Featured Program
NATURE
Superfish
Aired Sunday May 4 at 8:00 p.m. on CPTV
They slice through the water’s surface with explosive power — sail, spear and half a ton of muscle flashing in the sun. Their journeys through the open ocean are epic, their life cycle, bizarre. They are the billfish — marlin, sailfish, spearfish and swordfish — largest and most highly prized of all gamefish. Their astonishing story has never been fully told. Emmy award-winning filmmaker and biologist Rick Rosenthal brings a lifetime of experience with these astonishing sea creatures to the screen as he observes tiny billfish nurseries in the wild, dives deep into secret undersea canyons, films incredible color-changing behavior and embarks on a quest for an elusive thousand-pound “grander.” visit the website...
Dame Judi Dench as Miss Matty Jenkyns
MASTERPIECE™ CLASSIC
Cranford
Aired Sunday May 4 at 9:00 p.m. on CPTV
A sleepy 1840s English village comes to life with gossip, parties, romances, sudden death, bankruptcy and the drama of an encroaching railway on "Cranford," based on the beloved Victorian-era writings of Elizabeth Gaskell.
A cross between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Gaskell’s novels are love stories with a social message, set amid the turmoil of the industrial revolution in England. Cranford was her most popular novel, but MASTERPIECE viewers may know her already from Wives and Daughters, which was adapted for the series to wide acclaim in 2001.
Topping the all-star cast are Judi Dench (Casino Royale) and Eileen Atkins (Cold Mountain) as Matty and Deborah Jenkyns, two unmarried sisters living together in a small town ruled by an eccentric code of antiquated customs. Miss Deborah, the elder sister, is the stern enforcer of Cranford’s decorum, while kind-hearted Miss Matty is content to be swept along by events. "You must gird your loins," she says. "It is all go in Cranford!"
The magnificent cast also includes Michael Gambon (Harry Potter films) as Mr. Holbrook, a melancholy country gentleman who courted Matty decades earlier; Francesca Annis ("Jane Eyre") as Lady Ludlow, the town’s reigning aristocrat, who promotes medieval ideas about public education; and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake) as Miss Pole, who prides herself on being the first with any piece of gossip, accuracy be damned. visit the website...
