Create TV’s themed marathons showcase many of America’s most popular and highly rated how-to, cooking, travel, gardening and arts & crafts series

BOSTON Feb. 28, 2008 – Superstar chefs and more of America’s favorite public television personalities will be featured in Saturday themed marathons this April on Create TV – available on digital cable and digital broadcast across the country (check local listings). The channel, a unique destination for many of television’s highest-rated lifestyle series, showcases six-hour marathons of episodes focusing on different themes each week.

This April, Create TV’s marathons feature entertaining food, travel, craft and gardening themes including: “Southern Hospitality” (April 5); “Superstar Chef II (another full day of the chef biography series Chef’s Story)” (April 12); “A Passion for Fashion” (April 19); and “Flower Power” (April 26).

Southern Hospitality – April 5
Create TV crosses the Mason Dixon line in the company of talented chefs John Shields and Chris Kimball, equestrian traveler Darley Newman and historian Burt Wolf. This group of talented hosts will show viewers exactly what Southern Hospitality is! Destinations include Georgia, Virginia, the Carolinas and Louisiana.

Superstar Chef II – April 12 Twelve more superstar chefs discuss their passion for food with another full day of the biography series Chef’s Story. See revealing interviews from top culinary professionals, including Todd English and Charlie Trotter.

A Passion for Fashion – April 19
This arts and crafts marathon focuses on our team of expert seamstresses, Sue Hausmann, Shay Pendray and Martha Pullen, guiding viewers through every stitch until they have a gorgeous garment! Topics include double-stitching, quilting, embellishments and more.

Flower Power – April 26
Learn some great tips for your indoor and outdoor spaces with Create’s gardening and home experts. Create TV features a full day of garden-focused programming, including the popular garden and home series P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home, Katie Brown Workshop, and For Your Home, starring mother and daughter team Vicki Payne and Sloan Payne-Rutter.

Create TV, produced and distributed by American Public Television (APT), Thirteen/WNET and WGBH Boston in association with NETA and PBS, is carried nationwide by 186 public television stations – representing 71% of USTVHH – via digital broadcast 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 and more.

About 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.

About the Entities That Make Create TV Possible:
American Public Television
For 47 years, American Public Television (APT) has been a prime source of programming for the nation’s public television stations. APT distributes more than 300 new program titles per year and has 10,000 hours of programming in its library. It is responsible for many public television milestones including the first HD series and the 2006 launch of the Create channel featuring the best of public television’s lifestyle programming. APT is known for its leadership in identifying innovative, worthwhile and viewer-friendly programming. It has established a tradition of providing public television stations with program choices that strengthen and customize their schedules such as Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert, Battlefield Britain, Globe Trekker, Rick Steves’ Europe, Great Museums, Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way, America's Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated, Broadway: The Golden Age, Lidia's Family Table, California Dreamin’ – The Songs of The Mamas & the Papas, Rosemary and Thyme, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, The Big Comfy Couch, Monarchy With David Starkey, and other prominent documentaries, dramatic series, how-to programs and classic movies. For more information about APT’s programs and services, visit APTonline.org.

THIRTEEN/WNET
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
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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