MAKING NORTH AMERICA

HUMAN

SATURDAY, JULY 16 @ 11:00PM

Explore the intimate connections between the landscape, the colonizing of the continent, and the emergence of our industrial world. Beginning with Native American ancestors who crafted hunting weapons from stone traded across hundreds of miles, the program shows how pre-Columbian civilizations developed an expert knowledge of the landscape and its resources. With the arrival of Europeans, North America’s hidden riches became to key to prosperity.

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INSIDE STORY

TUESDAYDAY, DECEMBER 20 @ 11:00PM

A historical tour of the White House, featuring remarks from President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, former president Jimmy Carter, former first ladies Barbara Bush, Laura Bush and Rosalynn Carter, and former employees, historians, members of the press. (2 HOURS)

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TO BEGIN THE WORLD

MONDAY, JULY 11 @ 11:00PM

Thomas Paine is a man largely forgotten and greatly misunderstood, ironically quoted by all and every political faction in America today. Yet his ideas about democracy, equality, slavery, pensions, healthcare, education and morality would have created a very different kind of nation if they had been acted on. He was a man who changed the world, only to have the world he changed turn its back on him. The man who ignited revolutions would die largely ignored and distained, but when he was writing his books he was at the epicenter of world events, literally transforming nations through the power of his words. All the triumphs and tragedies of his life are here in this film of a live performance of the acclaimed one-man play To Begin the World Over Again: the Life of Thomas Paine, shot in front of a live audience at the Lillian Theatre, Hollywood.

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SEASON 3 ON MASTERPIECE

CODA

SUNDAY, JULY 10 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM

June 1967. Endeavour is occupied with unexpected strife in his personal life. Recruited by a college mentor to monitor the movements of his estranged younger wife, Endeavour finds himself drawn to the woman he is investigating. The grisly murder of a man who works in fashion causes a shakeup in Oxford’s criminal underworld. Meanwhile, Endeavour considers his future on the force, leading to an agonizing conclusion to the series.

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ONE OF A KIND

SATURDAY, JULY 9 @ 11:00PM

Episode two continues to follow the incredible journey focusing on the middle months of our time in the womb when we become unique individuals. For the first ten weeks of pregnancy our biological sex is hidden. Meet the remarkable village of people in the Dominican Republic where the sex determination process in the womb doesn’t always run to plan.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, JULY 8 @ 9:00PM

This Week on Washington Week: No charges for Clinton in email controversy and Trump tries to reassure Republicans in Congress

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BISCUITS

SUNDAY, JULY 10 @ 5:00PM

With cake week done, the remaining bakers must now prove themselves with biscuits. For the signature challenge, the bakers are given two hours to bake 24 identical biscotti of any shape, flavour or size. In the technical challenge, they are required to make eight arlettes, which are high-end light delicate cinnamon-flavoured biscuits, in two and a half hours. For the Showstopper, they must face the challenge of making 36 biscuits, to be presented in a biscuit box made of a different kind of biscuit mix. They are given four hours in this challenge.

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EPISODE 2

THURSDAY, JULY 7 @ 7:00PM

Follow the band on a private train ride to a picnic arranged by Donaldson. Stanley and Pamela begin an affair, Julian becomes infatuated with Jessie and band manager Wesley is deported. The Prince of Wales hears the band and expresses his approval.

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Making North America

LIFE

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 @ 11:00PM

How did life emerge on our primeval continent? Why was North America home to so many iconic dinosaurs like T. rex? And how did a huge sea filled with giant marine reptiles end up covering Kansas? We tell the surprising intertwined story of life and the landscape in North America.

Mighty, elemental forces molded North America—fiery eruptions, titanic floods, the grinding of great ice sheets, and massive impacts from space all shaped our homeland. The epic three-part series unfolds in a forgotten world that existed long before our own, crossed by long-lost mountain ranges, deserts the size of Africa, and vast inland seas spanning the length of the continent.

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MASTERS OF THE SKY

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM

In this episode we see how nature has pushed the basic flying body plan to extremes. How do the heaviest animals take off, the fastest use speed as a weapon, or those traversing the widest oceans do so with barely a wing beat?  All these record breakers push physics and physiology to the limit, but although each one employs a different aerodynamic mix of speed, maneuverability, endurance and power it allows them all, in their own unique way, to become true masters of the sky.

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