TERROR IN EUROPE

TUESDAY, JULY 11 @ 8:00PM

Inside Europe’s fight against the rise of Islamist terrorism. As Europe reels from a terror onslaught, top counter-terror officials describe their struggle to contain the unprecedented threat revealed by attacks in France and Belgium.

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27 @ 10:00PM

Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Although eclipsed in fame by Edison and Marconi, it was Tesla’s vision that paved the way for today’s wireless world.

Regarded by many as an eccentric genius, Nikola Tesla’s system of alternating current is the basis of the electrical grid that makes daily life possible in the 21st century. One hundred years ago, he paved the way toward robots, radio, radar, remote control, and the wireless transmission of messages and pictures. He dreamed of harnessing the wind and the sun to make free energy available for all.

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HOOLIGAN SPARROW

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 @ 11:00PM

Speaking truth to power is dangerous in some places, including modern-day China, where corrupt government officials deal very harshly with critics.

Chinese officials prove especially displeased when their critics include an activist lawyer, outraged parents, a fearless filmmaker and a sex workers’ rights activist with a wicked sense of humor. Hooligan Sparrow, Nanfu Wang’s feature debut, centers on a horrible crime that took place in 2013: A school principal and a member of the education bureaucracy abducted six female students 11 to 14 years of age, took them to a hotel and sexually assaulted them over a 24-hour period. When parents and their supporters demanded justice, the perpetrators insisted the girls were prostitutes. Then the powers-that-be and their hired thugs really started playing hardball.

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SEASON 2 ON MASTERPIECE

EPISODE 3

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 @ 10:00PM

Smugglers make Ross an offer. Ross makes Francis an offer. Verity reappears. Ross and George engage in a frank discussion. Demelza risks her neck before a blessed event.

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ON MASTERPIECE

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM

Louisa Durrell and her four headstrong children, ages 11 to 21, arrive penniless on the bucolic Greek island of Corfu in 1935. They soon fall in with the locals and a menagerie of animals.

Keeley Hawes (Upstairs Downstairs) stars as an intrepid widow who decamps from dreary England to a sun-dappled Greek island with her four recalcitrant children, ages 11 to 21, on this six-part adaptation of Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals and its two sequels. The Durrells in Corfu airs Sundays, October 16th – November 20th, 2016.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 9:00PM

This Week on Washington Week: Trump denies allegations of sexual assault and dismisses concerned Republicans while new WikiLeaks release reinforces Clinton campaign secrecy

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GRAMMY SALUTE TO MUSIC LEGENDS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Ruth Brown, Celia Cruz, Earth, Wind & Fire, Herbie Hancock, Jefferson Airplane, Linda Ronstadt, and Run-DMC. John Cage, Fred Foster, and Chris Strachwitz are Trustees Award honorees; and EMT and Dr. Harvey Fletcher are Technical GRAMMY^® Award recipients. Also being honored is Phillip Riggs, this year’s recipient of the Music Educator Award™.

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