Weekly AETN PBS KIDS Family Night family movie specials to air each Friday
CONWAY — The Arkansas Educational Television Network has premiered AETN PBS KIDS Family Night Friday.
The weekly television event features family movie specials or themed programming from 6 to 8 p.m. every Friday on AETN PBS KIDS channel.
Family Night will kick off with popular movie favorites such as “Odd Squad: The Movie,” “Splash and Bubbles: One Big Ocean” and “Sesame Street: The Cookie Thief,” and will include world premiere movie events such as “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Tiger Family Trip,” “Wild Kratts Alaska: Hero’s Journey,” “Ready Jet Go!: Return To Bortron 7” and “Arthur and the Haunted Treehouse.”
Programs will repeat from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday evenings. The schedule includes:
• “The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Space!,” May 19-21. The Cat in the Hat takes viewers on a cosmic adventure through the solar system to assist with Operation Rover Repair in this one-hour movie event.
• “Sesame Street: The Cookie Thief,” May 26-28. This nail-biting, cookie-munching thriller celebrates the arts and delights Cookie Monster fans of all ages. A cookie art museum has just opened on Sesame Street. Surrounded by beautiful cookie paintings, such as “Girl with the Cookie Earring” and the “Muncha Lisa,” Cookie Monster and his friends feel as though they’re in a whole new world. But, when art suddenly starts to disappear, Cookie Monster quickly becomes a suspect. Can he clear his name? Will they find the missing art in time, or will Cookie Monster be banished from the museum forever?
AETN broadcasts PBS KIDS 24 hours a day on AETN-3. All of AETN’s channels are available free over the air using an antenna. Cable companies are only required to carry the primary channel, AETN.
However, many cable companies are choosing to carry AETN’s additional channels. At this time, satellite providers only carry AETN. A complete list of cable companies and channels carried is available at aetn.org/channelinformation.