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Life and Times
Life and Times The Quad Cities only locally produced primetime news magazine. Thursdays at 7:00pm.

Perspective
Perspective Hosted by Susan McPeters—Sometimes serious, sometimes light-hearted, always thought provoking. Fridays at 8:30pm.


Digital Conversion

Get the details about the Digital Conversion that will affect all television viewers. Digital television (DTV) is the newest broadcasting technology that will be coming in 2009.


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Arts & Drama

Featured Program

Most Sundays in March at 8:00pm.

For more than 35 years, MASTERPIECE has enthralled audiences with the works of the finest classic and contemporary writers interpreted by the world's foremost actors. Beginning with "The Complete Jane Austen" this month, Masterpiece Theatre has officially changed its name to simply Masterpiece to reflect a variety of programming.

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Sense and Sensibility
Sunday, April 6
at 8:00pm.

The Complete Jane Austen continues with Sense and Sensibility... in episode 2, two desirable bachelors seem to have spurned the Dashwood sisters, while another suitor has disappeared.

Hattie Morahan (The Golden Compass) plays levelheaded Elinor Dashwood and Charity Wakefield (“Jane Eyre”) is her impulsive sister Marianne. Though poor, they attract a trio of very promising gentlemen: soon-to-be wealthy Edward Ferrars (Dan Stevens, The Line of Beauty), heroic Colonel Brandon (David Morrissey, "State of Play") and Byronic John Willoughby (Dominic Cooper, The History Boys).


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A Room With a View
Sunday, April 13
at 8:00pm.

Elaine Cassidy is Lucy Honeychurch, who arrives at an Italian guest house and is offered a room with a view by Mr. Emerson and his eccentric son, George.


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My Boy Jack
Sunday, April 20
at 8:00pm.

This is the story of British literary giant Rudyard Kipling’s son Jack, who triggers a bitter family conflict when he joins the Irish Guard at the outset of World War I. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) plays Jack, with Kim Cattrall (“Sex and the City”) as his mother.


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