INSPECTOR LEWIS, SEASON 7
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: Thirteen years after Lewis’ first successful arrest as a Detective Inspector, the forensics have been called into question and the case reopened for appeal. Lewis fears the worst, but nothing can prepare him for the resumption of the original murders with the original weapon. Did he arrest an innocent man? With Lewis’ reputation in jeopardy, Hathaway and Maddox race to catch the killer.
WITH MARIA HINOJOSA
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 @ 7:30PM
American suburbs are becoming more diverse, but the “exurbs” that surround them remain overwhelmingly white. In fact, while whites account for only 8% of total U.S. population growth, they make up 73% of growth in exurban areas.
We visit Coeur d’Alene, Idaho—a town that successfully ousted the Aryan Nations in 2000, but remains over 94% white. We explore both the allure and the complexity of living in a homogenous community.
WITH GWEN IFILL
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 @ 9:00AM
Congressional lawmakers grilled health officials from Texas and the federal government about the U.S. response to Ebola, possible travel bans, and whether current protocols need to be changed during a combative hearing on Capitol Hill today. Meanwhile, two nurses who wore protective gear while caring for Ebola patient Thomas Duncan before he died at a Dallas hospital have contracted the virus. One is now being treated at a specialized quarantine facility in Georgia.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 @ 6:00PM
In the 1920s, George Gershwin had an ambition to compose an American opera. In 1926, he read a powerful novel by an upper-class white South Carolinian, DuBose Heyward, called PORGY. Written the previous year, it was a series of vignettes of life in a black Charleston ghetto called Catfish Row, where a cripple named Porgy falls blindly in love with a woman named Bess, whose inconstant affections both torment and inflame him. Bess is torn between the rough men of Catfish Row, like Crown, who offers her a more glamorous life, and Porgy, who can only offer her his pure devotion. (3 Hours)
THE PARADISE, SEASON 2
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 @ 7:00PM
Help wanted! There’s a high-profile vacancy at the Paradise, and applicants stream in as Katherine, Tom and Moray work to advance their own candidates — and interests. The clashes aren’t confined only to the store floor as Katherine and Tom debate what is in the best interest of young Flora. And Denise confronts a troubling question – Moray may thinks of her as his “little champion,” but does he believe she is his equal?
WITH STEVEN JOHNSON
TIME
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 @ 11:00PM
Board a submarine with Steven Johnson to discover what a lack of natural light means for a sailor’s working day and visit Heathrow, the world’s busiest airport, to try to get timings right at air traffic control. The story of getting a grip on time is full of curious garage tinkerers. One of them, railway clerk William F. Allen, was so exasperated by the chaos caused by the hundreds of local times zones in the U.S. that he fought tirelessly to standardize time into four zones. Learn how advancements in navigation, the way we work, technology and travel would have been impossible without the unsung heroes of time.
WITH STEVEN JOHNSON
CLEAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world. Steven Johnson plunges into a sewer to understand what made a maverick engineer decide to lift the city of Chicago with jackscrews in order to build America’s first sewer system. He talks about John Leal, who deliberately “poisoned” the water supply of 200,000 people when, without authorization, he added chlorine, considered lethal in 1908, into Jersey City’s water and made it safe to drink.
THE TROUBLE WITH ANTIBIOTICS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 11:00PM
FRONTLINE investigates the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals and whether it is fueling the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance in people. Also this hour: An exclusive interview with the family of a young man who died in a nightmare bacteria outbreak that swept through a hospital at the National Institutes of Health.
WOMEN IN SPACE
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
Makers: Women in Space traces the history of women pioneers in the U.S. space program. Some, like aviators Wally Funk and Jerrie Cobb, passed the same grueling tests as male astronauts, only to be dismissed by NASA, the military, and even Lyndon Johnson, as a distraction. It wasn’t until 1995 that Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a spacecraft. The program includes interviews with Collins, as well as Sally Ride’s classmates Shannon Lucid, Rhea Seddon and Kathryn Sullivan, and features Mae Jemison, the first woman of color astronaut, and Peggy Whitson, the first female commander of the International Space Station.
DUMFRIES
SUNDAY, JUNE 20 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM
This four-part series takes an in-depth look at the workings of some of Scotland’s most magnificent country estates through the eyes of the current owners, the ghillies, the gardeners and the housekeepers, not forgetting the paying guests who frequent these stunning country estates. The programs, filmed entirely in Scotland, tell the fascinating stories behind these magnificent buildings.
About Dumfries
Tour the interior of the fabulous Dumfries House, an architectural gem that boasts one of the largest collections of Chippendale furniture in the world. This once-neglected mansion was dramatically brought back to life and saved for the nation by HRH The Prince of Wales.