MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!

GRANTCHESTER SUNDAY, MARCH 13 EPISODE 1 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM Set in the English countryside’s most idyllic village, Grantchester follows two unlikely allies as they solve a series of cases that reveal the dark side of early 1950s England.  It looks like suicide, but Reverend Sidney Chambers suspects murder. His biggest challenge is to enlist police in the hunt for the killer. EPISODE 2 @...

GREAT PERFORMANCES

AT THE MET LE NOZZE DI FIGARO FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM Mozart’s elegant masterpiece of marital discord, Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine and staged by Richard Eyre, is the season nine premiere of Great Performances at the Met on Friday, January 16 at 9 pm on PBS. Eyre’s staging of the opera, in which the romantic bonds of two couples are...

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 @ 9:00PM This Week on Washington Week: Lessons from Paris; State of the Union Preview; GOP’s 2016 Contenders; U.S.-Cuba Relations Just one week after the terror attacks in Paris, another terror plot has been foiled in Belgium. On Thursday counter-terrorism officials prevented jihadists from attacking a police station in the town of Verviers. Historically,...

THE QUEEN’S GARDEN

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM With permission from Her Majesty the Queen, this documentary reveals a year in Buckingham Palace Gardens, exploring the history and the natural history of this remarkable hidden royal treasure in the center of London. This film uncovers a wonderland with a five century history, an urban oasis of wildlife where the Queen has lived with her family and a...

NOVA

BIG BANG MACHINE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14 @ 10:00PM On July 4, 2012, scientists at the giant atom smashing facility at CERN announced the discovery of a subatomic particle that seems like a tantalizingly close match to the elusive Higgs Boson, thought to be responsible for giving all the stuff in the universe its mass. Since it was first proposed nearly fifty years ago, the Higgs has been the holy...