CANCER

THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES MAGIC BULLETS MONDAY, MARCH 30 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Siddhartha Mukherjee, tells the complete story of cancer, from its first description in an ancient Egyptian scroll to the gleaming laboratories of modern research institutions. At six hours, the film interweaves a sweeping historical...

MASTERPIECE CLASSIC

MR. SELFRIDGE, SEASON 3 EPISODE 1 SUNDAY, MARCH 29 @ 10:05PM Mr. Selfridge returns for a third season of shelves, sales, and shopping sprees! Based on the historical exploits of the founder of London’s legendary department store, Selfridge & Co., the series follows Harry through tumultuous times and changing fashions. Three-time Emmy® winner Jeremy Piven (Entourage) is back as the...

CALL THE MIDWIFE

EPISODE 1 SUNDAY, MARCH 29 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM Inspired by the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife follows the nurses, midwives and nuns from Nonnatus House, who visit the expectant mothers of Poplar, providing the poorest women with the best possible care. In Season 4, the community prepares to enter a new decade — the 1960s. In the Season 4 Premiere, Nurse Barbara Gilbert arrives...

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, MARCH 27 @ 9:00PM This Week: Desertion Charges for Bowe Bergdahl, U.S. Troops to Remain in Afghanistan, Bipartisan Effort to Fix Medicare & Ted Cruz Jumps Into 2016 Race FIND OUT MORE...

GREAT PERFORMANCES

MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP: L’ALLEGRO SATURDAY, MARCH 28 @ 6:00PM Mark Morris’s signature work L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato comes to television for the first time, hosted by Mikhail Baryshnikov. The performance was filmed July 2014 at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain. Merriment and Milton are hardly synonymous, but the poet who penned Paradise Lost also inspired George Frideric...