MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP: L’ALLEGRO

SATURDAY, MARCH 28 @ 6:00PM

Mark Morris’s signature work L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato comes to television for the first time, hosted by Mikhail Baryshnikov. The performance was filmed July 2014 at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain.

Merriment and Milton are hardly synonymous, but the poet who penned Paradise Lost also inspired George Frideric Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, which concludes “Mirth, with thee we mean to live.” Choreographer Mark Morris garnered international fame for this piece, considered a landmark achievement, and set to Handel’s Baroque masterpiece, in which a colorful array of dancers embody the ecstasy of art that transforms.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 26 @ 9:00PM

This Old House, with pros Norm Abram, Tom Silva, Richard Trethewey, Roger Cook, and host Kevin O’Connor, is TV’s original home-improvement show, following one whole-house renovation over several episodes.

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THE BIBLE’S BURIED SECRETS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

In this landmark two-hour special, NOVA takes viewers on a scientific journey that began 3,000 years ago and continues today. The film presents the latest archeological scholarship from the Holy Land to explore the beginnings of modern religion and the origins of the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Old Testament. This archeological detective story tackles some of the biggest questions in biblical studies: Where did the ancient Israelites come from? Who wrote the Bible, when, and why? How did the worship of one God—the foundation of modern Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—emerge?

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THE MAN WHO MADE WASHINGTON WORK

TUESDAY, MARCH 24 @ 8:30PM & 11:30PM

This 90-minute documentary, narrated by Tom Brokaw, tells the story of James A. Baker III, a remarkable politician and statesman who represents a time when a divided Congress got things done, and when presidents and politicians worked together. Baker, now 84, helped get three presidents elected, served in top posts for two of them, and was a central player in some of the most momentous events of the late 20th century.

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LITTLE WHITE LIE

MONDAY, JANUARY 18 @ 8:00PM

Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper middle class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her identity, despite occasional remarks from those around her who wondered how a white girl could have such dark skin. As a child she believed her family’s explanation — that her appearance was inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian grandfather — but when she reaches her adolescence, and her parents abruptly separate, her gut begins to tell her something else.

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ATTENBOROUGH’S LIFE STORIES

OUR FRAGILE PLANET

SUNDAY, MARCH 22 @ 10:00PM

Episode three: Attenborough’s Life Stories: Our Fragile Planet

Attenborough reflects on the dramatic impact that we have had on the natural world during his lifetime.

Attenborough shares his memories of the scientists and the breakthroughs that helped shape his own career in translating these discoveries into film.

“I’ve been lucky enough to live through what well might be considered the golden age of natural history filmmaking.” – Sir David Attenborough

Now a world-famous veteran of wildlife presentation on television, Sir David Attenborough was eight years old in 1934 when he saw his first natural history film.

Years later, those dreams became an illustrious reality. For over half a century, Attenborough has been at the forefront of natural history filmmaking, witnessing an unparalleled period of change in our planet’s history. His first-hand accounts offer a unique perspective on the natural world. To mark his 60th anniversary on television, Nature presents Attenborough’s Life Stories, a three-part retrospective of his life and work

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, MARCH 20 @ 9:00PM

This Week: Netanyahu’s Re-Election, Nuclear Talks with Iran, GOP’s Budget Battles and Big Money in 2016.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s surprisingly decisive re-election victory has put an added strain on U.S. relations with Israel. The Prime Minister’s campaign rhetoric ruling out a Palestinian state and his opposition to President Obama’s efforts to reach a nuclear deal with Iran has the White House considering new options to pursue Middle East peace and if a two-state solution is really possible.

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