FINDING YOUR ROOTS

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT SATURDAY, MARCH 1 @ 10:30PM Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Debra Messing & Melanie Lynskey to ancestors who made bold decisions that forever reshaped their family trees. Moving from shtetls in Eastern Europe to a fruit stand in NY City to the wilds of New Zealand, Gates introduces his guests to relatives who took great risks, overcame enormous hardships—and...

NOVA

POMPEII’S SECRET UNDERWORLD SA POMPEII’S SECRET UNDERWORLD SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 @ 10:00PM For over two centuries, archaeologists have hailed Pompeii as a sophisticated city at the heart of an advanced ancient civilization. But a series of new excavations is painting a much more complex picture of the city tragically buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79. New...

AMERICAN ANTHEMS

WHAT YOU’RE HERE FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 @ 11:30PM Singer Ruston Kelly meets Melissa Smith, who runs a performing arts program supporting intellectually disabled adults. Bonding over their pasts, Ruston writes a ballad celebrating Melissa’s work and the good we can do when we realize our purpose. FIND OUT MORE...

AMERICAN MASTERS

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MISS SCOTT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, she faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her career and was a champion for equality. The film features interviews with Mickey Guyton, Tracie Thoms, Amanda Seales,...

FUNNY WOMAN

EPISODE 3 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 @ 11:00PM A girls’ trip to the pub proves both cathartic and fruitful, inspiring Sophie’s brilliant new sitcom idea while repairing her fractured friendship with Marj. Later, Bill’s arrest provides further opportunity for growth. FIND OUT MORE...