Are you from the Adirondacks or have you ever spent time there? Do you have an Adirondack memory? Watch the show tonight at 9:00 p.m. and then share your story here.
 This week, the 31st International Wildlife Film Festival is happening in Missoula, Montana. Channel 2's original series "Wild Florida" received two honorable mentions for educational value at the festival this year, and as one of the producers of the series I am excited to attend the festivities and to meet with others in the field of natural history programming. As producers, we often get so wrapped up in the day-to-day grind of deadline pressures that we find ourselves with little time to step back to examine our work and to share ideas with others in our field. Having an opportunity to see what others are working on and to bounce ideas off each other is invaluable to make sure we produce quality programming that is not only entertaining but also of value to you, our audience. Today's focus at the festival is on "Saving our Seas", in particular the environmental pressures our oceans are facing today and how we, as the media, can inform our viewers about important ocean issues. For us Floridians, the oceans play especially important roles in our lives and their continued health and exploration are vital to our economy. Here at Channel 2 we are in the process of trying to find funding for a new series called "Changing Seas" that would explore these types of stories. Today's sessions are particularly beneficial in helping us determine how such a series would best be presented to get out important information in a way that is not only entertaining, but also meets the neeeds of our community.
Alexa Elliott
THE ADIRONDACKS, airs Wednesday, May 14 at 9:00 p.m. on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami
Sprawled across six million acres in upstate New York, the Adirondack Park is by far the largest park in the lower 48 states. Yet it is the only one on the continent in which large human populations live and whose land is divided almost evenly between protected wilderness and privately owned tracts. This patchwork pattern of land ownership has created an utterly unique place that maintains, at its very heart, a delicate and dynamic relationship between progress and preservation. Through the varied perspectives of several passionate characters, this high-definition program explores the remarkable history, seasonal landscape and current state of the Adirondacks.
 Masterpiece Mystery, which premieres with the a new title, as part of the three headed, reinvented Masterpiece (formerly Masterpiece Theatre), joining Masterpiece Classic and Masterpiece Contemporary, today announced the program's new host, Alan Cumming. Look for him and Masterpiece Mystery on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami later this summer.
 Join WPBT - Channel 2 and uVu at Generation Engage’s Affordable Health Care Forum. This free event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, May 14 at Jackson Memorial Hospital Room 259. Florida State Representative and long time healthcare reform advocate, René Garcia, will be speaking on issues surrounding affordable healthcare. Affordable Healthcare Forum
In this National election year, the goal of this event is for people to gain a better understanding of how to take charge of their health and how the healthcare system really works in Florida.
Come Join us to learn what steps the state is taking to reform the healthcare system to make it more affordable! This is your chance to have access to decision and policy makers and highlights from this event will be posted on our website, uVu.
Invited speakers include: Rene Garcia, FL State Legislator who is passionate about reforming the healthcare syetem in Florida and
a member of the Public Health Trust from Jackson Memorial
When: May 14th at 5:30 p.m.
Where: Jackson Memorial Hospital
RSVP or to become a GenerationEngage Member contact:
Ali.Ingersoll@GenerationEngage.org or call (954) 303-5585
NOVA: A Walk to Beautiful, airs Tuesday, May 13 at 8:00 p.m. on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami
This program tells the story of three women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, the women are left to spend the rest of their lives in loneliness and shame. NOVA follows each of them on their journey to a special hospital in Addis Ababa, where they find solace for the first time in years, and stays with them as their lives begin to change. The trials they endure and their attempts to rebuild their lives tell a universal story of hope, courage and transformation.
A new and revised version of the classic PBS series, The Electric Company is coming soon. It promises to be a little hipper, more contemporary and provide just as much fun and learning.
You can read about it in today's New York Times, click here.
 GREAT PERFORMANCES: The Israel Philharmonic 70th Anniversary Gala Concert, encores on Sunday, May 11 at 3:00 p.m. on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami, in honor of the 60th Anniversary of Israel.
Founded in 1936 by Polish violinist and Zionist Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra — known at that time as the Palestine Orchestra — was established to save Jewish musicians in Europe from the imminent Holocaust. Consistently ranked among the world's leading orchestras, the Israel Philharmonic boasts a long list of accomplished composers, conductors and guest soloists who have contributed to its rich history and critical acclaim. In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the orchestra's founding, GREAT PERFORMANCES travels to Tel Aviv, Israel, to take part in a gala concert paying tribute to the social significance and musical pedigree of this esteemed organization. Under the baton of Maestro Zubin Mehta — given the title Music Director for Life in 1981 — the IPO gala features Maurice Ravel's “La Valse,” Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with guest soloist and longtime friend of the IPO Pinchas Zukerman and Brahms' D Minor Piano Concerto No. 1 with pianist Daniel Barenboim.
If you'd like to see how South Florida celebrated Israel's 60th, click here on uVu.
PBS celebrated National Poetry Month in April with 30 Days of Poetry -- which are now available Online and On Air.
Beginning in April, Poetry Everywhere, took a fresh look at poetry. Using a variety of production approaches, that featured films of poets reading their own work, animated interpretations of much-loved poems, and celebrities reading personal favorites. WPBT will be airing the videos at unexpected moments during their broadcast schedules but we also have them available on demand at our video site, uVu.
Poetry Everywhere Executive Producer Brigid Sullivan explains, "We hope that this project will expose a diverse audience to a broad spectrum of poetic voices; build an appreciation and an audience for poetry; and increase the presence of poets and poetry within the two most ubiquitous media in American popular culture." David Grubin, the series producer, "hopes that poetry will become a part of the PBS landscape, offering moments of meditation and even revelation throughout the day."
Continue reading "Poetry Everywhere...especially on uVu" »
FRONTLINE: Storm Over Everest, airs Tuesday, May 13 at 9:00 p.m. on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami.
Watch a preview clip here
As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast-moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their summit climb, were soon lost in darkness, in a fierce blizzard, far from the safety of high camp at 26,000 feet. World-renowned climber and filmmaker David Breashears returns to Everest to tell the story of the climbers who perished in that storm, marking the worst climbing tragedy in Mount Everest's history. More remarkably, it is the story of 11 climbers caught in the storm and the eyewitness accounts of their astonishing survival in the world's most unforgiving environment.
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