PRESS RELEASE — Monday, April 21, 2008
For information contact: Karen Svea Johnson at 373-7369
or Anne Peterson at 373-7368

Special PBS Programming Preempts Regular IdahoPTV Shows

— Five-part CARRIER series runs five nights, from Sunday, April 27, through Thursday, May 1, at 8:00 p.m. MT/PT on analog channel
— CARRIER repeats on analog station beginning Monday, April 28, at 1:00 a.m./12:00 midnight MT/PT
— CARRIER airs on IdahoPTV HDTV channel beginning Sunday, April 27, at 7:00/6:00 p.m. MT/PT and 10:00/9:00 p.m. MT/PT
— Four-part UNNATURAL CAUSES: IS INEQUALITY MAKING US SICK? Series airs from Sunday, April 27, through Wednesday, April 30, at 10:00 p.m. MT/PT on analog channel

In order to accommodate two special series from PBS, regular IdahoPTV programming will be preempted at the end of April. CARRIER preempts regular primetime shows from Sunday, April 27, through Thursday, May 1. UNNATURAL CAUSES: IS INEQUALITY MAKING US SICK? follows that series on Sunday through Wednesday.

From May through November 2005, PBS filmmakers had unprecedented access to the USS Nimitz and its crew during a six-month deployment in the Persian Gulf. Looking at the Navy’s role in the current war, "CARRIER is a character-driven, edge-of-your-seat, nonfiction drama and a once-in-a-lifetime total immersion into the high stakes world of a nuclear aircraft carrier," says executive producer and director Maro Chermayeff.

The 10-part series follows a core group that represents a range of onboard duties, from the elite fighter pilots to the youngest sailors – and everyone in between. Viewers get insight to individual personalities as the military men and women navigate personal conflicts surrounding their jobs, families, personal and religious beliefs, and the war on terrorism. The conflicts and challenges often highlight individual and collective rites of passage.

This megaseries runs for five consecutive nights at 8:00 p.m. MT/PT, beginning on the last Sunday in April and extending into May. Overnight repeats on the analog channel offer viewers the opportunity to record episodes to view at their convenience. The series also airs on the same evenings as the premieres of the episodes on the high-definition (HD) channel at 7:00/6:00 p.m. and 10:00/9:00 p.m MT/PT.

UNNATURAL CAUSES: IS INEQUALITY MAKING US SICK? looks at the socio-economic and racial divisions that profoundly and negatively affect health and healthcare in the U.S. Over the course of four nights, filmmakers cross the nation to discover the factors that make us sick in the first place, and provide insight to new findings that suggest poor health is more than bad habits, inadequate health care or unlucky genes. The series focuses in on a slow killer in plain view: the social circumstances in which we are born, live and work that can affect our risk for disease as surely as germs and viruses.

UNNATURAL CAUSES airs Sunday, April 27, through Wednesday, April 30, at 10:00 p.m. MT/PT.

Regularly scheduled primetime programming resumes after the conclusion of both series.

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