KCET and Link TV Ignite Conversations About Our Planet in Two New Environmental Series AMERICAN RIVERS and ANGRY PLANET
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Nichole Goodman
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Premiering In April, Two News Shows Call for Protection of the Places We Call Home
kcet.org/angryplanet & linktv.org/angryplanet
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Burbank, Calif. – March 8, 2018 – KCETLink Media Group, a leading national independent nonprofit public broadcast and digital network, announced two new environmental series as part of the networks’ initiative to bring awareness to global issues harming the planet. The new series AMERICAN RIVERS focuses on how humans have stepped in to change our rivers to create a positive and lasting effect on our environment that ensures access to clean water. ANGRY PLANET explores the most extreme forces of nature that are creating the first refugees of climate change, hosted by adventurer George Kourounis.
AMERICAN RIVERS (Five 45-minute episodes)
Learn how rivers have flowed throughout our history and how their existence and production of clean water remains vital, yet continues to worsen. Rivers have been modified and manipulated, forced into man-made paths, controlled by computers; even their flow has been reversed. Premieres Tues., April 3 at 10 p.m. on KCET in Southern California and Premieres on Link TV nationwide Sun., April 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT (encores on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. ET and 4 p.m. PT). Streaming on kcet.org and linktv.org
ANGRY PLANET (Ten 30-minute episodes)
Professional storm chaser George Kourounis experiences the most extreme forces of nature and reports back from the front lines of climate change. With nature becoming less predictable, locals are faced with great environmental threats, making it nearly impossible for them to cope. As the planet heats up, natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe. In a call to action for change, ANGRY PLANET asks the human race to step up and make a difference. Premieres Wed., April 4 at 8 p.m. on KCET in Southern California (encores Wed. at 10:30 p.m. PT and Sun. at 7 p.m. PT). Premieres on Link TV nationwide Wed., April 4 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT (encores Sun., April 8 at 10 p.m. ET/PT). Streaming on YouTube, Roku and Apple TV, kcet.org and linktv.org
Join the conversation on social media using #AmericanRivers and #AngryPlanet
ABOUT KCETLINK MEDIA GROUP
KCETLink Media Group is a national independent, nonprofit, digital and broadcast network that provides high-quality, culturally diverse programming designed to engage the public in innovative, entertaining and transformative ways. With a commitment to independent perspectives, smart global entertainment, local communities, and opportunities for engagement and social action, KCETLink depicts people and the world through a lens unavailable elsewhere in U.S. media. A viewer-supported 501(c)(3) organization, KCETLink content is distributed nationally via satellite on Link TV DIRECTV channel 375 and DISH Network channel 9410 and on KCET in Southern and Central California via broadcast and cable, as well as through various digital delivery systems. For additional information about KCET and Link TV productions, web-exclusive content, programming schedules and community events, please visit kcet.org or linktv.org. Select programming from KCET and Link TV is also available for streaming on Apple TV and Roku platforms.
