WITH GWEN IFEL

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19 @ 9:00PM

Donald Trump tried something new Thursday: he expressed “regret” for some of his past statements that have “caused personal pain.” The change came just days after Trump announced a major campaign shakeup and brought in Stephen Bannon from the conservative news site Breitbart and promoted veteran GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager. Their first task will be to turn around Trump’s slipping poll numbers, but with less than three months to Election Day, can the new leadership team right the ship? The Republican nominee will travel to flood-ravaged Baton Rouge to tour the damage, and earlier this week he announced a new plan of “extreme vetting” for Muslim immigrants to the United States to stop the spread of ISIS.

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GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET

SATURDAY, AUGUST 20 @ 6:00PM

The title character of Madama Butterfly — a young Japanese geisha who clings to the belief that her arrangement with a visiting American naval officer is a loving and permanent marriage — is one of the defining roles in opera. The story triggers ideas about cultural and sexual imperialism for people far removed from the opera house, and film, Broadway, and popular culture in general have continue to riff endlessly on it. The lyric beauty of Puccini’s score, especially the music for the thoroughly believable lead role, has made Butterfly timeless. (3 Hours)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18 @ 9:00PM

The life and career of our 41st president, from his service in World War II and his early career in Texas to his days in the Oval Office, first as vice president to Ronald Reagan, then as the leader who presided over the first Gulf War. Drawing upon Bush’s personal diaries and interviews with his closest advisors and most prominent critics, the film also explores Bush’s role as the patriarch of a political family whose influence is unequaled in modern American life.

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM

Look back at the life and career of our 41st president, from his service in World War II and his early career in Texas to his days in the Oval Office, first as vice president to Ronald Reagan, then as the leader who presided over the first Gulf War. George H.W. Bush died in November 2018 at the age of 94. (3 HOURS)

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SEASON 8 ON MASTERPIECE

MAGNUM OPUS

SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM

In “Magnum Opus,” an Oxford college dean is found bludgeoned to death in the woods following a heated debate in a pub. An alchemic image purposefully left at the crime scene leads Lewis and Hathaway to anticipate that three more murders will follow. An unusual tattoo on the dean’s body and the bodies of two more victims leads to the discovery of a secret esoteric society and a frantic effort to prevent a fourth murder. Meanwhile, Hathaway is struggling to accept his father’s illness.

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THE FINALE

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 @ 9:00PM

Only three of the original twelve bakers remain. They face off in the final challenges. In the final signature challenge, the bakers make 16 iced buns, in two varities, in three hours. In the technical, the judges use one of Paul’s recipes: the bakers mustbake raspberry-flavoured mille-feuille in two hours. The recipe involves pastry, something all of the bakers have struggled with. In the final Showstopper, the bakers are given four hours to make classic British cakes in a multi-layered presentation.

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 @ 9:00PM

The enigmatic nature of the Nixon presidency combined comparatively progressive legislative initiatives with a flagrant abuse of presidential power and the public trust. His achievements in expanding peaceful relations with China and the Soviet Union stand in stark contrast with his continuation of the war in Vietnam. Finally brought down by scandal and duplicity, his administration did much to erode the citizenry’s faith in government.

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 @ 6:00PM & 12:00AM

The enigmatic nature of the Nixon presidency combined comparatively progressive legislative initiatives with a flagrant abuse of presidential power and the public trust. His achievements in expanding peaceful relations with China and the Soviet Union stand in stark contrast with his continuation of the war in Vietnam. Finally brought down by scandal and duplicity, his administration did much to erode the citizenry’s faith in government.

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10

PART 1 @ 9:00PM & PART 2 @ 11:00PM

Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court when, on June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall, the great-grandson of a slave, to sit on the highest court in the land. Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs, rivaling those of FDR’s New Deal, through Congress with astounding success. However, visions of a Great Society were swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam: the unpopular and costly war eroded his political base and left him an exile within his own White House.

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