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UCTN Programming
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The Red Dog Music
Legacy Series |
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A musical performance
venue before a live audience, with in-depth
discussions by the artists who perform in each
program. Well known performers, as well as
up and coming new artists in contemporary,
blues, folk, country, and jazz will be the
featured guests each week.
(26 one-hour shows)
Copyright © 2004 |
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Ruby Moon - The Series |
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A dramatic series, set
against the background of the Civil War, about a
spirited young girl, coming of age as a domestic
servant, to a prominent Upstate New York family.
Inspired from the national award winning PBS
show "Susquehanna Stories", the original
producing/creative team returns to spearhead the
entire project.
(13 half-hour shows)
Copyright © 2004 |
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Voices in the Dark |
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A selection of classic
ghost stories from the works of M.R. James,
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Wilkie Collins, William
Hope Hodgson, Hector Hugh Monroe, and others.
Simply told and full of atmosphere, these
stories, from the last 150 years, will explore
the supernatural as well as the psychological
realm. (13 half-hour shows)
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Going Back - Memories
of Childhood |
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A documentary series based
on different individual's recollections of
childhood places or events, and how they changed
that person's life. These small intimate
stories of everyday people, with memories both
comic and sometimes poignant, would be a touching
reminder of how our childhood moulds us as
adults.
(13 half-hour shows)
Copyright © 2004 |
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Tomorrow's Planet |
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This show would act as an
umbrella for environmental friendly concerns,
and programming that would incorporate several
major themes.
(26 half hour shows)
Copyright © 2004 |
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American Food, From the
Ground to the New Consumer |
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This innovative look at
institutions, producers, and consumers of food
products, will create a new awareness of one
of America's most prolific and least understood
commodities. Who will train the next
generation of food producers and how can the
public's buying habits adapt to an ever-changing
marketplace, transformed by the influence of a
new, global economy.
Copyright © 2004 |
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Water Wars |
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Privatization of one the
world's last natural resources is beginning to
emerge as a major issue in the global world of
"water rights". From drought,
deforestation, irrigation, national and state's
rights', to profit driven multi-national greed,
this in-depth program looks at present and past practices
that suggest startling consequences for the
future, which will serve as a "wake up" call
for a vanishing resource.
Copyright © 2004 |
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Recycler |
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The show that will examine
not only what is happening in the industrial
recycling business, but how you can benefit from
simple recycling ideas. We'll show you how
to build furniture, redecorate your home, clothe
and feed yourself, even build a home for less.
From phone books to shelving units, pallets to
bed frames and cardboard to armchairs, after
watching this show you will never throw anything
away again.
Copyright © 2004 |
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Green Architecture
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Why is the USA so slow to
adopt energy conservation and anti-pollution
criteria, while Europe is already incorporating
many aspects of these new technologies?
Will it take the Federal government to lead the
way, with an emphasis on "Green" concerns for
governmental buildings? We will examine what's
at stake if we do not start to think long term
for architecture and urban planning.
Copyright © 2004 |
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American Journal |
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A history series that
examines all aspects of Colonial and Victorian
life in the US. The show would attempt to
capture the history and spirit of previous eras
through antiques, crafts and traditional
building techniques of the time. Subjects
would be viewed in their social and cultural
context and their historical significance.
(13
half hour shows)
Copyright © 2004 |
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The Viking |
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The story of a group of
kids who accidentally unleash a 1000 year-old
curse involving warring Norsemen. This
comedic tale of kids who befriend a good Viking
to defeat evil, is funny, poignant, and the
perfect family film. (Independent motion
picture of TV movie).
Copyright © 2004 |
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Fuller's Mountain |
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When Nick Fuller falls in
love with his deceased best friends' wife and
mother of a young boy, he learns that accepting
responsibility for someone other than himself,
is a life changing experience. This "love
conquers all" story is heartfelt and inspiring.
(Independent motion picture or TV movie).
Copyright © 2004 |
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Carleton E. Watkins |
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A docu-drama based on the
life of Carleton E. Watkins, the nineteenth
century photographer. Thought by many to
be the finest landscape photographer of his
time, Watkin's life story and his incredible
body of work is a fascinating chronicle of the
history of the western states in the second half
of the 1800's to the turn of the century.
At the end of his life, he was blind, forgotten
by society, disowned by his family, died
destitute and was buried in an unmarked grave.
(TV
Movie)
Copyright © 2004 |
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Death Where is Thy
Sting |
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A feature length
documentary on life's last event.
Including funeral practices of yesteryear and
today. From naive seventeenth century
grave art, to the high pomp of Victorian
rituals, and the more bizarre interments today,
the program will examine how the funeral was
often a reflection on the society from which it
sprang.
(90 minute TV Special)
Copyright © 2004 |
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Kid View - An
Explanation of Almost Everything |
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A series of interstitial
elements of sixty seconds each, based on
interviews with small children and their
descriptions of things they obviously have
little, or no knowledge of. The kid's
on-camera material would be intercut with short
pieces of animation, some polished, some simple,
but all eye catching and amusing. A
companion 30 minute "making of" show would also
be produced.
(60 One Minute pieces)
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