Category Archives: Program Highlights

GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW

MASTERCLASS 4

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 @ 9:00PM

In the final masterclass of the series, Mary and Paul heat up the ovens and get out the mixing bowls one last time to create the signature, technical and showstopper challenges from the last part of The Great British Baking Show.

Mary makes a Tennis Cake based on the 19th century recipe that was the technical challenge from Victorian week. Paul makes two types of Cream Horns – the first filled with with a Mocha crème pat and the rest with a Limoncello Tutti Frutti Cream. Mary shows us how to be delicate, precise and perfect with her Mokatines and Paul gets to grips with an epic construction in choux pastry – le Religieuse a l’Ancienne.


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AMERICAN MASTERS

AUGUST WILSON

THE GROUND ON WHICH I STAND

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 @ 11:00PM

Explore the life and legacy of the playwright some call America’s Shakespeare, who chronicled the 20th-century black experience. Features James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Laurence Fishburne, Viola Davis, new dramatic readings and rare footage.


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ALICIA KEYS

LANDMARKS LIVE IN CONCERT

A GREAT PERFORMANCES SPECIAL

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 @ 11:00PM

Enjoy the debut of a pop music series. Grammy-winner Alicia Keys performs in notable locations all around New York, including the world-famous Circle Line, the Unisphere and Harlem’s Apollo. Hosted by Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.


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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 @ 7:00PM

On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. Over the next twelve days, as a fractured nation mourned, the largest manhunt ever attempted closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old renowned actor, John Wilkes Booth.

In November 1860, a little-known Republican state senator from Illinois named Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. Since he was a vocal opponent of slavery, Lincoln’s victory enraged millions of Southern sympathizers, including an acclaimed young actor named John Booth, who blamed abolitionists for the growing division of the country.


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FRONTLINE

DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 @ 7:00PM

Days before the inauguration of the 45th American president in January 2017, FRONTLINE will premiere “Divided States of America,” a four-hour, two-night documentary miniseries that looks back at events during the Obama presidency that have revealed deep divisions in our country, and examines the America that President-elect Donald Trump will inherit.


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INDEPENDENT LENS

WHAT WAS OURS

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27  @ 8:00PM

Like millions of indigenous people, many Native American tribes do not control their own material history and culture. For the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes living on the isolated Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, new contact with lost artifacts risks opening old wounds but also offers the possibility for healing. What Was Ours is the story of how a young journalist and a teenage powwow princess, both of the Arapaho tribe, traveled together with a Shoshone elder in search of missing artifacts in the vast archives of Chicago’s Field Museum. There they discover a treasure trove of ancestral objects, setting them on a journey to recover what has been lost and build hope for the future.


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VICTORIA

ON MASTERPIECE

DOLL 123

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

In 1837, a diminutive, neglected teenager is crowned Queen Victoria, navigates the scandal, corruption, and political intrigues of the Court, and soon rises to become the most powerful woman in the world. Victoria stars Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who) as Queen Victoria in a highly anticipated series that follows the drama of the candid, spirited monarch who was perhaps the first woman to seem to have it all.


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SHERLOCK

SEASON 4 ON MASTERPIECE

THE FINAL PROBLEM

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

In the final episode of this new season, long buried secrets finally catch up with the Baker Street duo. Someone has been playing a very long game indeed and Sherlock and John Watson face their greatest ever challenge. Is the game finally over?


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SOUNDSTAGE

JON SECADA

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 @ 10:00PM

Latin superstar Jon Secada, who began his three-decade career with Gloria and Emilio Estefan, returns to his Havana roots for SOUNDSTAGE with a thrilling tribute to Cuban legend Benny More, and his own wildly popular hits.


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