DOWNTON ABBEY REVISITED

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25 @ 7:00PM

ENCORE PRESENTATION @ 8:30PM

In this upcoming television special, DOWNTON ABBEY REVISITED, savor great moments from the series’ first two seasons, check out behind-the-scenes footage and get a sneak peek at Season 3.

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JIMMY CLIFF

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25 @ 12:00AM

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff has a career that spans almost 50 years.  With “a voice that is preserved to startling perfection” (Rolling Stone), the only living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honor for achievement in the arts and sciences granted by the Jamaican government, has a soon-to-be-released CD and a live show that has critics raving. Billboardwrote “Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff has absolutely no business at 62 sounding as good as he does.”

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23 @ 9:00PM

This Week on Washington Week: Gaza Crisis, Foreign Policy Politics & Black Friday Economics

President Obama’s historic trip to Asia was overshadowed this week by escalating violence in the Middle East. In addition, there were the looming fiscal cliff negotiations and post-election politics on Capitol Hill.

The President dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the region to help finalize a cease fire agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. But are the chances for peace more complicated now that with new leaders and power structures in the region following the Arab Spring?

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30

Episode 11: New York @ 7:00PM
This episode is all New York with the Torrsi boys, oysters, carrot dashi, and farming. Plus Chang visits native New Yorker Ivan Ramen in Tokyo where he is making ramen that is taking the city by storm.

Episode 12: Fresh @ 7:30PM
This episode explores the idea of fresh in the kitchen; instant broth, pea agnollini, fresh and aged steak with Chef Tien and Ike Jime with Dave Arnold and Chef Murata in Kyoto.

Episode 13: Soy @ 8:00PM
This episode is all soy; Chang visits tofu and miso factories in Japan, Chef Christina Tosi makes Burnt Miso.

Episode 14: Sweet Spot @ 9:00PM
Chang’s protégé Christina Tosi makes corn cookies three ways and her three layered Arnold Palmer Cake, Chef Burns makes ice cream and Chang goes strawberry picking.

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INSIDE THE MEGASTORM

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 @ 10:00PM

Was Hurricane Sandy a freak combination of weather systems? Or are hurricanes increasing in intensity due to a warming climate? How did this perfect storm make search and rescue so dangerous? “Inside the Megastorm” takes viewers moment by moment through Hurricane Sandy, its impacts, and the future of storm protection. Through first person accounts from those who survived, and from experts and scientists, “Inside the Megastorm” gives scientific context to a new breed of storms.

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INVENTING DAVID GEFFEN

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 @ 9:00PM

“I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.”–– David Geffen

David Geffen’s far-reaching influence — as agent, manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway producer, and philanthropist — has helped shape American popular culture for the past four decades. Notoriously press and camera-shy, Geffen reveals himself for the first time in the new two-hour documentary.

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POOR KIDS

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7 @ 11:00PM

FRONTLINE spent months following three young girls who are growing up against the backdrop of their families’ struggles against financial ruin. At a time when one in five American kids lives below the poverty line, Poor Kids is an is an intimate portrait of the economic crisis as it’s rarely seen, through the eyes of children.

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Reaping the Whirlwind

TUESDAY, APRIL 30 @ 9:00PM

THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews with twenty-six survivors of those hard times, combined with dramatic photographs and seldom seen movie footage, bring to life stories of incredible human suffering and equally incredible human perseverance. It is also a morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains us—a lesson we ignore at our peril.

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