GREAT PERFORMANCES

DRIVING MISS DAISY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM Uhry’s classic play is a timeless, searing, funny, and ultimately hopeful meditation on race relations in America, told through the complex relationship between two of popular culture’s most enduring characters. When Daisy Werthan, a widowed, 72-year-old Jewish woman living in midcentury Atlanta, is deemed too old to drive, her...

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!

INSPECTOR LEWIS, SEASON 7 SUNDAY, JULY 17 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM ENTRY WOUNDS Faced with a crime that bridges the worlds of neurosurgery, blood sports and animal rights, Hathaway works his first case as DI with the help of his new partner, DS Lizzie Maddox. Lewis, struggling to adapt to retired life, jumps at the chance to rejoin the force when Chief Superintendent Innocent seeks his help....

TO CATCH A COMET

TO CATCH A COMET FRIDAY, MARCH 11 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM Billions of kilometers from Earth, a spacecraft the size of a car traveled towards an icy rock 2.5 miles across hurtling through space at tens of kilometers per second. It had been in space for ten years, but on Nov. 12, 2014 it did something no other spacecraft had ever attempted — orbit and land on a comet. Rosetta, the European Space...

NOVA

CHASING PLUTO WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft, one of the most advanced ever built, is scheduled to fly by Pluto to take the very first detailed images of the dwarf planet. After nine years and 3 billion miles, we will finally get a close look at this strange, icy world, but only if the craft can survive the final, treacherous leg of its...

FRONTLINE

ESCAPING ISIS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29 @ 11:00PM Before ISIS overran his town in Northern Iraq, Khalil al-Dakhi was a lawyer. But now, he leads an underground railroad that rescues women and children who have been taken captive by ISIS. In Escaping ISIS, a hard-hitting new documentary delivers a stunning look at the plight of women and children who are Yazidis, a religious minority that have been...