New Call The Midwife really delivers
Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
Find a new favorite British series this weekend when KET premieres Call the Midwife.
This moving, intimate, funny and true-to-life series is based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth and tells colorful stories of midwifery and families in London’s East End in the 1950s.
The series follows Jenny Lee, a young woman raised in the wealthy English countryside who become a nurse. As a newly qualified midwife, she goes to work in the poorest area of the city. Jenny becomes part of a team of women who minister to expectant mothers, many of whom give birth at home in appalling conditions. She meets her patients and learns to love the people who live in the East End.
The six-part series premieres Sunday, Sept. 30 at 8/7 pm CT on KET2 and at 10/9 pm CT on KET.
Note: Call the Midwife contains mature content that may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised, and the program is rated TV-14.
Call the Midwife first premiered earlier this year in the U.K. Attracting 11.4 million viewers for its peak episode, Call the Midwife was the highest-rated BBC new drama debut on record.
Dread Clampitt, a “funky bluegrass fusion” of rock, jazz, bluegrass and Louisiana bayou funk, performs on the next edition of Jubilee, recorded live at the third-annual International Newgrass Festival in Bowling Green, KY. The program premieres Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 8/7 pm CT on KET and Saturday, Sept. 29 at 11/10 pm CT on KET2.
In the season premiere of Education Matters, “Taking the Pulse of Kentucky Education,” top officials and Kentucky’s educators of the year discuss the state’s progress in implementing the new Kentucky Core Academic Standards and examine the spring 2012 statewide assessments. The program airs Monday, Sept. 24 at 9/8 pm CT on KET.
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