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Time Shift Your TV – Girl Vs. Monster

Olivia Holt as Skylar When our sons were younger, we loved to watch Disney’s Hocus Pocus movie – starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy – at this time of year. That film came out...

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Time Shift Your TV – A Mythbusters Halloween

Discovery’s crazy science guys, the Mythbusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, are getting into the Halloween spirit of things, testing three Halloween inspired myths. In the show’s first Halloween...

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Time Shift Your TV – Rethinking Dyslexia

My younger brother, Peter, grew up battling dyslexia. I remember how he struggled in school until it was finally diagnosed, and he got help from a tutor. It was frustrating for him and for my parents....

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Time Shift Your TV – What Are Animals Thinking?

Our dog, Max, makes me feel guilty all the time. It’s not just the look on his cute little Schnoodle face. It’s that he wags his tail, jumps and barks at almost the same time every day. Yes, he’s...

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Time Shift Your TV – Princess Sofia, Superstorm Sandy and Mars

Three very different new – and newsy – shows this week might be worth your time. The first is PBS’ new NOVA episode, Ultimate Mars Challenge. In August, NASA’s rover, Curiosity, successfully landed on...

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Time Shift Your TV – Mankind

We’re getting epic this week with History Channel’s Mankind: The Story of All of Us. In 12 hours of television — two hours airing over six consecutive Tuesday nights at 9 p.m., Mankind starts with a...

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Time Shift Your TV – Inventions USA

  Inventions are the theme this week – on TV and in real life. Our son is applying to the engineering school at the University of Virginia, and one of the questions on his college application is...

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Time Shift Your TV – Classic Films, a PBS Contest

December is always a great time of year to do some serious time-shifting of your TV. Consult channel guides and set your DVR for the many classic films that air throughout the month, so that you can...

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Time Shift Your TV – Happy Hanukkah!

The National Menorah is lit in Washington DC On Saturday in New York, the first night of Hanukkah was marked with the lighting of the “World’s Largest Hanukkah Menorah” in Grand Army Plaza in...

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Time Shift Your TV – White House Christmas

This week is likely to bring more devastatingly sad images from the tragic school shooting in Connecticut on television. If your children want to talk about what happened, you need to be ready to...

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Time Shift Your TV – Discovery Channel’s Africa

Black Rhino, featured in Africa, a Discovery Channel/BBC production. Did you happen to catch any of the Planet Earth, Life or Frozen Planet nature series? All were beautifully filmed, informative...

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Time Shift Your TV – Beauty Is Embarrassing

“Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.”  That excellent advice comes from artist Wayne White in the film Beauty Is Embarrassing, airing  January 21st at 10 p.m. on PBS as part...

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Time Shift Your TV –‘Betty & Coretta’

Angela Bassett as Coretta Scott King and Mary J. Blige as Betty Shabazz Each February, Black History Month offers an opportunity to spend some time with the family revisiting famous African-Americans...

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Time Shift Your TV – Picturing the Presidents

While President Obama’s inauguration is still somewhat fresh in our minds, it’s a good time to tune in to Smithsonian Channel’s Picturing the Presidents. Any time, in fact, is a good time to catch the...

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Time Shift Your TV – Oscar-Nominated Animated Feature Films

©DISNEY/PIXAR, 2012 At Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, only one movie was deemed the winner in each category. Even so, all five movies nominated in the Animated Feature Films category offer fine, fun family...

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Time Shift Your TV – Are We Alone?

E.T., phone home! The concept of aliens, extraterrestrials and creatures from outer space has always intrigued us. Classic scripted TV shows, such as Lost in Space, Star Trek and Twilight Zone, right...

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Elementary

Imagine eating on the Periodic Table. Pass the Na. Somewhere between the start of baseball season and the end of March Madness, our family stumbled upon a two-hour special that was funny, intriguing...

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Time Shift Your TV – Biz Kid$

In Biz Kid$, band members raise funds at a local diner. Money can be one of those troublesome topics for parents. Questions about allowance, savings, buying and spending all crop up sooner or later....

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Parents’ Choice 2013 Television Award Winners

We are very excited to announce our 2013 Parents’ Choice Television Award winners! Good television generates conversations and teaches lessons that carry over long after the credits have rolled. We...

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Time Shift Your TV – 50 Children

In what is sure to be an inspiring, gut-wrenching and moving story, 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus airs on HBO on Monday, April 8 at 10 p.m. (with repeat showings throughout the...

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