WITH MARIA HINOJOSA

THE NEW MAD MEN

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 @ 7:30PM

With a collective purchasing power of $3 trillion, people of color are quickly becoming the nation’s most sought-after consumers. Iconic brands are re-examining their marketing strategies in order to stay competitive in the changing marketplace. Latinos, with a buying power of $1.2 trillion, are at the heart of this new consumer focus.

We take an exclusive look inside LatinWorks, one of the most successful multicultural ad agencies in the country, and learn how they are speaking to the multicultural millennial market.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 @ 9:00PM

President Obama’s executive action to overhaul of the nation’s immigration enforcement system will allow as many as five million undocumented immigrants to stay in the country without threat of deportation. The plan will also expand the current “Dreamers” program that protects immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children, but the new policy will not shield the parents of those Dreamers.

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CATS

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 @ 6:00PM

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, the second longest-running Broadway musical (only surpassed by Lloyd Webber’s own “The Phantom of the Opera”), and fourth longest-running West End musical, returns in high definition and digital sound to Great Performances where it had its 1998 world television premiere. The special encore presentation will air Friday, November 21 at 7:00pm on MCPTV 26.1.

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KILLER LANDSLIDES

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 @ 10:00PM

Just before 11 a.m. on March 22, 2014, an ominous rumble startled the residents of the community of Oso, Washington, about an hour’s drive from Seattle. It was the terrifying sound of what would become the United States’ deadliest landslide in decades. The equivalent of one million dump truck loads of earth came plummeting down the valley.

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INVASION OF THE KILLER WHALES

SUNDAYDAY, DECEMBER 3 @ 9:00PM

A shift of power is taking place at the top of the world. The Arctic is undergoing a dramatic change, and with this change one iconic Arctic hunter may soon have to give way to another as solid ice turns to open sea. The polar bear, once king of the North, needs ice to stalk its prey. Killer whales, or orca, on the other hand, are unable to hunt in an ocean locked in ice. As the ice increasingly disappears, the tables have turned. Polar bears are struggling to survive while the now open ocean provides bountiful new hunting grounds for the whales.

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 @ 10:00PM

In the fall of 1959, at the height of the Cold War, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the United States for 12 days at the invitation of President Dwight Eisenhower. For both men, the visit was an opportunity to halt the escalating threats of the Cold War and potentially chart a new course toward peaceful coexistence. For the American press, it was the media blockbuster story of the year.

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ANCIENT ROOTS

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM

Tina Fey, George Stephanopoulos and David Sedaris, three quintessential voices in American life, descend from ancestors that were part of the wave of Greek immigrants that flooded America’s shores in the early decades of the 20th century.

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