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FRIDAY, APRIL 29 @ 9:00PM
Category Archives: Program Highlights
THIS OLD HOUSE
THIS OLD HOUSE
THURSDAY, MAY 5 @ 6:00PM
THIS OLD HOUSE: Erik installs clapboard siding. Roger and landscape architect Kim select salvaged granite for the yard. ASK THIS OLD HOUSE: Scott pumps up the party in Texas with festive deck lighting. Kevin investigates fireplace options
THE NATIONAL PARKS
AMERICA’S BEST IDEA
GOING HOME (1920-1933)
THURSDAY, APRIL 28 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
As America embraces the automobile, a Nebraska housewife searches for peace and inspiration in park after park, while a honeymoon couple seeks fame and adventure in the Grand Canyon; and the future of the Great Smoky Mountains becomes caught in a race with the lumbermen’s saws.
GRANTCHESTER
SEASON 2 ON MASTERPIECE
THURSDAY, MAY 5 @ 10:00PM
Will Gary go to the gallows? Will Geordie go to prison? Are Sidney and Geordie’s crime-fighting days over? The case of a suspicious death takes a surprising turn.
CALL THE MIDWIFE
SEASON 5, EPISODE 4
SUNDAY, APRIL 24 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
As the modern world begins to encroach on traditional Poplar life, everyone is starting to notice the changes. On secondment at a busy local hospital, Sister Julienne is impressed by the medical advances that are saving the lives of mothers and babies. But a traumatic birth raises moral questions for her which she struggles to answer.
BIG BLUE LIVE
THE BEST OF BIG BLUE LIVE
SATURDAY, JUNE 10 @ 11:00PM
Compilation of the best content from the series called “Big Blue Live.”
Join scientists, animal behaviorists and other experts in Monterey Bay, California, to view its once endangered, now thriving, ecosystem, where nature’s most charismatic marine creatures gather to feed on an abundance of food.
WASHINGTON WEEK
WITH GWEN IFILL
FRIDAY, APRIL 22 @ 9:00PM
This Week on Washington Week: Clinton, Trump clear front-runners; Obama’s foreign policy fence-mending and Tubman new face of $20.
JAZZ
SWING: THE VELOCITY OF CELEBRATION (1937-1939)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
As the Great Depression deepens, jazz thrives. The saxophone emerges as an iconic instrument of the music and women musicians emerge on the jazz scene. Benny Goodman holds the first-ever jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns tells the story of jazz – the quintessential American art form. The 10-part series follows the growth and development of jazz music from its beginnings to the present.
GRANTCHESTER
SEASON 2 ON MASTERPIECE
THURSDAY, APRIL 21 @ 7:00PM
EPISODE 4
An apparent suicide leads Sidney to perform an exorcism. Gary goes on trial. Leonard bets on a longshot. Margaret makes her move. Amanda confronts her lost love.
NOVA
WILD WAYS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26 @ 11:00PM
Four-lane highways may be a necessity to our modern society, but they can be a death traps for millions of animals that try to cross them. Around the world, wildlife need to roam for breeding, foraging, and to carry out their traditional migrations–but they are often blocked by ranches, farms, roads, and other human-made obstacles. While national parks and preserves offer some protection to wildlife, even the magnificent Serengeti and Yellowstone parks are too small to sustain healthy populations over generations.