WHAT’S AT STAKE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 @ 7:00PM

WHAT’S AT STAKE, anchored by Hari Sreenivasan of PBS NEWSHOUR and combining field reports and interview segments, will explore how President Obama and Governor Romney plan to address the nation’s most pressing concerns: stimulating the economy, paying for Social Security and Medicare, providing affordable healthcare, reforming immigration and protecting America’s interests abroad.

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CAN I EAT THAT?

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24 @ 6:00PM

What are the secrets behind your favorite foods? Why are some treats, like chocolate-chip cookies, delectable, while others, like cookies made with mealworms, disgusting? You might think you understand what makes something sweet, salty, or bitter, but David Pogue gets a taste of a much more complicated truth, as he ventures into labs and kitchens where everything from apple pie to Thanksgiving turkey to juicy grasshoppers is diced, sliced, dissected, and put under the microscope. If scientists can uncover exactly what’s behind the mouth-watering flavors and textures we take for granted every day, could they help us enjoy our food more—without packing on the pounds?

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ELLEN DEGENERES

FRIDAY, JULY 18 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

Taped at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on October 22, the 90-minute special will feature a star-studded cast. The evening will pay tribute to Ellen DeGeneres, whose distinctive comic voice has resonated with audiences from her first stand-up comedy appearances through her work today on television, in film and in the literary world.

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BIG SKY, BIG MONEY

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 @ 7:00PM

In a special investigation in collaboration with Marketplace, FRONTLINE travels to the remote epicenter of the campaign finance debate for a tale of money, politics, and intrigue. How has the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision changed campaigns in America? Ask Montana, which has tried to challenge the ruling in court, is investigating alleged campaign abuses, and is playing host to a bitter race that could decide control of the U.S. Senate.FRONTLINE correspondent and Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal reports.

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LOVE FREE OR DIE

MONDAY, JUNE 3 @ 11:00PM

Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson is a man of God, driven and defined by his faith, who is also devoted to his husband Mark. His consecration, the first of an openly gay man in any Christian denomination, has deeply divided the church and put Robinson’s very life in danger.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 @ 9:00PM

EPISODE 5:  Nonnatus House responds to cancer – and to an ill-starred money-making venture.

Call the Midwife is a moving and intimate insight into the colorful world of midwifery and family life in 1950’s East London. We are introduced to the community through the eyes of young nurse Jenny Lee as she arrives at Nonnatus House to live and work as a midwife alongside an Order of Nuns.

VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED

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UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, SERIES 2

ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Episode 4

England needs good fighters, and when it comes to the Belgravia Servants’ Boxing Championship, 165 Eaton Place will be well represented by chauffeur Harry Spargo and young servant Johnny Proude. Yet Spargo seems intent only on winning the affection of maid Beryl Ballard, while Proude is looking for distraction from the specter of war.

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NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT

THURSDAY, OCTOBER @ 8:00PM

Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Lightis a remarkable meditation on memory, history and eternity. Chile’s remote Atacama Desert, 10,000 feet above sea level, provides stunningly clear views of the heavens. But it also holds secrets from the past in its arid soil: human remains, from pre-Columbian mummies to the bones of political prisoners “disappeared” during the Pinochet dictatorship.

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ICEMAN MURDER MYSTERY

SATURDAY, MARCH 10 @ 11:00PM

He’s been dead for more than 5,000 years and poked, prodded, and probed by scientists for the last 20. Yet Ötzi the Iceman, the famous mummified corpse pulled from a glacier in the Italian Alps, continues to keep many secrets. Now, through an autopsy like none other, scientists will attempt to unravel mysteries about this ancient mummy, revealing not only the details of Ötzi’s death but also an entire way of life.

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