p.m.
Dr. Wayne Dyer: Inspiration – Your Ultimate Calling
Sunday, March 9, at 8 a.m.
Great Scenic Railway Journeys
Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m.
My Music, My Generation – The ‘60s
Sunday, March 9, at 5 p.m.
Andre Rieu In Wonderland
Sunday, March 9,at 7 p.m.
Internationally renowned violinist André Rieu’s latest PBS special invites viewers to experience the wonder and enchantment of fairy tales, as he and his guests perform music from the classic stories. Recorded at Efteling, one of the world’s oldest and most beautiful fairy tale-based theme parks, in the Netherlands, the concert features Rieu, the Johann Strauss Orchestra and guest soloists.
Rieu’s journey into the realm of fairies, elves and happily-ever-afters includes performances by Suzan Erens, Carmen Monarcha, Carla Maffioletti, Mirusia Louwerse, Brian Dickerson, the Platinum Tenors, the Ballet of the Vienna State Opera, the International Dance Theatre, the Berlin Folk Music Sparrows, Rieu’s Johann Strauss Orchestra and his vocal choir.
Opening with “Thus Spake Zarathustra,” the special includes music from Swan Lake, Hansel and Gretel, The Magic Flute and Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and fairy-tale-inspired favorites “Solveig’s Song,” “The Old Castle” and “Sabre Dance.”
American Soundtrack: Doo Wop’s Best
Sunday, March 9, at 9 p.m.
Celtic Woman: A New Journey
Monday, March 10, at 8 p.m.
Pioneers of Television: Variety and Game Shows
Monday, March 10, at 10 p.m.
published: March 4, 2008
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