SPY IN THE HUDDLE

A NATURE SPECIAL PRESENTATION

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM

For nearly a year, 50 animatronic cameras disguised as realistic life-size penguins, eggs and rocks infiltrate penguin colonies to record the tough challenges penguins face from the moment they emerge from the sea to raising their chicks and finally returning to the water.

Episode 1 – The Journey
Emperor penguins cross a treacherous frozen sea to reach their breeding grounds. Rockhoppers brave the world’s stormiest seas only to come ashore and face a daunting assault up a 300-foot cliff, hopping most of the way up. Tropical Humboldt penguins negotiate predatory sea lions and vampire bats to reach their desert nests. The hard work for all the penguins finally pays off when their tiny, vulnerable chicks begin to hatch.

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KOCH

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 @ 8:00PM

New York City mayors have a world stage on which to strut, and they have made legendary use of it. Yet few have matched the bravado, combativeness and egocentricity that Ed Koch brought to the office during his three terms from 1978 to 1989. As Neil Barsky’s Koch recounts, Koch was more than the blunt, funny man New Yorkers either loved or hated. Elected in the 1970s during the city’s fiscal crisis, he was a new Democrat for the dawning Reagan era—fiscally conservative and socially liberal. Koch finds the former mayor politically active to the end (he died in 2013)—still winning the affection of many New Yorkers while driving others to distraction.

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MISS MARPLE SEASON 7

GREENSHAW’S FOLLY

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 @ 7:30PM & 11:30PM

When an old family friend and her young son turn to Miss Marple for assistance, she places them at nearby Greenshaw’s Folly, the family home of an eccentric botanist. But it becomes clear that the labyrinthine Folly isn’t quite the safe house that Miss Marple had hoped, when death casts its dark and sinister shadow on the residents.

Adapted from two of Christie’s short stories, Greenshaw’s Folly and The Thumb Mark of St. Peter, the film reunites Julia McKenzie with two Cranford costars: Kimberly Nixon (Louisa) and Julia Sawalha (Mrs. Cresswell). Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter) guest stars.

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MISS MARPLE SEASON 7

A CARIBBEAN MYSTERY

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM

While staying at a lavish tropical island hotel, Miss Marple investigates the
 sudden death of a fellow guest. With the help of a curmudgeonly business tycoon, Miss Marple unravels a web of deceit, murder and “dark magic,” leaving her to consider every one of the hotel’s guests as a suspect. Sir Antony Sher (God on Trial) guest stars.

Filmed on location in South Africa and based on Christie’s 1964 novel, A Caribbean Mystery was adapted by comedian, author and actor Charlie Higson, who has a cameo as the unassuming American ornithologist James Bond. Also starring are MyAnna Buring (Downton Abbey), Pippa Bennett Warner (Case Histories), and Charity Wakefield (Any Human Heart).

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AN INTIMATE HISTORY

A STRONG AND ACTIVE FAITH

THURSDAY, APRIL 30 @ 11:00PM

By April of 1944, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt have occupied the White House for more than eleven years. The President is secretly convalescing in South Carolina from a recently diagnosed bout of congestive heart failure while the war rages overseas and his family is under press scrutiny at home. Despite his failing health, FDR has ambitious postwar plans for his country: to see the horrific struggle through to victory, and then to bring the United States into a new international organization strong enough to insure that the world will not go to war again – the United Nations.

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AN INTIMATE HISTORY

A STRONG AND ACTIVE FAITH

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 @ 6:00PM, 8:00PM & 11:00PM

By April of 1944, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt have occupied the White House for more than eleven years. The President is secretly convalescing in South Carolina from a recently diagnosed bout of congestive heart failure while the war rages overseas and his family is under press scrutiny at home. Despite his failing health, FDR has ambitious postwar plans for his country: to see the horrific struggle through to victory, and then to bring the United States into a new international organization strong enough to insure that the world will not go to war again – the United Nations.

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THE CASE FOR BEAUTY

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

James McNeill Whistler & The Case for Beauty takes a close look at how the 19th-Century artist pioneered a new way of thinking about art, that beauty, in and of itself, is a work of art’s most essential value. This groundbreaking genius’ struggle to find his own voice resulted in a breakaway style that moved painting towards abstraction and revolutionized the art world in Whistler’s time — paving the way for what became known as modern art decades later in the 20^th-Century. By the time of his death, Whistler had become one of the most recognized artists in Europe. He is now placed in the first rank of modern painters, his work compared to that of Velázquez and Rembrandt.

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