FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 @ 9:30PM
In a special edition of Need to Know, anchor Maria Hinojosa travels to the critical swing state of Florida where one in seven registered voters is Hispanic. The show will examine how both presidential campaigns are courting the Hispanic vote and how those voters are receiving the candidates’ messages.
LEMON
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 @ 8:00PM
When Lemon Andersen held a Tony Award in his hands for his work in Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, it was close to a miracle. This poet and performer was a three-time felon who’d achieved more than anyone could have ever imagined. But when the show closed, he lost everything and moved his wife and two small daughters back to the projects. In desperation, he turned to the only thing he had left — his pen and his past. Lemon follows his journey to take his life story to the New York stage while battling his darkest demons. Lemonwas co-produced and directed by Laura Brownson and Beth Levison.
SUN KISSED
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 @ 8:00PM
When a Navajo couple discovers their children have a disorder that makes exposure to sunlight fatal, they also learn their reservation is a hotbed for this rare genetic disease. Why? Sun Kissed follows Dorey and Yolanda Nez as they confront cultural taboos, tribal history and their own unconventional choices to learn the shocking truth: The consequences of the Navajos’ Long Walk — their forced relocation by the U.S. military in 1864 — are far from over.
WOLVERINE: CHASING THE PHANTOM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Wolverines are among the most elusive creatures on the planet. They seek out the toughest terrain – the most rugged, remote and fiercely raw – and they’ve always been scarce to begin with. So they’re hard to find. They weigh only about 30 pounds, but they have a ton of attitude and a reputation to match. They eat everything, dead or alive, warm or frozen, and will climb anything, even mountains. It’s impossible for humans to keep up with them. They’re built to travel long distances with minimum effort across deep snow or up the sides of sheer cliffs. They roam an enormous territory of about 500 square miles – a home turf larger than an average grizzly bear’s. And they share it only with their immediate family. It’s “no trespassing” for everybody else.
FORENSICS ON TRIAL
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 @ 7:00PM & 12:AM
There is a startling gap between the glamorous television world of “CSI” and the gritty reality of the forensic crime lab. With few established scientific standards, no central oversight, and poor regulation of examiners, forensics in the U.S. is in a state of crisis. In “Forensics on Trial”, NOVA investigates how modern forensics, including the analysis of fingerprints, bite marks, ballistics, hair, and tool marks, can send innocent men and women to prison—and sometimes even to death row.
A SPECIAL REPORT
2ND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 @ 7:00PM
Tonight’s town-hall debate has high stakes for both candidates. What should viewers expect?
President Obama and Mitt Romney prepare to meet once more for a high-stakes debate, this one a town hall where voters will ask most of the questions and with exactly three weeks until the nation decides which one of them will take the oath of office in January.
UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, SERIES 2
EPISODE 2: THE LOVE THAT PAYS THE PRICE
SUN, OCTOBER 14 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
The full, formal settings come out as an array of luminaries arrive for a grand evening at 165 Eaton Place. Amidst the jocular conversation, Sir Hallam Holland receives an unexpected and serious offer – one that could significantly alter life for everyone at Eaton Place.
Mrs. Thackeray, the cook, has reconnected with family, opening up the prospect for a different life. And the tug of familial bonds is felt upstairs as well when Sir Hallam and Lady Agnes receive an alarming 2 AM call from Lady Persie, who in the middle of the fiery chaos of Germany, is frantic to come home.
UNFINISHED SPACES
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 @ 11:00PM
In 1961, in the heady first days of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro asked three visionary architects to build the Cuban National Arts Schools on what had been the golf course of a country club. Before construction was completed, the Revolution became Sovietized, and suddenly the project was denounced as bourgeois and counter-revolutionary. By considering the buildings, Unfinished Spaces looks at the ever-shifting history of Castro’s Cuba and follow the fates of the three architects, now in their 80s, who may get a second chance to revitalize their utopian project. Unfinished Spaceswas co-produced and co-directed by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray.
MARGARET MITCHELL: AMERICAN REBEL
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 @ 10:00PM
Margaret Mitchell was no ordinary writer. The one book she published in her lifetime – Gone With the Wind – sold millions of copies at the height of the Great Depression in America and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937, 75 years ago. With over 30 million copies sold to date, it is one of the world’s best-selling novels. Equally impressive, the film adaptation of Gone With the Windbroke all box office records when it premiered in 1939, and received 10 Academy Awards.
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