On The Next NOVA – “Extreme Ice”

Remarkable time-lapse footage by one of the world’s foremost nature photographers reveals massive glaciers and ice sheets splitting apart, collapsing, and disappearing at a rate that has more and more scientists alarmed. This NOVA-National Geographic Television special investigates the latest evidence of a radically warming planet.

Extreme Ice  follows National Geographic-funded photojournalist James Balog to some of the most dangerous places on Earth as he documents the disappearance of an icy landscape that took thousands of years to form.

Tuesday February 16th at 8PM on WVPT!

All You Want To Know About . . . LIZARDS!

They look like dragons and inspire visions of fire-spitting monsters. But Monitor Lizards with their long claws, razor-sharp teeth, and muscular, whip-like tails are actually monitors, the largest lizards now walking the planet. With their acute intelligence, these lizards—including the largest of all, the Komodo dragon—are a very different kind of reptile, blurring the line between reptiles and mammals. Thriving on Earth essentially unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, they are a very successful species, versatile at adapting to all kinds of settings.

NOVA “Lizard Kings” looks at what makes these long-tongued reptiles so similar to mammals and what has allowed them to become such unique survivors.

Tune in Tuesday October 20^th at 8pm on WVPT and WVPT-HD.

 

On The Next NOVA: “Darwin’s Darkest Hour”

With this new program, NOVA takes a different approach in it’s “delivery” of content, in this two-hour scripted drama which tells the remarkable story behind the unveiling of the most influential scientific theory of all time, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. The program is a special presentation from NOVA and National Geographic Television, written by acclaimed British screenwriter John Goldsmith and directed by John Bradshaw.

Tune in for “Darwin’s Darkest Hour” , Tuesday October 6th at 8pm on WVPT.

PBS Video On Demand . . . Now Available for YOU!

Now you can watch full length videos from the libraries of dozens of your favorite WVPT and PBS programs/series at PBS Video On Demand.   American Experience, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, NOVA, The NewsHour and many more!

Also accessible from the WVPT WebChannel.  Just click on the “On Demand” button.

NOVA and NOVA scienceNOW . . . Make Tuesday Nights Fascinating!

Did you miss MUST SEE SCIENCE TUESDAY?  If so, or if you want more information, visit the NOVA website!

Next Time on NOVA: “Secrets of the Samurai Sword”

English archers had their longbows, Old West sheriffs had their six-guns, but samurai warriors had the most fearsome weapon of all: the razor-sharp, unsurpassed technology of the katana, or samurai sword. In this program, NOVA probes the centuries-old secrets that went into forging what many consider the perfect blade.

The beauty and lethality of the curved steel blade became identified with the distinctive culture of those who wielded it so expertly: the samurai warriors of medieval Japan, celebrated in countless Japanese woodcuts, prints, and films. Fifteen traditional Japanese craftsmen spent nearly six months creating the sword that NOVA follows through production, from smelting the ore to forging the steel to sharpening the blade to a keen edge, capable of slicing through a row of warriors at one swoop—although NOVA does not put the super-weapon to this ultimate test.  But tune in to WVPT Tuesday night July 7^th at 8PM and see all that the NOVA producers DID find out.

On The Next NOVA: “Musical Minds”

Can the power of music make the brain come alive? On the next NOVA: Musical Minds, we will find out. Throughout his career Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and acclaimed author, whose book Awakenings was made into a Oscar-nominated feature film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, has encountered myriad patients who are struggling to cope with debilitating medical conditions. While their ailments vary, many have one thing in common: an appreciation for the therapeutic effects of music. NOVA follows four individuals—two of whom are Sacks’s case studies—and even peers into Sacks’s own brain, to investigate music’s strange, surprising, and still unexplained power over the human mind.  Learn more @ NOVA or tune in Tuesday June 30^th at 8pm on WVPT and WVPT-HD.

On the Next NOVA: Bone Diggers

NOVA takes viewers to the stark Australian outback in search of the elusive bones of one of the world’s most bizarre prehistoric creatures—a giant predatory marsupial called Thylacoleo. Australia’s leading paleontologists endure extreme weather, treacherous drops into a deep cavern, and the threat of fossil poachers as they launch a daring expedition to find the rare megabeast.  Tune in Tuesday June 16th at 8PM.

Next Time on NOVA: Ocean Animal Emergency

Part emergency room, part rehab facility, and part research lab, the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California means the difference between life and death for sick and injured ocean animals. NOVA takes you inside this very special ER to witness the efforts of a renowned team of wildlife veterinarians as they fight to save their animal patients as well as to uncover the cause of a mysterious neurological illness plaguing marine mammals like California sea lions and harbor seal pups. 

Watch NOVA: Ocean Animal Emergency, Tuesday May26th at 8PM on WVPT and WVPT-HD.

WVPT’s Video On Demand On-line Resource

  Take a peek at WVPT’s online Video on Demand resource and view episodes or segments of some of your favorite series like: American Experience, Frontline, NOVA, Nature, The NewsHour and NBR – and even WVPT’s local series like Virginia Farming and WVPT Cooks.

Enjoy these programs and many more, on-line, on your own schedule – whenever you want to!

WVPT is YOUR SOURCE for programming excellence on the air and on-line.