TV program notes -- week of Jan. 6

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Here are some television program notes for the week of Jan. 6 with their TV Parental Guidelines ratings if available. They have not been reviewed and therefore are not necessarily recommended by the Office for Film & Broadcasting.

Sunday, Jan. 6, 4-5:30 a.m. (EWTN) "Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord Live." Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to celebrate a Mass on the Epiphany live from St. Peter's Basilica.

Sunday, Jan. 6, 8-9 p.m. EST (PBS) "The Desert Lions." The world's most extraordinary population of lions lives in the Namib Desert on Africa's wild and forbidding Skeleton Coast. Philip Stander, a Namibian carnivore specialist, first spotted these desert lions in the mid-1980s, watching in disbelief as a lioness killed a fur seal in the waves and dragged it five miles inland to feed her cubs. Before he had a chance to study them further, they disappeared; Stander became obsessed with their fate and their story. Twenty years later, the lions reappeared, giving him a second chance to unravel their secrets. A presentation of "Nature" (TV-PG -- parental guidance suggested).

Monday, Jan. 7, 9-11 p.m. EST (PBS) "Carnegie Hall Celebrates Berlin." "Great Performances" returns to New York City's Carnegie Hall for a celebration with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Featuring the orchestra under the baton of music director and conductor Sir Simon Rattle, the program will include highlights from the hall's two-week "Berlin in Lights" festival in November (TV-G -- general audience).

Tuesday, January 8, 10-11 p.m. EST (PBS) "Today's Man." Filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb searches to understand her brother's strange and extraordinary life after he is diagnosed at age 21 with Asperger's syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism. An "Independent Lens" film (TV-PG -- parental guidance suggested).

Wednesday, Jan. 9, 9-11 p.m. EST (PBS) "The Jewish Americans." The first part of a six-hour documentary follows 350 years of Jewish-American history, from the first settlement in the 17th century to the present, and explores the experience of immigration and assimilation. Liev Schreiber narrates (TV-PG -- parental guidance suggested).

Saturday, Jan. 12, 8-9:10 p.m. EST (EWTN) "Seelos -- Tireless Intercessor." Documentary looks at the life of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, a19th-century Redemptorist priest and a man of profound sensitivity and kindness who was a gifted confessor and spiritual director.

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