SUNDAY, MAY 26 @ 6:00PM & 7:30PM

AND 10:00PM & 11:30PM

Each year, the “National Memorial Day Concert” presents a unique program honoring the valor and patriotism of Americans who have served our country in times of conflict. The show pays tribute to their sacrifices, as well as those of their families and loved ones.

The program is co-hosted for the eighth year by Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna (“Criminal Minds”) and Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise (“CSI: New York”), two acclaimed actors dedicated to supporting veterans and troops in active service. They will be joined by an all-star line-up including: distinguished American leader Gen. Colin L. Powell USA (Ret.) and the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of top pops conductor Jack Everly

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AUDRA MCDONALD IN CONCERT

GO BACK HOME

SATURDAY, MAY 25 @ 9:00PM

By Martin Bookspan

As I’m sure is true for many of you, I first became aware of Audra McDonald from her performance in Terrence McNally’s play, “Master Class.” She played the role of a young, aspiring opera singer attending Maria Callas’s Master Class at New York’s Juilliard School of Music (one of the constituent institutions of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts). As portrayed by McNally, Callas was merciless in assessing the potential of the character played by Miss McDonald. But through it all the brutalized young student maintained a cool and unbowed demeanor. That role won for Audra McDonald one of her five Tony Awards for outstanding performance on the Broadway stage.

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VOCES SPECIAL PRESENTATION

SATURDAY, MAY 25 @ 7:00PM

Loreta Velazquez, Havana born and New Orleans raised, was no typical Southern Belle. Master of disguise, bewitching to both sexes, she, was brash, quick-witted, and unconventional. Her 1876 memoir A Woman in Battlescandalized the South when she revealed she had fought as a soldier and spy. Attacked not only for her criticism of the Confederacy and the corruption of wartime society, but for her sexual freedom and social rule breaking, Loreta has been dismissed as a hoax for over a century. But recent evidence including letters, official government documents, newspaper articles and more indicate she was too easily dismissed. Who was she? Why did she fight? And what made her so dangerous she was erased from history?

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THE WHITE LIONS

SUNDAY, JUNE 7 @ 10:00PM

White lions are among the rarest and most treasured animals in the world. Rarer still is their survival in the wild. Their white color stands out in Africa’s wild bush country, increasing their risk of being targeted and killed by rival predators and marauding adult male lions.

Used primarily for communication and camouflage, color is one of nature’s most dependable defenses. White lions lose the ability to blend in to their surroundings, exposing them to other predators as well as jeopardizing their own ability to hunt.

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AMERICAN MASTERS

MONDAY, MAY 20 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

After 60 years in show business, Mel Brooks has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer; he is one of 14 EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners. Yet, the comedy giant has energetically avoided a documentary profile being made, even issuing an informal gag order on his friends … until now. Brooks agreed to throw himself into a new documentary about his storied career, giving American Masters exclusive interviews and complete access to his film and photo archives.

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MR. SELFRIDGE

SEASON FINALE

SUNDAY, MAY 19 @ 10:00PM

In Episode 8 of Mr. Selfridge, tragedy strikes on the day polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton comes to the store. An even greater celebrity plans a visit, and Harry and Rose attend a shocking play.

Jeremy Piven (Entourage) stars in Mr. Selfridge as a wheeling-dealing American who shows early 1900s Londoners how to shop. Based on the life of colorful retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge, the new eight-part series is created by Emmy® Award-winning writer Andrew Davies(Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House). Also starring are Frances O’Connor (Madame Bovary), Aisling Loftus (Page Eight), Zoe Tapper (Zen), Amanda Abbington (Case Histories), and Samuel West (Any Human Heart).

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SEASON FINALE

SUNDAY, MAY 19 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM

Chummy and PC Noakes meet with new challenges as they settle back into life in Poplar. Fred is in high spirits when his pregnant daughter, Dolly arrives to stay with him. Jenny’s has a potential love interest. Old buildings are demolished to make new way for new flats, a situation that reaches crisis point when the convent comes under threat.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, MAY 17 @ 9:00PM

Scandal Fallout: IRS, Benghazi and Justice Probes Reporters

A trifecta of troubles dogged the Obama administration this week. There was the continuing fallout from the deadly attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Then news broke that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting conservative groups when they applied for tax exempt status. And finally it was revealed that the Justice Department had secretly seized the telephone records of Associated Press reporters as part of an investigation into classified leaks.

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AT THE MET

RIGOLETTO

SATURDAY, MAY 18 @ 6:00PM

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) makes his Met debut with a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. The new staging moves the opera’s tragic events from a decadent 16th-century Italian court to the glitzy, depraved setting of the Las Vegas strip circa 1960, and airs on Great Performances at the Mettonight on MCPTV 26.1 !

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CAVEMEN COLD CASE

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 @ 11:00PM

A tomb of 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidron, a remote, mountainous region of Northern Spain, leads to a compelling investigation to solve a double mystery: How did this group of Neanderthals die? And, could the fate of this group help explain Neanderthal extinction? Scientists examine the bones—buried over 65 feet below ground—and discover signs that tell a shocking story of how this group of six adults, three teenagers, two children and a baby may have met their death. Some bones have deep cuts, long bones are cracked and skulls crushed—distinct signs of cannibalism.

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