Flying Squirrels Insider: Season 2 Debut

Flying Squirrels Insider

Season 2 of Flying Squirrels Insider is underway. Featuring a new studio set design, FSI is anchored by sports personalities Jon Laaser, Jay Burnham and Wes McElroy. Eleven 30 minute bi-weekly shows are scheduled throughout the Flying Squirrels 2013 season, which will showcase baseball projections, recaps, replays, and baseball vignettes.

Play Ball! Get Ready For A New Season of Flying Squirrels Insider

Flying Squirrels Insider

In partnership with WCVE Video Productions and the Richmond Flying Squirrels, the Flying Squirrels Insider television show starts Season 2, Saturday, April 6 at 5:00 p.m. on WCVE PBS and WHTJ PBS. Eleven 30 minute bi-weekly shows are scheduled throughout the Flying Squirrels 2013 season, which will showcase baseball projections, recaps, replays, and baseball vignettes.

Andrea Bocelli: Love in Portofino

Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli, the international superstar tenor returns to Great Performances once again to delight fans with Andrea Bocelli: Love in Portofino, a new concert special in which he puts classical music aside for an evening of international favorites inspired by the breathtaking coastal setting of Portofino, Italy.

Makers: Women Who Make America

March on Washington

Over the last half-century, America has seen one of the most sweeping social revolutions in its history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy. It’s a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, on grand stages like the Supreme Court and Congress, and in humbler ones like the boardroom and the bedroom. No individual and no aspect of American life has been unchanged.

Masterpiece: Contemporary “Page Eight”

Masterpiece Contemporary Page Eight

What happens when spies grow older in a post-9/11 world? Sixty-something MI-5 agent Johnny Worricker has amassed an impressive art collection, an amicable collection of ex-wives, and a droll, unflappable relationship with the work he enjoys alongside his boss and best friend, MI5 chief Benedict Baron. But when Benedict brings to light damning evidence of British complicity with illegal American torture operations, it falls to Johnny to do the right thing.

After Newtown: Guns in America

After Newtown: Guns in America

After Newtown: Guns in America is an unprecedented exploration of America’s enduring relationship with firearms. From the first European settlements in the New World to frontier justice; from 19th-century immigrant riots to gangland violence in the Roaring Twenties; from the Civil War to civil rights, guns have been at center of our national narrative. Americans have relied on guns to sustain communities, challenge authority and keep the peace.

“Out of Order” Documentary To Air Nationwide

Out of Order

Out of Order, a production-partnership between The Community Idea Stations and the Center for Politics - University of Virginia has gone national. The 30-minute documentary, which examines the decline in civil discourse in the American political process, will air on more than 180 PBS stations across the country this month, including such major markets as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington DC.

“Richard II” on Shakespeare Uncovered

Shakespeare Uncovered

The stories behind Shakespeare’s greatest plays are shared by modern Shakespearean actors and directors in the series Shakespeare Uncovered. Next up, Derek Jacobi will examine “Richard II,” including scenes from a new, upcoming PBS film of the play featuring Ben Whishaw and Patrick Stewart.

Topsy Chapman and Butch Thompson on PHC

A Prairie Home Companion

This week on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, they’re kicking off a five-week homestand in Saint Paul, Minnesota with a live broadcast from The Fitzgerald Theater. With special guests, big-voiced vocalist Topsy Chapman and PHC’s good friend Butch Thompson and His New Orleans Orphans.

Pioneers Of Television: Superheroes

Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

“Superheroes” crosses many eras: “Superman” in the 1950s, “Batman” in the ’60s, “Wonder Woman” and “The Incredible Hulk” in the ’70s and “The Greatest American Hero” in the ’80s. The episode features in-depth interviews with Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, Lynda Carter, Lou Ferrigno, William Katt and others. It also includes comments from Robert Culp, about his show “The Greatest American Hero.”