Theater Talk
Spring 2017 Preview
Theater journalists Jesse Green, Michael Musto and Patrick Pacheco discuss the upcoming productions for spring 2017 in New York City, including revivals of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler, Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard, Sunday in the Park with George starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford, Miss Saigon, Cate Blanchett in The Present, August Wilson's Jitney, Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon swapping roles in The Little Foxes, new plays Sweat, Indecent, Oslo, A Doll's House Part 2 and new musicals Groundhog Day, Anastasia, Amélie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and War Paint starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole.
Co-hosted by Michael Riedel of the New York Post and Susan Haskins.
Sat at 8:30pm
Sun at 12:30pm
Mon at 7:30am, 1:30pm and 7:30pm
(30 minutes)
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Tony Guida's NY
Nina Lorez Collins
New!
 Kathleen Collins was a playwright, filmmaker, activist and more. Her story is mostly untold, until now. Many films, short stories and other works which were just sitting in an old steamer trunk are now being shown and published for the public, thanks to daughter Nina Lorez Collins. Nina talks about her mother's work, their relationship, and the work's impact on her own life.
Host is Tony Guida.
Wed at 9:30am, 4:30pm, 9:30pm
(30 minutes)
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City Cinematheque
South of the Equator: New Cinema from Angola, South Africa & Mozambique
Hollow City (2004)
(Angola|Portugal, Portuguese w/English subtitles, color, 90 min.) Director/Writer: Maria Joao Ganga.
A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach an airplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to get to the city. The nun then starts her unceasing quest for the missing boy. N'Dala, only carrying a textile bag and a doll made of wire, walks through the busy streets filled with people and traffic. Later he finds the tranquility of the island off the coast, where he meets the old fisherman Antonio, with whom he becomes friends.
Then he meets the lively, whimsical Ze, who is a little older than he is. N'Dala starts to experience the city and its inhabitants as increasingly forbidding, and he wants to return to his countryside. Then he meets Joka, a fringe figure who persuades him to help with a robbery in exchange for money.
Host Jerry Carlson's post-film discussion guest is Charles Martin, Queens College/CUNY.
Sat at 9pm
Sun at 9pm
(Film: 90 minutes, Discussion: 30 minutes)
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TimesTalks
Meryl Streep
 For almost 40 years, Meryl Streep has portrayed an astonishing array of characters on stage and screen, garnering three Academy Awards for Best Actress and an unsurpassed record of 19 nominations. Her latest film is Stephen Frears's Florence Foster Jenkins, based on the inspiring true story of an eccentric New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer. Florence Foster Jenkins is just one of a number of hit films in which Ms. Streep has sung, including Into the Woods, for which she earned her 19th Oscar nomination, Ricki and the Flash, Mamma Mia, Prairie Home Companion and Silkwood, among others. Interviewer is New York Times chief classical music critic Anthony Tommasini.
Fri at 8am, 4pm, and 9pm
Sat at 11pm
Sun at midnight
(60 minutes)
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Italics
Television for the Italian American Experience
Photographer Tony Vaccaro | NOIAW Honors Wise Women
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The 2017 season premiere of ITALICS features veteran photographer Tony Vaccaro, whose career spans iconic WWII images, cinema stars, fashion, and influential artists. Above: Lucia Grillo interviews Mr. Vacccaro in his studio. Plus: A National Organization of Italian American Women (NOIAW) event with Francesco Genuardi, Consul General of Italy In New York.
Wed at 10am, 3pm and 11pm
(30 minutes)
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Meet John Doe
(1941)
(123 min., b&w, drama) Director: Frank Capra.
A common man (Gary Cooper) is exploited by a newspaper writer (Barbara Stanwyck).
Sunday at 1pm
(123 minutes)
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Closer To Truth
Can Enlarged Materialism Explain Consciousness?
New!
Materialism is the belief that only physical things are real. But physical things seem so utterly different from mental things. Could there be more to materialism than the known laws of physics? Host is Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
Tue at 7:30am, 1:30pm, 7:30pm
(30 minutes)
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One to One
Tara Clancy, Author
The Clancys of Queens
Encore
In The Clancys of Queens, author Tara Clancy illuminates the working class Irish and Italian residents of Broad Channel - a little known island in Jamaica Bay - plus a raucous and loving family, and a rambunctious little girl who will grow up to be a writer. Host is Sheryl McCarthy.
Mon at 7am, 1pm, 6pm
(30 minutes)
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ATW's Working in the Theatre
Steppenwolf / Theatrical Design
featuring Steppenwolf Theatre Company co-founder
Jeff Perry and Steppenwolf ensemble members
Laurie Metcalf,
Amy Morton and
Rondi Reed.
Taped February 21, 2008.
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Science Goes to the Movies
Rosario Gennaro -
Zero Days / Mr. Robot
New!
