ORIGINS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 @ 10:00PM
The story of how it all began. It’s twelve years earlier and Duke and Eliza meet for the very first time.
Category Archives: Program Highlights
ALL CREATURES
RIGHT HAND MAN
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Busy and exhausted, James and Helen can’t get any time together. James thinks he’s found a solution when he hires a new trainee vet, Richard Carmody, but things don’t quite work out as he expects. Mrs. Pumphrey also has a new canine member of her household who has an antisocial problem that she needs addressed urgently. Mrs. Hall takes a big step forward in her relationship with Gerald.
CIVILIZATIONS
PARADISE ON EARTH
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 @ 6:00PM
Explore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. But landscape painting is seldom a straightforward portrayal of observed nature; it’s a projection of dreams, idylls, escapes and refuges—the elusive paradise on earth.
FUNNY WOMAN
EPISODE 2
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18 @ 11:00PM
Barbara lands a lead role in a new sitcom. But just as she’s about to realize her dream, news from home threatens to derail her plans.
MISS SCARLET & THE DUKE
SIX FEET UNDER
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8 @ 7:00PM
When a close friend of Mr. Potts is murdered, Eliza finds herself investigating the dark and macabre world of Victorian undertakers.
NATURE
BIG LITTLE JOURNEYS: SURVIVAL
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 @ 11:00PM
In Taiwan, a Formosan pangolin travels through a land of giants to find a mate in a protected forest. The lonely male encounters dangerous and strange characters along the way, from a cobra to a Formosan moon bear. In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a family of golden-headed lion tamarins, searching for food, journey to a land of plenty and face an ocelot and a monkey-eating harpy eagle in their path.
FINDING YOUR ROOTS
FATHERS AND SONS
TUESDAY, MAY 7 @ 9:00PM
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets actors LeVar Burton and Wes Studi—two men who grew up without their fathers. With few clues to guide him, Gates introduces them to ancestors they’ve never known—revealing connections to key moments in history.
TUTANKHAMUN
ALLIES & ENEMIES
EPISODE 1
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
This film marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb and is a journey of exploration for Egyptian co-hosts Yasmin El Shazly and Mahmoud Rashad into the mysteries and unanswered questions about the boy king’s life, his infamous father’s religious revolution, and those advising him as he takes the throne in one of the most tumultuous periods of Egyptian history. (Followed by Episode 2)
POV
BRIEF TENDER LIGHT
MONDAY, JANUARY 15 @ 7:30PM
A Ghanaian MIT alum follows four African students at his alma mater as they strive to become agents of change for their home countries Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Over an intimate, nearly decade-long journey, all must decide how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to reconcile teenage ideals with the truths they discover about the world and themselves.
CIVILIZATIONS
GOD AND ART
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 @ 5:00PM
Trace the relationship between religion and art, which has inspired some of the most ingenious, affecting, majestic and breathtaking works of art ever made. Yet beneath great works of religious art often lie conflict, intrigue and divine mysteries.