Category Archives: Program Highlights

THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW

SEASON 4, EPISODE 1

CAKE

SATURDAY, JUNE 17 @ 7:00PM

Follow the trials and tribulations of passionate amateur bakers whose goal is to be named the U.K.’s best. Each week, the bakers tackle a different skill, the difficulty of which increases as the competition unfolds. Mary Berry, a leading cookbook writer, and Paul Hollywood, a top artisan baker, serve as judges. Together with hosts and comic foils Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, Berry and Hollywood search for the country’s best amateur baker by testing the competitors’ skills on cakes, breads, pastries and desserts, crowning a winner after 10 weeks of competition.


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THE TUNNEL

SABOTAGE

SEASON 2, EPISODE 1

THURSDAY, APRIL 5 @ 7:OOPM

Our investigative duo – pragmatic, meticulous and newly promoted Commander Elise Wasserman, and laconic but brilliant DCI Karl Roebuck – reunite to investigate the case of a French couple abducted from the Eurotunnel, leaving behind their traumatized small daughter, Chloe Fournier. But the case is complicated when a plane carrying British and French passengers crashes into the Channel killing everyone on board.


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THE BUDDA

TUESDAY, JUNE 13 @ 11:00PM

Two-thousand-five-hundred years ago in northern India, Prince Siddhartha left his palace where he had spent twenty-nine years indulging in pleasures. He was determined to comprehend the nature of human suffering. After a grueling spiritual quest that lasted six years, he at last attained enlightenment meditating under a fig tree. He became the Buddha, the “awakened one,” and devoted the rest of his life to teaching the way to enlightenment that he himself had found, giving birth to one of the world’s great religions. (2 Hours)


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THE MAKING OF A LADY

THE MAKING OF A LADY

SUNDAY, JUNE 11 @ 10:30PM

Based on the novel by celebrated writer Frances Hodgson Burnett (“The Secret Garden”), this is the story of the educated but penniless Emily (Lydia Wilson). During her duties as a lady’s companion for Lady Maria (Joanna Lumley), she meets her employer’s wealthy widower nephew, Lord James Walderhurst (Linus Roache). Accepting his practical if unromantic marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst’s nephew Alec Osborn (James D’Arcy) and his glamorous wife, Hester (Hasina Haque), after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life. (90 Minutes)


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WASHINGTON WEEK

FRIDAY, JUNE 9 @ 9:00PM

Former FBI director James Comey accused President Trump of telling “lies, plain and simple” during remarkable testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Comey detailed conversations he had with Mr. Trump and the circumstances surrounding his dismissal last month.

Comey’s testimony, in which he refused to characterize the pressure he felt from Trump as obstruction of justice, is already raising more questions in the ongoing probes into Russia‘s attempts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.


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THE AMERICAN EPIC SESSIONS

NATIONAL PBS FUNDRAISER

TUESDAY, JUNE 6 @ 9:00PM

Jack White and T Bone Burnett lead an epic recording session using the only working 1920s recording device in existence in this tribute to the artists celebrated in the American Epic documentary series. The recording device is timed by a weight-drive. (2hrs, 46 min)


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INDEPENDENT LENS

THE NEW BLACK

MONDAY, JUNE 5 @ 11:00PM

The New Black tells the story of how the African American community is debating the marriage equality movement and the fight over LGBT rights. The film documents activists, families, and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar — the black church — while exploring ways this phenomenon may have been exploited by political conservatives.


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WASHINGTON WEEK

FRIDAY, JUNE 2 @ 9:00PM

President Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, the historic 2015 agreement that commits nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and seek to renegotiate a new deal that’s “fair” for the American people. The United States, the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter, will join just two other nations – Nicaragua and Syria – to reject the climate change deal.


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2017 PEABODY AWARDS

THE 76TH ANNUAL PEABODY AWARDS

FRIDAY, JUNE 2 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

The Peabody Awards honor the most powerful, enlightening and invigorating stories in television, radio and digital media. One of the most prestigious events of the year, the annual Peabody Awards ceremony marks its 76th presentation in 2017. The evening program spotlights all 30 of the year’s winners along with achievement awards for Norman Lear and ITVS, the respective Individual and Institutional Award recipients. Rashida Jones, a cast member of Peabody Award-winning “Parks and Recreation,” serves as the evening’s host.


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