ON MASTERPIECE
SEASON 3 EPISODE 3
SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 @ 9:00PM
A failed harvest incites food riots, which George handles harshly. Demelza and Ross get a family addition. Morwenna gets an unwelcome suitor. A clever plan to import grain foils George.
Category Archives: Program Highlights
THE DURRELLS IN CORFU
SEASON 2, EPISODE 1
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
After Louisa meets a handsome fellow Brit named Hugh, her landlady suddenly turns hostile. Louisa’s effort to get Greeks to pay for English cooking falls flat. Gerry and Theo trap an otter.
GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW
THE FINAL
SEASON 2, EPISODE 10
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 6:00PM
Learn which of the three finalists will emerge as Britain?s best amateur baker. Each must create a technically difficult picnic pie, 12 perfectly shaped pretzels and the ultimate showpiece in a baker’s repertoire: a three-tiered wedding cake.
WASHINGTON WEEK
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 @ 9:00PM
President Trump is expected to decertify the Iran nuclear deal on Friday despite assessments from several cabinet officials that Iran is complying with the 2015 agreement. The decision would send the deal to Congress which could re-impose economic sanctions and effectively kill the deal that limits the development of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Mr. Trump’s attempt to get out of the “worst deal” would have a far-reaching impact on how the United States is viewed on the world stage and comes the same week the president publicly challenged his own secretary of state.
GREAT PERFORMANCES
GRAMMY SALUTE TO MUSIC LEGENDS 2017
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
In collaboration with the Recording Academy™, GREAT PERFORMANCES presents GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends 2017™, the second annual all-star concert offering a primetime spotlight for the Academy’s 2017 Special Merit Awards recipients. The celebration and tribute concert feature rare performances by honorees and renditions by those they’ve inspired.
This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Shirley Caesar, Ahmad Jamal, Charley Pride, Jimmie Rodgers, Nina Simone, Sly Stone, and the Velvet Underground.
POLDARK
ON MASTERPIECE
SEASON 4, EPISODE 2
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 @ 7:00PM
Ross goes to revolutionary France to search for information about Dwight. George dispenses rough justice in his new role as magistrate. Drake falls in love with the governess Morwenna.
NATURE
FOX TALES
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 @ 9:00PM
Most people assume they need to head to more remote areas, like state and national parks, to see a Red fox, but according to several experts, many individuals need to look no further than their own neighborhoods. These adaptable and intelligent canids can make their home along the cliffs of Newfoundland and the Arctic tundra. Over the last century, they have also been slowly populating urban centers. According to Wildlife Specialist Dr. David Drake of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “There’s not a lot of urban Red fox research going on in North America…But I would be very, very surprised if there are not Red fox in most, if not, all North American cities.”
NOVA
GHOSTS OF STONEHENGE
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6 @ 10:00PM
Stonehenge is the grandest and most enigmatic of Europe’s prehistoric monuments, and it has inspired countless theories to explain who built it and why. Was it an ancient cathedral or burial place or even a Stone Age observatory or computer?
FINDING YOUR ROOTS
UNFAMILIAR KIN
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 @ 11:00PM
Actors Fred Armisen and Christopher Walken and musician Carly Simon each learn about a grandparent whose real identity and background had been a mystery to them ? redefining how they see themselves.
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POV
THE ISLANDS AND THE WHALES
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 @ 8:00PM
Scottish filmmaker Mike Day turns his lens on the isolated North Atlantic archipelago of the Faroe Islands with The Islands and the Whales, which won the DOC NYC Grand Jury Prize and the Hot Docs Emerging International Filmmaker Award in 2016. The longtime hunting practices of the Faroese are threatened by dangerously high mercury levels in whales, decimated seabird populations and anti-whaling activists. Day explores the undeniably timely tensions between the environment, health, tradition and culture.