ANIMAL ODD COUPLES

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 @ 11:00PM

Are animals capable of feeling complex emotions? Recent observations of unexpected cross-species relationships in zoos and animal sanctuaries around the world may provide some answers. Endearing interactions between a cheetah and a retriever, a lion and a coyote, a dog and a deer, a goat and a horse, and even a tortoise and a goose offer captivating glimpses of supportive connections in the animal world. Each interspecies pair challenges the conventional wisdom that humans are the only species capable of feeling compassion and forming long-lasting friendships.

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WHAT ARE ANIMALS THINKING?

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 @ 8:00PM

We humans have long wondered how animals see the world—and us. Does your dog really feel shame when it gives you that famous “guilty look?” What is behind the “swarm intelligence” of slime mold or a honeybee hive? How can pigeons possibly find their way home across hundreds of miles of unfamiliar terrain?

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ELECTION NIGHT 2012

A SPECIAL REPORT

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 @ 6:00PM

Watch live coverage of election results, co-anchored by senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff.

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SOLAR MAMAS

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 @ 8:00PM

Rafea is 30 years old with four children and a husband who is eager to take a third wife. She is a Bedouin woman living in a small Jordanian village close to the desert. With encouragement from the country’s Ministry of Environment, she leaves her village for the first time to go to the Barefoot College in India to train to become a solar-energy engineer.

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UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, SERIES 2

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

EPISODE 5: THE LAST WALTZ

Lady Agnes Holland decides to take the children away to keep them safe, but the real motive may be her exasperation with her marriage. Sir Hallam, bereft by her absence, sees the consequences of not acting sooner to improve things, while at the same time, still continuing to make them worse.

Downstairs, excitement brims over at the prospect of Lady Malcom’s Ball, and a new romance blossoms as a result. Another relationship is solidified, and a dream pursued, but in the face of war, ambitions are easily thwarted.

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with GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 @ 9:00PM

Both presidential candidates briefly put aside politics a week before Election Day as the Northeast was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy (Photo: CNN)

President Obama and Mitt Romney were back on the campaign trail today after Hurricane Sandy upended the presidential race forcing both candidates to temporarily suspend their campaigns.

The president canceled three days of campaigning to focus on recovery efforts and to survey storm-ravaged areas destroyed by the superstorm. Mr. Romney canceled events at the height of the disaster, and then returned to the campaign trail muting his political attacks on the president.

Now with just days until the general election and in a race so tight every vote counts, how are the candidates adjusting their political playbooks to insure a win?

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