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Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey, Series Two
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Sundays
Multiple Emmy winner (including Outstanding Miniseries!) "Downton Abbey" resumes the story of aristocrats and servants of Downton Abbey during the tumultuous World War I era.
The international hit, written by Julian Fellowes, 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. Laura Linney hosts
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January 8 at 9:00pm and January 15 at 7:00pm – Episode One
Two years into World War I, Downton Abbey is in turmoil, as Matthew and other young men go to war — or avoid it. The women also pitch in, and many couples see their romantic dreams dashed.
January 15 at 9:00pm and January 22 at 7:00pm - Episode Two
Downton is turned into a convalescent home.
January 22 at 7:00pm and January 29 at 8:00pm – Episode Three
Matthew and William embark on a perilous patrol behind German lines.
January 29 at 9:00pm – Episode Four
In the climactic battle of the war, Matthew and William go over the top to an uncertain fate.
February 5 at 9:00pm – Episode Five
As the war nears its end, Downton’s aristocrats and servants put their lives back together.
February 12 at 9:00pm – Episode Six
The Spanish flu strikes Downton, transforming the fortunes of all.
February 19 at 9:00pm – Episode Seven
The family gathers at Downton Abbey for Christmas.
Antiques Roadshow-An all new season!
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Mondays at 8:00pm
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW® has done it again: Mined America’s attics, basements, parlors and pantries for treasures of record-setting proportions. The nine-time Emmy® Award nominated series, PBS’s most-watched, premieres its sixteenth season in 2012, with a brand new lineup of appraisals totaling more than $8 million in value!
ROADSHOW’s season premiere from Tulsa, Oklahoma, boasts the series’ most valuable discovery ever: A collection of late 17th/early 18th-century Chinese carved rhinoceros horn cups valued at between $1 million and $1.5 million.
Hosted by Mark L. Walberg, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW launches its new season Monday, January 2 on PBS. Eighteen exciting new episodes were recorded in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Eugene, Oregon; El Paso, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Atlanta, Georgia; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also, three brand new ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Special Editions: “Junk in the Trunk 2, “Cats & Dogs,” and “Greatest Gifts” add exclamation points to the 2012 lineup.
In yet another ANTIQUES ROADSHOW first, a series of six “Vintage Roadshow” episodes introduces current estimates of value along with original footage from the series’ earliest seasons, revealing the dizzying ups and downs of the antiques and collectibles market.
Underground Railroad: The William Still Story
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Monday, February 6 at 10:00pm
Extraordinary people risked their lives to help fugitive slaves escape via the clandestine Underground Railroad. Among them was William Still of Philadelphia, a free black man who accepted delivery of transported crates containing human “cargo.”
This documentary reveals some of the dramatic, lesser-known stories behind this humanitarian enterprise, and explores key Canadian connections, including the surprising fate of former slaves who crossed the border to “Freedom’s Land.”
Slavery by Another Name
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Monday, February 13 at 9:00pm
A Sundance Film Festival selection for 2012, this new documentary based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Wall Street Journal senior writer Douglas A. Blackmon, explores the little-known story of the post-Emancipation era and the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted well into the 20th century. Blackmon examines the concept of “neoslavery,” which sentenced African-Americans to forced labor for violating an array of laws that criminalized their everyday behavior.
Actor Laurence Fishburne (“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” Thurgood) narrates.
Not in Our Town: Class Actions
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Monday, February 13 at 10:30pm
This program features three stories of students and their communities standing together to stop hate and bullying.
Fifty years after James Meredith became the first black student at the segregated University of Mississippi, football fans revive the chant “The South will rise again.” Student leaders confront the divisive practice, sparking a campus visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The college town of Bloomington, Indiana, shocked after a Korean student was murdered by a white supremacist a decade ago, bands together again after anti-Semitic attacks on the eve of Hanukkah. Iin Lancaster, a city east of Los Angeles, a middle school counselor starts an anti-bullying program that inspires a citywide campaign after teen suicides in nearby towns shake the town into action.
