Has it really been 40 years?
Bill Friday, the longtime UNC president who many in this state consider the godfather of public higher education, is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his UNC-TV interview show, "North Carolina People with Bill Friday."
As Yonat Shimron reports in Sunday's News & Observer, Friday is as sharp and on point as ever, having long ago learned the value of the open-ended question.
The Bachelor (8pm, ABC) - Tonight's the night Brad Womack gives out his final rose, and it better be to Charlotte's Emily Maynard if he knows what's good for him. Whatever happens, there promises to be lots of drama before the final rose ceremony. 'The Bachelor: After the Final Rose" special airs immediately following this at 10pm. In the meantime, catch up on all of our 'Bachelor'/Emily Maynard coverage.
The Best of Laugh-In (8pm, UNC-TV) - A special featuring memorable clips from the variety show, "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," which ran from 1968-1973.
House (8pm, Fox) - A bullfighter is admitted after being attacked by a bull, but House is away from the hospital, reeling from his Cuddy breakup.
The Chicago Code (9pm, Fox) - Jarek and Caleb try to track down a drug supplier whose merchandise put a wealthy family's son in a coma, and the investigation leads to the discovery of a complex murder.
The Event (9pm, NBC) - Martinez reasserts control following the attack in Alaska, and Sophia learns about Thomas' rampage. Meanwhile, Michael leaves Leila with a friend (Gabrielle Carteris) while he hunts Thomas.
Stargate Universe (10pm, Syfy) - In the season's second episode, Eli may have found a way home, but Rush believes the plan could go catastrophically wrong.
Lizard Lick Towing (10pm, truTV) - Ron and Amy host what TV Guide calls a "pig roast," but we all know they have a pig-pickin'. At the pig-pickin', a guest's car needs to be repossessed. Also, Amy's water breaks while Ron is away.
Turn on your television Sunday morning and you're likely to catch Cary native and NC State grad Judy Lee hosting a new PBS Kids Go! series called "Design Squad Nation."
For the show, hosts Lee and Adam Vollmer team up with kids across the country -- and all over the world -- to make their imaginations come to life through engineering.
The aim of the program, according to PBS, is to show kids that engineering is everywhere, even where you least expect to find it.
Lee graduated from NCSU with a bachelor's degree in engineering ('98) and a master's in industrial design ('04). The engineering and design degrees make her a natural for "Design Squad Nation."
Keep reading for more info and to view a clip from the show.
Tonight at 9pm on UNC-TV, 'Frontline' presents an in-depth look at the recent rebellion and change of leadership in Egypt.
For 'Revolution in Cairo,' the PBS news magazine dispatched teams to the Egyptian city, going inside the youth movement that helped spark the uprising.
The report covers the April 6th youth group, which two years ago began making bold use of the Internet for their underground resistance. Those tactics led to jail and torture for many of their leaders. Starting with the January 25 "Day of Rage," witness those same leaders plot strategy and head into Liberation Square to try to bring down President Mubarak.
Also in the 'Frontline' report, veteran Middle East correspondent Charles Sennott of GlobalPost lands in Cairo to take a hard look at Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood -- the most well-organized and powerful of the country’s opposition groups -- as a new fight for power in Egypt begins to take shape.
Governor Beverly Perdue's State of the State address will be broadcast live tonight beginning at 7pm.
News 14 Carolina, UNC-TV and WRAL will all air the speech, which is expected to last about an hour. WTVD will air the speech on their digital broadcast channel 11.2. News 14 will begin their coverage at 6:50. The speech will also stream live on the UNCTV.org, WTVD.com and WRAL.com websites.
A television show produced by N.C. State University has won a regional Emmy Award.
The team that produced "In the Garden with Bryce Lane" received the award over the weekend at the 25th Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards.
The show is produced by NCSU's Communication Services department. Bryce Lane, host and instructor in N.C. State’s Horticultural Science Department, brings more than 28 years of teaching experience to television.
The production team includes videographer/editor Simone Keith, producer Sonya Williams Harris and graphic artist John Vanaman. The show airs Saturdays at noon on UNC-TV.
Williams Harris said In the Garden won the award for a show about gardening with children. The episode, from the show’s seventh season, features Lane’s grandchildren working in his home garden, as well as students from Raleigh’s Ravenscroft School and 4-H horticulture specialist Liz Driscoll demonstrating fun gardening activities for children.
In the Garden, beginning its ninth season this year, is the only show of its kind offered in North Carolina. The show is both a television series and a horticulture distance education course. Viewers can register for the course to earn college credit.
The CNN special "Rogue Justice" (inspired by the reporting of the N&O's Mandy Locke and Joe Neff) gave a riveting look at justice denied when the state's crime lab withheld evidence.
Tonight, there's an equally compelling companion piece to that report. "Post Mortem" (UNC-TV, 9 p.m.) investigates the dysfunction among death investigators -- coroners and forensic pathologists whose errors can condemn the innocent or let the guilty go free.
Tomorrow at noon UNC-TV will broadcast the opening session of the North Carolina House of Representatives live, followed at approximately 1:30pm by taped coverage of the opening of the North Carolina Senate.
Weekly coverage of the legislature on "North Carolina Now Legislative Review" begins on Friday, January 28, at 7:30pm on UNC-TV.
In light of the recent passing of renowned North Carolina author Reynolds Price, "NC Bookwatch" will rebroadcast their 2009 interview with the writer this Saturday.
Price appeared in an October 2009 episode discussing his third memoir, "Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back," in which he covered the time of his life spent at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and the years leading up to the publication of his first novel, "A Long and Happy Life."
Here's what the UNC-TV press release said about the book and the interview back in 2009:
If you're reading this blog, you're a fan of TV, and as a fan you'll be sure to enjoy the second season of PBS' "Pioneers of Television" (UNC-TV, 8 tonight) a four-part series airing Tuesdays that starts with a look at classic science fiction.
Kelsey Grammer narrates the series, and the sci-fi episode is delightful. It gives a history of the top storytellers of the genre: Gene Roddenberry, Irwin Allen and Rod Serling, who created "Star Trek," "Lost in Space," and "The Twilight Zone" respectively. While Serling and Roddenberry wanted to tell stories with meaning, Allen was all about action.
Seems the early days of television are not much different than nowadays; "Lost in Space" for instance, was forced to get campy, the show reveals, when the super-campy "Batman" became a hit.
