Baseball season has started! Baseball season has started! Are we not excited about that? We should totally be excited about that. I’m excited about that. You understand, of course, that it’s baseball, the national pastime, bringer of fun. Good times. Lots of larfs, that sort of thing. That, and, the Yankees. Baseball has the Yankees, and I love the Yankees. My Yankees. Go Yankees!
Sunday, April 8:
8:00 - 9:00PM
Nature - “Encountering Sea Monsters”. Is Nature beyond the point where they feel like they need to come up with, you know, nature stories? Sea monsters? Really? It sounds like a stunt for sweeps. But it’s not sweeps. Weird.
9:00 - 10:30PM
Masterpiece Theatre. “The Wind in the Willows.” This could be really, really cool, right up until Disney pulls it and plops down Winnie The Pooh in its place, you know, with a little nod to Mr. Toad on the floor in one of the scenes, but that’ll be the only reference to the original ride… er, I mean show.
10:30 - 11:00PM
Georgia Aquarium: Keepers of the Deep. It’s as though the aquarium in Georgia has a monopoly on fish by the sound of this title. No? Am I wrong? Do we not have fish elsewhere? Next week watch for Monterey Aquarium: Home of Star Trek.
Monday, April 9:
8:00 - 9:00PM
Antiques Roadshow - “Mobile (Hour Three)”. I know what you’re thinking and you’re wrong (and, not funny, but who am I to throw stones) — this week’s episode is not literally on the road moving around, it’s in Alabama. But, I do want you to know that I appreciate the notion that you’d try and tell a joke, no matter how badly you failed at it. Good on you.
9:00 - 10:30PM
American Experience - “Jonestown: The life and Death of Peoples Temple”. This week American Experience ventures to Guyana. It investigates and relates the history of Jonestown and the mass suicide that occurred there.
10:30 - 11:00PM
When Parents are Deployed - the producers of Sesame Street took a close look at what happens to families in general and children in particular when their parents are sent off to war. It’s hosted by Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr.
Tuesday, April 10:
8:00 - 9:00PM
Nova - “Sinking the Supership”. An in-depth examination of the sinking of the Japanese warship Yamato in April of 1945. Nova actually finds the wreck and uses CGI to show what it was like before sinking. They also discuss how the sinking of the Yamato led to the end of the “great age of battleships.”
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