WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, JULY 31 @ 9:00PM Who could have predicted that billionaire real estate magnate and TV celebrity Donald Trump would be surging in the polls just two months after jumping into the 2016 presidential race? Trump’s brash style and penchant for controversy have made him the Republican frontrunner. It’s also helped him overshadow other would-be GOP stars like Wisconsin...

VIRTUOSITY

THE CLIBURN SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 @ 6:00PM Virtuosity – The Cliburn searches for the musical souls of the most gifted young pianists on the planet as they try to make a name for themselves at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The pressure is overwhelming because the stakes are so high: prize money, concert bookings, a recording contract, a career. At the heart of this story...

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!

INSPECTOR LEWIS, SEASON 7 BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL SUNDAY, JULY 31 @ 7:00PM & 11:30AM BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: Thirteen years after Lewis’ first successful arrest as a Detective Inspector, the forensics have been called into question and the case reopened for appeal. Lewis fears the worst, but nothing can prepare him for the resumption of the original murders with the original weapon. Did he...

NOVA

NUCLEAR MELTDOWN DISASTER WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 @ 10:00PM NOVA reveals the minute-by-minute story of the Fukushima nuclear crisis—the one you know about, and the one you likely don’t: the perilously close call at the other Fukushima nuclear power plant a few miles away from the meltdowns. With unprecedented access inside both Fukushima nuclear power plants, NOVA speaks with workers who were...

URANIUM

TWISTING THE DRAGON’S TAIL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 @ 11:00PM Uranium is created violently in the collapse of a star long ago. A massive explosion; a supernova that is the birth our solar system. Uranium is woven throughout the fabric of our Earth, and uranium still crackles, with the heat and violence of that creation. Uranium spits energy unlike any other rock. Its energy transforms DNA,...