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Lifetime Television presents:
Any Day Now
Airs Sundays at 9:pm - 10:pm est/pt and
Saturdays at midnight - 1:am est/pt
on Lifetime Television.
"We have cause to celebrate! Through the realistic portrayal of Rene and M.E., Lifetime demonstrates that friendship, like courage, can transcend race and color and transform community. 'Any Day Now' reflects the progress made in depicting the positive stories of black and white America. It challenges us to realize that our destinies are forever intertwined." - Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Chair and President Emerita - National Council of Negro Women.
"'Any Day Now' is an oasis in the desert of primetime programming. Every week we get to watch two very compelling and non-stereotypical women deal with provocative issues of race and gender in all their real-life complexity. I hope the show generates even greater discussion at home and in the classroom." - Prema Mathai-Davis, CEO, YWCA of the U.S.A.
"If black women and white women are going to assume authentic relationships, there needs to be a willingness to be there for each other. The example of a show like 'Any Day Now' helps us grow stronger in our vision of all people being able to live in the world together." - Byllye Avery, Founder - National Black Women's Health Project.
Any Day Now is a heartfelt original dramatic series which examines the relationship between two women who became childhood friends in
Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
Together these two very different women, Rene Jackson (Lorraine Toussaint), a single, successful African-American attorney, and Mary elizabeth (M.E.) Sims (Annie Potts), a white woman who has stayed at home to raise a family, struggle to rekindle the childhood friendship they lost because of the volatile times they grew up in, as well as the different lives they've chosen.
In each episode, Rene's and M.E.'s present-day live are interwoven with flashbacks from their childhood during the 1960's birth of the Civil Rights Movement in the South, dealing frankly and honestly about black and white issues. Presently, Any Day Now is the only program on primetime television that offers a weekly exploration of race relations.
"We've come a long way, but we still have so far to go," Creator and Executive Producer Nancy Miller points out. "This show can start a dialogue. The outcome doesn't have to be agreement. it only has to be understanding."
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KTSF-TV Airs The First Live, Chinese-Language Talk Show In The United States
Bay Area television station KTSF, Channel 26, launched the nation's first live Chinese-language talk show, China Crosstalk, on Monday night November 6, 2000. The show originates from the KTSF studios in Brisbane, CA. China Crosstalk airs live each weeknight from 11:00-11:30pm and is broadcast over-the-air on UHF channel 26. AT&T Broadband carries KTSF-TV on cable channel 8 throughout the Bay Area.
The host of China Crosstalk, Jay Stone Shih, is well-known in the Chinese community. For the past three years Shih has hosted his own Mandarin-language radio program which airs two hours each weekday in San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles. KTSF's broadcast of China Crosstalk marks the first time the Bay Area Chinese community has the ability to direct their questions to prominent newsmakers in a television format. Shih's guests represent a cross-section of interests including politics, entertainment, business and education.
KTSF Television is the only source of news and entertainment programming for 1,600,000 Northern California Asian-Americans. The station carries programming in fifteen languages including Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese, Tagolog, Vietnamese, Korean, Hindi, and Laotian. KTSF is the only television broadcaster in the United States airing nightly, live newscasts in both Cantonese and Mandarin.
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The Independent Television Service and the National Asian American Telecommunications Association present:
First Person Plural
Airs December 18th at 10 p.m.
(check local listings)
on PBS Television.
Directed by Korean-American filmmaker, Deann Borshay Liem, this intensely personal and moving documentary chronicles Borshay's efforts to reconcile her life as the adopted daughter of a loving Caucasian-American family with her previously unknown Korean past.
On March 3, 1966, a frightened little girl arrived in San Francisco from After two years of sponsoring a child by sending $15 a month to the Foster Parent's Plan, the couple had decided to adopt the girl they knew as Cha Jung Hee.
In time, the girl, renamed Deann Borshay, adapted to her new life. Although she was living the all-American life - being a cheerleader, going to the prom - as she grew older, long-forgotten memories of her life in Korea began to resurface; memories that didn't jell with the facts of her adoption. "I remember going up to my mothers" says Borshay, "and telling her, 'I'm not who you think I am. I'm not Cha Jung Hee. And I think I have a mother and brothers and sisters in Korea still."
Eventually, these feelings manifested themselves in the form of depression and Borshay Liem know she had to look into her past.
Deann traveled twice to Korea to meet her family and the experience was breathtaking, both culturally and emotionally. "For so many years I had looked into blue eyes, bland hair, and all of a sudden, there were these people in the room who, when I looked at them, I could see parts of myself in them." Deann decided that the best way for her to reconcile her two families was to see them in the same room. "I thought that if I could actually see them come together in real life," she explains, "that somehow both families could then live within myself."
It was difficult for her to discuss what she was going through with the Borshays, "For a long time I couldn't talk to my American parents about my Korean family, because I felt like somehow AI was being disloyal to them." It was especially hard for her to talk to Alveen about it. "I didn't know how to talk to my mother about my mother," say Borshay Liem simply, "because she was my mother."
First Person Plural celebrated its world premiere at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and received the Grand Jury Prize for Best Bay Area Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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