PBS Primetime Programming for the Week of January 3

The New Year is upon us! Well, yes, it was truly upon us last week, but this is the first full week of the New Year, and thus I'm declaring it upon us. Here's the thing about new years – they're not really new. I mean, the number is different, but you are essentially the same person you were the day before. Plus, let's face it, the year change is kind of arbitrary, isn't it?

Sunday, January 3:

8:00 - 9:00PM

Nature – "White Falcon, White Wolf.” Oh, Canada. You have many places where the winter lasts for well more than half the year. One of those places is Ellesmere Island, where white gyrfalcons and Arctic wolves live. How does their life cycle exactly work? I hope it has to do with huddling together for warmth.

9:00 – 11:00PM

Masterpiece – "Cranford – Episode 3". This is part three of a three-part series based on the writing of Elizabeth Gaskell. Better than that though, it's about a small, little, tiny, miniature, if you will, English village which, for some reason, "comes to life with gossip, parties, romances, sudden death, bankruptcy, and the railroad."

Monday, January 4:

8:00 - 9:00PM

Antiques Roadshow - "Raleigh." Ah, North Carolina, or, as I like to call it, Tobacco Town. Yes, I know it's a state, but if I were to call it a state then there would be a complete lack of alliteration, and I’m all for alliteration. I'm not sure that there will be alliteration in North Carolina's trip to the Roadshow (or even the Roadshow's trip to North Carolina), but that doesn't mean that I'm not willing to try to make it happen.

9:00 – 11:00PM

This Emotional Life – "Family, Friends & Lovers." This is a three-part series which looks at just how we can go about improving our relationships, coping with depression, anxiety, perhaps even general distress. The series will actually be discussing science, things like neurological processes, cognitive what-nots, and other intelligent things. Plus, tonight there'll even be a young boy who was adopted from a Russian orphanage.

Tuesday, January 5:

8:00 – 9:00PM

Nova - “Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor.” In December of 1941 the USS Arizona sank – you probably saw the movie, it was one of those Bruckheimer dealies – anyway, now people are starting to think that maybe, just maybe, the boat didn't go down due to the Japanese fighters. It turns out that it may have been subs who took out the Arizona. Watch and see what just may be the truth.

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