If you are a Muppets Fan, you need to see this! A remake of the classic Bohemian Rhapsody.
Archive for November, 2009
The Muppets and The Rock Group Queen – Something In Common?
November 26, 2009Relive “Classics” From the 1960’s on WVPT
November 24, 2009In this “new” program, memorable music appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show” from the 1960s include: The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, the Beach Boys, the Animals, the Mamas and the Papas, the Young Rascals, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Petula Clark, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Sly and [...]
You Can Be “Thankful” For Great Performances On WVPT
November 23, 2009Spend Thanksgiving Night with WVPT and enjoy some GREAT Performance programs!
At 8pm tune-in for the new ‘Radio City Christmas Spectacular Starring The Rockettes”. This holiday special features numbers like legendary “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” and thrill as Santa takes you on a magical ride to his workshop at the North Pole, where playful ragdolls [...]
On The Next FRONTLINE: “The Card Game”
November 23, 2009As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and a potential perfect storm of economic bad news, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the future of the massive consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile national economy. Tune in to THE CARD GAME, Tuesday November 24th at 9PM on WVPT.
What Are Dreams? – Find Out On the Next NOVA
November 23, 2009What are dreams and why do we have them? NOVA joins leading dream researchers as they embark on a variety of neurological and psychological experiments to investigate the world of sleep and dreams. Delving deep into the thoughts and brains of a variety of dreamers, scientists are asking important questions about the purpose of this [...]
What’s On WVPT These Days? Check Out The New Schedules Page!
November 16, 2009Check out the new WVPT On-Line Schedules Page. Now you can view AND print daily and weekly program schedules. A great new tool!
WVPT is Your Source for PBS and More, on-air, on-line and in the community!
On The Next FRONTLINE: “A Death In Tehran”
November 16, 2009At the height of the protests following Iran’s controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death–filmed on a camera phone, then uploaded to the Web–quickly became an international outrage, and Soltan became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the [...]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SESAME STREET!
November 10, 2009Today – November 10th 2009 SESAME STREET celebrates its 40th Birthday!! Many of us grew up with Sesame Street and now have children or grandchildren doing the same.
Sesame Street is an important part of WVPT’s programming efforts on PBS KIDS.
“Beatlemania” in the Soviet Union – The Untold Story. . .
November 8, 2009“HOW THE BEATLES ROCKED THE KREMLIN” is the extraordinary and untold story of how the Beatles punctured the Iron Curtain. In August 1962, award-winning director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film, in Liverpool’s Cavern Club, with a raw and unrecorded group of unknown rockers — the Beatles. Twenty-five years later, while making a series of [...]
On The Next NOVA: Part 2 of “Becoming Human”
November 8, 2009In “Birth of Humanity,” the second part of the three-part series “Becoming Human” NOVA investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us–”Turkana Boy”–an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya. These early humans are thought to have developed key innovations that helped them thrive, including hunting large [...]
