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TV Tidbits - PBS program will take a look at pottery in the state
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Published: October 4, 2009
Potters from North Carolina will be featured in a new episode of Craft in America, an award-winning series, at 8 p.m. Wednesday on UNC-TV.
The episode looks at the influence of N.C. pottery. It includes interviews with Vernon and Pam Owens of Jugtown Pottery in Seagrove, and Mark Hewitt of Hewitt's Pottery in Pittsboro.
The North Carolina Pottery Center will hold viewing party/fundraisers around the state to coincide with the broadcast, including in Winston-Salem, Wilmington, Asheboro and Charlotte. For more information, go to www.ncpotterycenter.com.
Time Warner Cable will add new channels to its high-definition lineup on Oct. 28. They are: BBC America HD (Channel 592), Turner Classic Movies HD (593), Investigation Discovery HD (594), Headline News HD (595), MSNBC HD (596), TruTV HD (597) and six new HBO HD channels for subscribers who get the HBO package.
Showtime and the BBC have announced a new series starring Matt LeBlanc, one of the stars of the hit series Friends. The series Episodes will follow a British couple who created a comedy series that became a hit in Britain and watch as it is turned into a dumbed-down American version starring LeBlanc, who plays himself, parodying his own image.
The premise will sound familiar to anyone who followed Coupling, a brilliant British comedy series created by Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue, a husband-and-wife team. The series ran from 2000 to 2004 on British TV. In 2003 it was picked up by NBC for an American remake. The result was lousy and was canceled after four episodes aired.
Episodes will air in 2010.
Another British series,
Primeval, is getting rescued from extinction thanks to American audiences.
The series was canceled in Britain after three seasons, ending on a cliffhanger. But it got a loyal following on BBC America and on DVD. Now, BBC America is joining with British network ITV to produce 13 new episodes that will air overseas and in the United States in 2011.
The series is from one of the producers of the documentary hit Walking With Dinosaurs. It follows a team of scientists investigating holes in time that allow creatures from prehistoric times to enter the modern world.
Ken Burns' latest documentary epic, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, concluded Friday, and it's already coming to DVD and Blu-ray. The boxed set will be released Tuesday. The documentary was shot over six years and includes plenty of spectacular scenery.
Also coming to DVD on Tuesday: the first season of Ally McBeal, the popular 1990s legal comedy-drama about a single female lawyer (for diehard fans, there is also a $200 complete-series boxed set out Tuesday); the first season of Travel Channel's Man v. Food, which combines travelogue and a look at fun restaurants, including a stop in the Triangle; the fourth season of the lively Fox crime drama Bones; the fifth season of Medium, which just switched networks from NBC to CBS; and Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, a sequel to the long-running British sci-fi comedy, available on DVD and Blu-ray.
tclodfelter@wsjournal.com
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