SEASON 1, EPISODE 7

PASTRIES

SATURDAY, SATURDAY @ 9:00PM

Week seven in the tent sees the bakers tested on all kinds of weird, wonderful pastries. They’re assigned Signature savory parcels, ranging from pasties to samosas. The Technical challenge throws them into uncharted territory with a pastry none has heard of … the round and crusty kouign amann. Paul tests the bakers’ patience in a challenge to create this multi-layered, buttery pastry. Finally, Showstopper éclairs will give five lucky bakers a spot in the quarter-finals.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 10 @ 9:00PM

This Week on Washington Week: GOP health care replacement faces tough opposition and WikiLeaks details CIA spying tactics.

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AT THE MET

ELEKTRA

FRIDAY, MARCH 10 @ 7:00PM @ 12:00AM

Richard Strauss’s blazing tragedy is presented in the late Patrice Chereau’s production, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, with Nina Stemme as the vengeful princess and Waltraud Meier, Adrianne Pieczonka, Eric Owens and Burkhard Ulrich.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10  @ 10:00PM

From the Duchess of Cambridge’s Issa engagement dress to Lady Diana’s Emmanuel wedding gown, the world has a well-documented obsession with contemporary royal fashion. But the power of clothes to project a message has long been understood by our royals. 

In “Tales from the Royal Wardrobe,” Dr. Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, will peek under the robes of Kings and Queens past and present, asking what their chosen garments reveal about their reigns, what message they were trying to project with their selected attire and how their majesties’ sartorial choices influenced the fashion of the day.

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ON MASTERPIECE

YOUNG ENGLAND

SUNDAY, MARCH 5 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

On the verge of delivering her first child, Victoria spurns advice and ventures among her subjects, attracting the devoted and demented alike. Miss Skerrett and Francatelli reach their decisive moment.

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HOUSE OF BONDAGE

THURSDAY, MARCH 9 @ 7:00PM

After Antietam, the Greens suffer a setback and Pinkerton’s inquiry heats up. Foster and Samuel visit Foster’s family plantation, where they intervene in a difficult labor. The hospital staff unites to oust their hated chief. Final Episode.

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CONTINENTAL CAKE

SATURDAY, MARCH 4 @ 9:00PM

And then there were six. The remaining bakers now face three European cakes. For the Signature, bakers are asked to make yeast-leavened cakes. Their work’s cut out for them in the most demanding Technical challenge yet: they have two hours to make the 24-step Swedish Princess torte. And finally, for the Showstopper, they must create a contemporary version of the Hungarian Dobos torte.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 3 @ 9:00PM

Russia’s intrusion in the U.S. presidential election continues to distract the Trump administration.  Less than a month in office, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is under fire for two conversations he had with Russia’s ambassador to the United States last year, which he denied during his confirmation hearing in January. While the attorney general now says he did not discuss the presidential campaign during his meetings with Russian officials, Sessions recused himself from any investigations into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

The story of Alexander Hamilton is most remembered for its dramatic conclusion, which saw Hamilton killed in a duel by Vice President Aaron Burr. But the full story of this political genius – a poor immigrant who built himself up from nothing to become one of the nation’s most vital architects – has largely been forgotten by history…until now.

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COMMERCE AND THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS

THURSDAY, MARCH 2 @ 11:00PM

In the series’ final hour, host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. brings the story of “Africa’s Great Civilizations” into the nineteenth century, when a fierce competition for resources and trade stimulated ingenuity, while also enticing European powers and inciting conflicts that would threaten the stability and wellbeing of the continent. Gates begins his journey along South Africa’s eastern coast, where, in the early decades of the nineteenth century, the legendary warrior Shaka Zulu transformed a chiefdom into the feared Zulu empire, seizing territory with intensely trained, disciplined regiments of soldiers, amabutho, and deploying those regiments in new, close-combat battlefield formations with a formidable new weapon, a short, stabbing spear. It was an era of tumultuous change on the continent, known as the Mfecane, when African kingdoms felt the squeeze of their rivals, no less encroaching foreign traders, and conflict and environmental challenges disrupted borders and displaced populations.

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