THE PLATYPUS GUARDIAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 @ 9:00PM
Witness the story of Pete Walsh, a Tasmanian man who befriends a platypus he names Zoom. With the help of experts, Pete learns more about the platypus’s secret world in a mission to protect them from the dangers of urban development.
JURASSIC FORTUNES
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM
Discover the world of dinosaur collecting, a controversial hobby with a booming market. Hear perspectives on the fossil trade from private collectors, paleontologists, and others, as “Big John”—the largest Triceratops fossil ever found—is assembled in Italy and auctioned in France.
INTO THE STORM
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 @ 9:00PM
By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions is teetering on the brink of extinction. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever. In English audio with captions, Spanish audio with captions, and Descriptive Audio.
BLOOD MEMORY
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 @ 6:00PM
The American Buffalo, a new two-part, four-hour series, takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, its significance to the Indigenous people and landscape of the Great Plains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring the magnificent mammals back from the brink. (2 HOURS)
SEASON 2, EPISODE 1
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 @ 11:00PM
When a phone with a recording of a brutal drowning is handed to police headquarters, the pressure is on for Annika and the team to track down the murderer. Season 2 starts tonight!
SEASON 2, EPISODE 1
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 @ 11:00PM
Season 2 opens in 1941. WWII has reached the sands of the Egyptian desert while German bombs fall on Manchester in England. Harry introduces an explosive force into Robina’s household.
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ROBERT GLASPER’S BLACK RADIO
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 @10:00PM
Robert Glasper, five-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, and producer, invites his tightly knit community of collaborators to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his iconic, award-winning, and cross-genre revolutionary album — “Black Radio.” Accompanied by Lalah Hathaway, Meshell Ndegeocello, Bilal, and many more, Glasper reimagines his seminal album.
WANNA ICIPUS KUPI (COMING HOME)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 @ 11:00PM
Coming Home, the compelling feature-length documentary by director Erica Daniels, takes viewers behind the scenes of the production of the much-anticipated dramatic series Little Bird and the groundbreaking movement for Indigenous narrative sovereignty as experienced through the series’ Indigenous creatives, crew and ‘60s Scoop advisors.
LOVE IS ALL AROUND
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 @ 8:00PM
Bezhig Little Bird was adopted into a Jewish family at the age of five, being stripped of her identity and becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and to fill in the missing pieces. Her quest lands her in the Canadian prairies where she discovers that she was one of the generation of children forcibly apprehended by the Canadian government.
ANCIENT EARTH: FROZEN
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 @4:00PM
700 million years ago, Earth was a giant snowball cloaked in ice from pole to pole – a global deep freeze that held the planet in a stranglehold, threatening the survival of the earliest complex life. How did life manage to hold on in this forbidding world? Leading scientists investigate how this catastrophe may have become a catalyst for life to evolve in creative new ways as it bounced back from the brink – setting the stage for the astonishing complexity we see today.