Create TV premieres high-profile shows including Spain… on the road Again and Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way.

Boston (December 2, 2008 ) — Create™ TV, the lifestyle channel featuring public television’s favorite talent, continues to expand its diverse range of cooking and travel programming this January as it premieres six new shows featuring breathtaking cuisine, exotic destinations, fascinating home improvement and crafting techniques with a sterling roster of all-star hosts. In January, Create will debut the star-studded culinary road trip show featuring Gwyneth Paltrow and Mario Batali, Spain… on the road Again, and the newest show from acclaimed French chef Jacques Pépin, Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way.

Spain… on the road Again will air on Create Mondays and Wednesdays beginning January 12. The show features Oscar®-winner Gwyneth Paltrow, chef Mario Batali, author/journalist and public television host Mark Bittman and Spanish actress Claudia Bassols on an unscripted, anything-goes, cross-country road-trip through the cuisine, art, history, culture and music of Spain. Spain… on the road Again will be featured in its entirety on a January 10 marathon on the network.

Culinary icon Jacques Pépin returns with a new line-up of healthy, home-cooked meals in Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way, airing on Create Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays beginning January 5. This season, Pépin creates nearly 100 delicious recipes for every occasion — from a light snack to an elegant dinner — using readily available fresh foods, supermarket staples and simple techniques. Taking inspiration from around the world, Pépin's lamb stew, paella and Tibetan bread incorporate Asian, Latin American and diverse European influences and are enhanced by his classic French background. Each episode contains four or more dishes, including one-minute recipes for croque monsieur tidbits, an instant red-pepper dip or butter bean canapés, along with Jacques' valuable tips and techniques. The show will also be featured in a January 3rd marathon on the network.

Master woodworker Scott Phillips crisscrosses the country to showcase the finest examples of woodworking in American Woodshop, airing on Create Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays beginning January 26. Each episode takes viewers inside the woodshop of American craftsmen as they offer tips and techniques on everything from furniture design to carving holiday keepsakes. With a personable style and knowledge of his craft, Phillips shares his reverence for the intricacies of woodworking with his viewers.

Seasoned With Spirit, airing on Create Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning January 15, offers viewers a culinary celebration of America’s bounty and combines Native-American history and culture with delicious, healthy recipes inspired by indigenous foods. Much more than a cooking series, it’s a cultural adventure across the American landscape, where viewers meet Native American people, see their environs, learn their history and traditions and, best of all, sample their cuisine. The series includes recipes for simple comfort foods such as sassafras shrimp gumbo to more exotic dishes such as grilled buffalo tenderloin topped with chokecherry jus, wild spinach with cholla buds and chiltepine peppers, tapary beans with ribs and ash bread.

Moment of Luxury, a show conceived and hosted by award-winning international designer Bill Stubbs, makes the experience of “luxury” — excellence, comfort and exclusivity — accessible to Americans on any budget. Filmed in high definition from beautiful locations in the U.S. and around the world, Stubbs offers viewers tips on how to bring good, yet affordable, living into their homes and daily lives through home design, food, culture and art. The show airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays beginning January 27.

Your Brush With Nature, airing on Create Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning January 15, teaches viewers how to paint in the style of “Plein-Air” (open air in French). The instruction of host and artist Heiner Hertling teaches viewers how to create beautiful open-air portraits of nature with his detailed lessons.

More than 181 public television stations – representing 74% of U.S. TV households – offer Create TV nationwide. Create is produced and distributed by APT, Thirteen/WNET and WGBH Boston in association with NETA and PBS. Viewers can watch Create TV via digital broadcast and/or basic digital cable.

Research studies show that viewers praise Create TV’s quality of programs, depth of knowledge of the hosts, and variety of how-to topics. They also appreciate that its programs are shown as complete half hours – uninterrupted by mid-program commercials or breaks.

Visit www.CreateTV.com for more information, TV schedules, program descriptions, recipes, news, shopping, tips, DIY instructions and more.

Create™
Create™ is the dynamic TV channel that spotlights many of television's most popular how-to, cooking, arts and crafts and travel series. Create is produced and distributed by APT, Thirteen/WNET and WGBH Boston in association with National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) and PBS.

American Public Television
With more than 10,000 hours of programming in its library, American Public Television (APT) has been a prime source of programming for the nation’s public television stations for 48 years, distributing more than 300 new program titles per year. In 2006, APT launched Create – the TV channel featuring the best of public television's lifestyle programming. Known for its leadership in identifying innovative, worthwhile and viewer-friendly programming, APT has established a tradition of providing public television stations with program choices that strengthen and customize their schedules, such as Rick Steves' Europe, Worldfocus, Globe Trekker, Simply Ming, Sara's Weeknight Meals, America's Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated, Doc Martin, Lidia's Family Table, Rosemary and Thyme, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, The Big Comfy Couch, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Monarchy With David Starkey, Spain... on the road Again, and other prominent documentaries, dramatic series, how-to programs, children’s series and classic movies. For more information about APT’s programs and services, visit APTonline.org.

Thirteen/WNET New York
Thirteen/WNET New York is one of the key program providers for PBS, bringing such acclaimed series as Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Charlie Rose, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, Wide Angle, Secrets of the Dead and Cyberchase — as well as the work of Bill Moyers — to audiences nationwide. As the flagship public broadcaster in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut metro area, Thirteen reaches millions of viewers, airing the best of public television along with its own local productions. And, through its Web site and educational outreach projects, Thirteen extends the power of its work beyond the television screen. In 2003, Thirteen merged with sister station WLIW21 New York, America's fourth most-watched public television station. WLIW distributes live daily broadcasts of BBC World News and produces PBS programming celebrating the diversity and ethnic character in America. More information about Thirteen and WLIW can be found at www.thirteen.org and www.wliw.org.

WGBH Boston
WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, the source of one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup, along with some of public television's best-known lifestyle shows and children's programs and many public radio favorites. WGBH is the number one producer of Web sites on pbs.org, the most-visited dot-org on the Internet. WGBH is a pioneer in educational multimedia and in technologies and services that make media accessible to the 36 million Americans who rely on captioning or video descriptions. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys, Peabodys, duPont-Columbia Awards…even two Oscars. In 2002, WGBH was honored with a special institutional Peabody Award for 50 years of excellence. For more information, visit www.wgbh.org.

National Educational Telecommunications Association
The National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) is a professional association that serves public television licensees and educational entities in all 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. NETA serves by connecting people and ideas, by providing quality programming, educational resources, professional development, management support and national representation. For more information, visit www.NETAonline.org.

Public Broadcasting Service
PBS is a media enterprise that serves 355 public noncommercial television stations and reaches nearly 73 million people each week through on-air and online content. Bringing diverse viewpoints to television and the Internet, PBS provides high-quality documentary and dramatic entertainment, and consistently dominates the most prestigious award competitions. More information about PBS is available at www.pbs.org, one of the leading dot-org Web sites on the Internet.

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