Rosario Gennaro, Director of City College's Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software, joins host Faith Salie to talk about cyber security and hacking as they're depicted in the hit USA show, Mr. Robot, and Alex Gibney's Showtime documentary Zero Days.  Gennaro offers his take on the rise of hacking around the world and how Mr. Robot contributes to false impressions of computer scientists and hackers while being careful to make sure the hacking in the show is believable to them. "Ethical hacking" is defined and the growing problem of "Ransomware" is discussed, as well as the significance of the release of the virus known as Stuxnet, and how it has already begun to transform warfare in the digital age.
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Best of Nueva York 2016
Irka Mateo, Vicentico, Lydia Cacho, Latino Pride Center, Salesianos, Susana Baca
Encore
 Nueva York begins in Queens, with singer and folklorist Irka Mateo, who speaks about how her research into her Afro-Latin and Taíno roots led her to develop her musical style in her most recent production, Vamo a gozá.
 Vicentico, singer, composer and co-founder of the famous Argentinean group Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, talks about his career as a solo artist and about his most recent album, Último.
At the Cervantes Institute, Patricio Lerzundi interviews Lydia Cacho, the great journalist and human rights activist who, despite constant death threats in her native Mexico, continues with her reporting on abuse against women. She advocates for the creation and implementation of laws for abusers to pay for their crimes.
In the West Village, we witness the largest demonstration of solidarity with the LGBTQ community. Members of the Latino Pride Center explain why the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando united and further reaffirmed their fight for better understanding and tolerance of their community.
In Nuevo Laredo in Mexico, a report on the Salesianos, a religious group who, through educational and social projects, support Central American and Mexican migrants who are facing challenges in their attempts to cross the border.
 To finish up, Carmen Boullosa interviews Peruvian singer Susana Baca, who talks about her start in the music industry, the current state of Afro-Peruvian music on the world scene, and about her new book, The Bitter Road of Sugarcane: the African in Peru.
In Spanish with English subtitles. Hosted by Mexican novelist and critic Carmen Boullosa and Chilean journalist and writer Patricio Lerzundi, both faculty members of The City University of New York.
Thu at 10am, 4pm, 10pm
Sat at 2:30pm
(30 minutes)
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Asian American Life
January 2017
Encore
Paul Lin reports on Filipino Americans' views on Philippines President
Rodrigo Duterte, also known as the Trump of the East.
Kyung Yoon discusses the changing face of
Christianity with Asian Americans.
 Ernabel Demillo interviews the cast of
Disney's Aladdin, one of Broadway's musical blockbusters.
 Minnie Roh meets author
Patricia Park, whose book
Re Jane is taking Hollywood by storm.
Fri at 10am, 3pm, 8:30pm
Sun at 12pm
(30 minutes)
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La Grande Librairie
La Grande Librairie presents recent literary news, with host François Busnel. This week's guests are Leila Slimani, Raphael Liogier, Boris Cyrulnik, Boualem Sansal, Laurent Mauvignier, and Sigolene Vinson. In French.
Sat at 12:30pm
Sun at 6:30pm
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Best of Canapé
New!
Canapé spotlights world musician Manu Chao in Brooklyn; Cajun band Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys; Joann Sfar, author of Klezmer: Tales of the Wild East; Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, a tribute to Serge Gainsbourg; and African musician Dobet Gnahore at B.B. King's Club.
In French, subtitled in English.
Thu at 10:30am, 4:30pm, 10:30pm
Sat at 2pm
(30 minutes)
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Study With The Best
CUNY TV's Flagship Series About CUNY
 All about music and CUNY.
Nisan Ak (left) is a conductor - one of the few females in her field - who was born in Turkey and educated at the Aaron Copland School of Music.
Arturo O'Farrill, who runs the jazz studies department at Brooklyn College, has had a long and revered career in music. The Graduate Center's
Research Center for Music Iconography houses fascinating images about music.
CUNY's Cultural Corps is a new paid internship program that places students in cultural institutions around the city. And
Jasmin Klinger is a City College student who recently wrote music for a new film by Domenica Cameron-Scorsese.
Sun at 8am, 8pm
Wed at 8am, 2pm, 10pm
(30 minutes)
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Day at Night
Jacob Bronowski,
Historian of Science
 Dr. Jacob Bronowski, a British scientist and writer, explains his view that scientific endeavors should be relevant to the needs of society. He also shares his ideas about poetry. Taped April 9, 1974.
Day At Night is the classic public television interview program from 1973-1974, hosted by the late James Day, former president of both KQED and WNET. This episode was restored by CUNY Television.
Fri at 9:30am, 2:30pm, and 8pm
(30 minutes)
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Great American Authors Since 1650
1950-1957
New!
Authors include: 1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks wins the Pulitzer Prize; 1951 - Salinger and Plath set the stage for the Baby Boomer generation; 1952 - Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin speak for the American black male; 1957 - Jack Kerouac brings the Beat Generation to American literature; 1957 - Dr. Seuss writes The Cat in the Hat.
Fri at 9am, 2pm
(30 minutes)
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