THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 @ 8:00PM
Before they walked in, the White House made clear there would be no negotiating on a central point. When they walked out, there were no deals in hand. Welcome to day three of your government shutdown. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met Wednesday night for less than 90 minutes with the cast of congressional characters who could end the stalemate. Thursday morning, the president speaks at a construction company in Rockville, Md.
DON’T STOP BELIEVIN’: EVERYMAN’S JOURNEY
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 @ 8:00PM
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journeyfollows the real life rock ‘n’ roll fairy tale of Filipino singer Arnel Pineda, who was plucked from YouTube to become the frontman for the iconic American rock band Journey. In this Cinderella story for the ages, Arnel, having overcome a lifetime’s worth of hardships, must now navigate the immense pressures of replacing a legendary singer and leading a world-renowned band on their most extensive world tour in years.
FOYLE’S WAR/SUNFLOWER
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM
Foyle is given the distasteful task of protecting art historian Professor Peter Van Haren, an undercover ex-Nazi and a valuable MI5 intelligence asset against the Russians. But when Van Haren lectures a group of students on the self-portraits of the artist Rembrandt, his presence causes a young man to suffer a frightening flashback which ends in tragedy.
with GWEN IFILL
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 @ 7:30PM
Ahead of the Affordable Care Act’s latest provisions taking effect October 1, the White House has been focusing on educating the public about the health insurance exchanges. Simultaneously, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has continued his own campaign to defund the law, this week on the floor of the Senate.
But President Obama is not backing down from Republican threats to tie funding for Obamacare to the budget and efforts to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. He told a crowd at a community college in Maryland Thursday that Republicans were becoming increasingly “irresponsible” in opposing the law that provides health care for millions of uninsured Americans.
THE HOLLOW CROWN: HENRY IV, PART 1
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 @ 6:00PM
Henry IV’s reign is marred by his own guilt over Richard’s death, civil war, and the gnawing fear that his son Hal is a total wastrel unworthy of the throne. In this scene from the Shakespeare history play, Henry IV (Jeremy Irons) lectures his son, Prince Hal (Tom Hiddleston), on his poor and unprincelike conduct.
The heir to the throne, PRINCE HAL, defies his father, KING HENRY, by spending his time at MISTRESS QUICKLY’s tavern in the company of the dissolute FALSTAFF and his companions. The King is threatened by a rebellion led by HAL’s rival, HOTSPUR, his father NORTHUMBERLAND and his uncle WORCESTER. In the face of this danger to the state, PRINCE HAL joins his father to defeat the rebels at the BATTLE OF SHREWSBURY and kill HOTSPUR in single combat.
SATURDAY, JUNE 12 @ 5:00PM & 10:00PM
Like many great scientific discoveries, this one happens by accident. Sereno, an expert in locating dinosaur fossils, is on an expedition to Niger, in Saharan Africa. Six weeks into a three-month journey, his team makes an unexpected discovery: human bones, the remains of peoples who lived 10,000 and 5,000 years ago.
Sereno’s team counts dozens of skeletons within just a few minutes. Skeletons of the Sahara relates the story of this stunning find and what it reveals about two civilizations that once flourished in what is now the world’s largest desert. Skeletons of the Sahara joins Sereno on a return trip to Niger. After years of waiting for conflict in West Africa to stabilize, he can finally return to the area called “Gobero.” Over 10 years and five expeditions, Sereno has found more than 200 burial plots, each more intriguing than the last: a man buried with his head in a pot; another buried sitting in a turtle shell; a girl with a bracelet carved from hippo bone; and most striking of all, a woman embracing two children, hands entwined in a triple burial.
SOUTH AMERICA
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM
What would it be like to see the world from a bird’s perspective? To experience riding on the backs of bald eagles and snow geese or flying alongside a flock of brown pelicans as they scan and dive for fish in the ocean below. State-of-the-art technology and sophisticated camera techniques have now made it possible to do just that and more as EARTHFLIGHT, A Nature Special Presentation takes viewers on a breathtaking aerial adventure over six continents.
Episode Four: South America
Condors and scarlet macaws take us to the Andes and the Amazon. Giant petrels in Patagonia shadow killer whales. Hummingbirds feed at Iguazu Falls, vultures ride the thermals over Rio de Janeiro, and black vultures target turtle eggs in Costa Rica.
WAR AND PEACE/THE NEW LATINOS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM
World War II is a watershed event for Latino Americans with hundreds of thousands of men and women serving in the armed forces, most fighting side by side with Anglos. In the Pacific, East L.A.’s Guy Gabaldon becomes a Marine Corp legend when he singlehandedly captures more enemy soldiers than anyone in US military history. But on the home front, discrimination is not dead: in 1943, Anglo servicemen battle hip young “Zoot suitors” in racially charged riots in southern California.
After the war, Macario Garcia becomes the first Mexican National to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor for his exploits fighting in Europe, only to be refused service in a Texas diner. The experience during the war pushes Latinos to fight for civil rights back home. A doctor from South Texas, Hector Garcia, organizes the American GI Forum, transforming himself into a tireless advocate for civil rights and the friend of a future president. Although Latinos make significant gains, the journey for equality is far.
BEST KEPT SECRET
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 @ 11:00PM
At a public school in Newark, N.J., the staff answers the phone by saying, “You’ve reached John F. Kennedy High School, Newark’s best-kept secret.” JFK provides an exceptional environment for students with special-education needs. In Best Kept Secret, Janet Mino, who has taught a class of young men for four years, is on an urgent mission. She races against the clock as graduation approaches for her severely autistic minority students. Once they graduate and leave the security of this nurturing place, their options for living independently will be few. Mino must help them find the means to support themselves before they “age out” of the system. (90 minutes)
DETROIT
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 @ 10:00 PM
Learn about “Motor City” residents’ connections to world events and historical figures.
Genealogy Roadshow premiere season will feature participants from four American cities — Nashville, Detroit, San Francisco and Austin — who want to explore unverified genealogical claims, passed down through family history, that may (or may not) connect them to an event or a historical figure. These cities were chosen as American crossroads of culture, diversity, industry and history, with deep pools of potential participants and stories. After participants are chosen, experts in genealogy, history and DNA will use family heirlooms, letters, pictures, historical documents and other clues to hunt down more information.