THE HAVERSACK

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 @ 8:00PM

EPISODE 2

Confederate belle Emma nurses her wounded friend. Dr. Foster wrestles with his marriage and career as Mary tries to improve her patients’ lives with Samuel’s help. Aurelia submits to Silas’ advances in exchange for his help.

Based on real events, Mercy Street takes viewers beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation’s history.

Set in Virginia in the spring of 1862, Mercy Street follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposite sides of the conflict: Nurse Mary Phinney (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green (Hannah James), a naive young Confederate belle.

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SEASON 6 ON MASTERPIECE

SUNDAY, JANUARY 24 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

EPISODE 4

Daisy continues to press her case, and Baxter has a new case to consider. Anna and Mary make an urgent trip to London, and two visitors from the past—one distant, one recent—arrive at Downton. Car talk is in the air. See the much-anticipated final season of the Emmy® and Golden Globe® award-winning drama.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 @ 9:00PM

Tonight on Washington Week: Political Storm Brewing with One Week to Iowa, Supreme Court to Rule on Obama’s Immigration Plan and Iran Releases U.S. Prisoners

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AT THE MET

IL TROVATORE

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23 @ 6:00PM

Soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the Gypsy troubadour. Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Count di Luna, Yonghoon Lee is Manrico in his Met role debut as the title character, Dolora Zajick sings her signature role of the gypsy Azucena, and Štefan Kocán is Ferrando. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production.

When the production debuted earlier this season, The New York Times observed, “Ms. Netrebko sounded wonderful, singing with plush, penetrating sound and affecting character.”

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MYSTERY BENEATH THE ICE

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM

Tiny, transparent, and threatened, krill are crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem. But the population of krill is crashing for reasons that continue to baffle the experts. A leading theory says that krill’s life cycle is driven by an internal body clock that responds to the waxing and waning of the Antarctic ice pack, and as climate change alters the timing of the ice pack, their life cycle is disrupted. To test it, NOVA travels on the Polarstern, a state-of-the-art research vessel, to the frigid ice pack in the dead of winter. From camps established on the ice, scientists dive beneath the surface in search of the ice caves that shelter juvenile krill during the winter.

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NATURAL BORN HUSTLERS

THE HUNGER HUSTLE

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM

The duplicitous ways in which animals try to secure their next meal is the subject of the second episode, The Hunger Hustle. Singled out is the devious drongo, a South African bird. In winter, he has to rely on grubs and insects that live underground, but other animals are far better equipped to dig them up, so the drongo devises a con. He serves as lookout while vulnerable social weaver birds are on the ground digging up food. If a predator is spotted, he sends out an alarm call and the weavers head for safety until they get an all clear call from him. But the drongo also issues fake alarm calls, allowing him to eat food the weavers have dug up before issuing an all clear to return.

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IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19 @ 9:00PM

Learn how the ancestors of Maya Rudolph, Shonda Rhimes and Keenen Ivory Wayans struggled for freedom, and how each of these cultural trailblazers gain a new understanding of how they fit into this proud trajectory.

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BONNIE & CLYDE

TUESDAY, MAY 9 @ 10:00PM

Though their exploits were romanticized, the Barrow gang was believed responsible for at least 13 murders, including nine law enforcement officers, as well as numerous robberies and kidnappings. Discover the true story of the most famous outlaw couple in U.S. history — Bonnie and Clyde.

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