DELICIOUS SCIENCE
FOOD ON THE BRAIN
SATURDAY, MARCH 7 @ 8:00PM
Food – Delicious Science is the scientific story of the food on your plate. Michael Mosley and James Wong present a celebration of the physics, chemistry and biology that lies hidden inside every bite. Together they travel the world and take over the UK’s leading food lab as they deconstruct our favorite meals, taking us inside the food, right down to the molecular level.
THE BIG BANG
TUESDAY, MAY 16 @ 10:00PM
Travel to 1920s Tennessee as the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers and the Memphis Jug Band make their first records with producer Ralph Peer on a revolutionary portable electronic recording system, creating the first R&B songs and modern country music.
THE 1880’S
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 @ 10:00PM
In spite high unemployment and intolerable conditions, people flock to London, desperate for work. When curious upper-class visitors are permitted to visit the slum as tourists, the participants realize how precarious their situation truly is.
FOREVER PURE
MONDAY, JUNE 11 @ 11:00PM
Beitar Jerusalem Football Club, formed in 1936, is the most popular and controversial soccer team in Israel, a symbol of right-wing politics and the only club in the Premier League never to sign an Arab player. Midway through the 2012-13 season a secretive transfer by the owner, Russian-Israeli oligarch Arcadi Gaydamak, brought two Muslim players from Chechnya onto the team.
ON MASTERPIECE
SUNDAY, MARCH 24 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
The hit Broadway show “King Charles III” is adapted for television. A 2016 Tony nominee for Best Play, the drama imagines Prince Charles? Ascension to the throne following Queen Elizabeth’s death.
SEASON 6, EPISODE 7
SUNDAY, MAY 14 @ 9:00PM
Dr. Turner helps the a family cope with the stresses of caring for a disabled child as the terrible legacy of thalidomide becomes apparent. Nurse Crane faces an unexpected crisis.
FRIDAY, MAY 12 @ 9:00PM
Two words that have been central to President Trump‘s persona for more than a decade sent shockwaves through Washington this week: “You’re fired.” Lawmakers are grappling with the consequences of the abrupt removal of FBI Director James Comey and what it may mean for the continuing investigations into Russia‘s meddling in last year’s presidential election.
ARCTIC GHOST SHIP
SATURDAY, JUNE 29 @ 10:00PM
NOVA presents an exclusive breakthrough in the greatest unsolved mystery in Arctic exploration. In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set off to chart the elusive Northwest Passage, commanding 128 men in two robust and well-stocked Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and Terror. They were never heard from again. Eventually, searchers found tantalizing clues to their fate: a hastily written note left on an island, exhumed bodies suggesting lead poisoning, discarded human bones with marks of cannibalism and Inuit legends of ghost ships. But no trace of the ships was ever found.
SEX & LIES
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 @ 11:00PM
Unveiling a world of deceit and treachery worthy of any fictional thriller: Plants behaving badly. Two groups of plants exhibit such intriguing behaviour that a century and a half ago they attracted the attention of Charles Darwin.
Revel in the ethereal beauty of orchids and examine their exotic flowers, which are shaped for one purpose – to attract pollinators. Many use sex as a lure, impersonating a female bee or wasp.
THE 1870’S
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 @ 11:00PM
Witness a dire economic depression heightened by the arrival of Irish migrants seeking work. Daily, the slum dwellers toil to fulfill clothing orders and make artificial flowers for factories. Some won?t be able to settle their debts.