A SALUTE TO FIRST RESPONDERS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 @ 8:00P,M & 12:00AM
Celebrity Chef Lidia Bastianich travels across the country visiting the men and women serving on the front lines, from firefighters in California battling wildfires, to medical workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic in New York. Lidia meets first responders who’ve worked quietly in the shadows, and now find themselves thrust into the spotlight by crises facing the country in 2020.
SWING: THE VELOCITY OF CELEBRATION (1937-1939)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 @ 10:00PM
As the Great Depression deepens, jazz thrives. The saxophone emerges as an iconic instrument of the music and women musicians emerge on the jazz scene. Benny Goodman holds the first-ever jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns tells the story of jazz – the quintessential American art form. The 10-part series follows the growth and development of jazz music from its beginnings to the present.
BEYOND THE ELEMENTS
INDESTRUCTIBLE
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 @ 10:00PM
Glass so strong you can jump on it, rubber so tough it protects a clay pot dropped from 50 feet, endless varieties of plastic. Scientists and engineers have created virtually indestructible versions of common materials by manipulating the chains of interlocking atoms that give them strength—but have they made them too tough? Host David Pogue explores the fantastic chemistry behind the everyday.
BIG BEND
THE WILD FRONTIER OF TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Roam the Wild West frontier land of the Rio Grande’s Big Bend alongside its iconic animals, including black bears, rattlesnakes and scorpions.
IRAQ’S ASSASSINS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 @ 11:00PM
How Iranian-backed Shia militias are terrorizing Iraq. FRONTLINE investigates allegations that militias are threatening and killing critics with impunity and targeting US interests.
WOMEN IN BLUE
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8 @ 11:00PM
With the national conversation around police reform still resonating, Women in Blue shines a spotlight on women within the Minneapolis Police Department to reform it from the inside by fighting for gender equity. Filmed from 2017 to 2020, Women in Blue focuses on MPD’s first female police chief and three women in her department as they each try to redefine what it means to protect and serve.
ON MASTERPIECE
MEMENTO MORI
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 @ 9:00PM
The Duke hires Eliza to spy on suffragettes. Going beyond her instructions, she gets involved in Britain’s biggest plot since Guy Fawkes.
ON MASTERPIECE
EPISODE 5, ALL’S FAIR
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30 @ 7:00PM
James volunteers to be the official vet at the Darrowby Show. His ordeals include an ethical plight involving Helen’s bull.
AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL
FIREWORKS!
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14 @ 11:00PM
Relive the iconic moments of the Hollywood Bowl summer series with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. “In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl,” produced in partnership with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, features the “best of” live performances from the past ten years hosted by LA Phil Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel.
AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL
GUSTAVO AND FRIENDS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Watch some of host Gustavo Dudamel’s favorite performances from throughout the years: selections from “Swan Lake” with American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland, Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with Pablo Ferrández, and the finale to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.