BOSTON (Apr. 27, 2010) – Create TV – the commercial-free channel dedicated exclusively to the best of public television’s how-to shows – announces new seasons of favorite programs for
May and
June.
The Endless Feast (Season 2) brings together local farmers, food artisans, food lovers and star chefs, to explore the connection between the land and the food on our plates. Episodes feature dinners set in beautiful outdoor locations, from farm fields to vineyards to urban community gardens, to celebrate food at its source. Locations include: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Whitefish, Montana; the Arkansas Delta; Greenwood, Mississippi; New Orleans, Louisiana; Brooklyn, New York; Boxford, Massachusetts and Virginia.
The Endless Feast is produced by Film Garden Entertainment and presented and distributed by American Public Television.
For Your Home returns to help home-improvement enthusiasts translate their design dreams into reality. In each episode, DIY expert Vicki Payne provides practical ideas and hands-on projects for the home and garden. This season includes a mini-series on "Building Your Custom Home." Over the course of nine episodes, the FYH team builds and decorates a home from the ground up — from constructing the frame to landscaping the grounds. In one episode, Vicki also helps design a sorely needed space for Victory Junction, a special camp for kids with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses.
For Your Home (Season 26) is produced by Cutter Productions, presented by UNC-TV and distributed by American Public Television.
In
Woodsmith Shop, the pages of Woodsmith magazine come to life in this unique public television series. Each episode is built around a theme and teaches the skills and safe tool techniques necessary to build a variety of woodworking projects in a home shop. Host Don Peschke, founding editor of
Woodsmith magazine, leads a cast of editors and project designers as they explore a wide range of tips, tools, jigs and fixtures, and techniques.
Woodsmith Shop (Season 3) is produced and presented by Iowa Public Television and distributed by NETA.
More than 226 public television stations – representing 82% of U.S. TV households – carry Create TV nationwide. Create is produced and distributed by APT, WNET, and WGBH Boston in association with NETA and PBS.
Viewers can watch Create TV via digital broadcast and/or basic digital cable. Visit www.CreateTV.com for more information, TV schedules, program descriptions, recipes, news, shopping, tips, DIY instructions and more.
About Create™:
Create™ is the dynamic TV channel that spotlights many of television's most popular how-to, cooking, arts and crafts and travel series. Create is produced and distributed by APT, Thirteen/WNET and WGBH Boston in association with National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) and PBS.
About the Entities That Make Create TV Possible:
American Public Television:
American Public Television (APT) has been a leading distributor of high-quality, top-rated programming to America’s public television stations since 1961. In 2009, APT distributed 56 of the top 100 highest-rated public television titles. Among its 300 new program titles per year are prominent documentaries, news and current affairs programs, dramatic series, how-to programs, children’s series and classic movies, including
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots, A Ripple of Hope, Rick Steves' Europe, Newsline, Globe Trekker, Simply Ming, America's Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated, Lidia's Italy, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, Murdoch Mysteries, Doc Martin, Rosemary and Thyme, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, The Great American Songbook and
John Denver: The Wildlife Concert. APT also licenses programs internationally through its APT Worldwide service. In 2006, APT launched Create™ – the TV channel featuring the best of public television's lifestyle programming. For more information about APT’s programs and services, visit APTonline.org.
WNET.ORG:
New York public media company WNET.ORG is a pioneering provider of television and web content. The parent of Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group, WNET.ORG brings such acclaimed broadcast series and websites as
Worldfocus, Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Charlie Rose, Wide Angle, Secrets of the Dead, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Visions, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, Wild Chronicles, Miffy and Friends and
Cyberchase to national and international audiences. Through its wide range of channels and platforms, WNET.ORG serves the entire New York City metro area with unique local productions, broadcasts and innovative educational and cultural projects. In all that it does, WNET.ORG pursues a single, overarching goal – to create media experiences of lasting significance for New York, America and the world. For more information, visit www.wnet.org .
WGBH Boston:
WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, the source of one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup, along with some of public television's best-known lifestyle shows and children's programs and many public radio favorites. WGBH is the number one producer of Web sites on pbs.org, the most-visited dot-org on the Internet. WGBH is a pioneer in educational multimedia and in technologies and services that make media accessible to the 36 million Americans who rely on captioning or video descriptions. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys, Peabodys, duPont-Columbia Awards…even two Oscars. In 2002, WGBH was honored with a special institutional Peabody Award for 50 years of excellence. For more information, visit www.wgbh.org.
National Educational Telecommunications Association:
The National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) is a professional association that serves public television licensees and educational entities in all 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. NETA serves by connecting people and ideas, by providing quality programming, educational resources, professional development, management support and national representation. For more information, visit www.NETAonline.org.
Public Broadcasting Service:
PBS is a media enterprise that serves 355 public noncommercial television stations and reaches nearly 73 million people each week through on-air and online content. Bringing diverse viewpoints to television and the Internet, PBS provides high-quality documentary and dramatic entertainment, and consistently dominates the most prestigious award competitions. More information about PBS is available at www.pbs.org, one of the leading dot-org Web sites on the Internet.
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