ZORA NEALE HURSTON
CLAIMING A SPACE
SATURDAY, MARCH 30 @ 9:00PM
Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean — reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms.
SECRET LIVES
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Henry Louis Gates helps comedians Carol Burnett and Niecy Nash decode scandals and secrets that have lain hidden within their roots for generations, revealing stories that their ancestors went to great lengths to conceal. Along the way, Gates and his guests also explore the larger meaning of family bonds—and celebrate the virtue of accepting one’s relatives, whoever they may be.
THE BIG PAYBACK
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 @ 9:00PM
An Evanston, Illinois rookie alderwoman led the passage of the first tax-funded reparations bill for Black Americans. While she and her community struggle with the burden to make restitution for its citizens, a national racial crisis engulfs the country. Will the debt ever be addressed, or is it too late for a reparations movement to finally get the big payback?
DEADLY COMMUNION PART 2
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15 @ 11:00PM
The search for the killer of two young beautiful women continues under the ever-present fear that there will be more victims. Oskar’s friendship with a lady he meets through the investigation brings a smile to his face. But as the killer reaches out to Max, Oskar becomes deeply unsettled by the murderer’s conviction that he is an artist who brings a beautiful end to his victims’ lives.
HONEYMOON’S OVER
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10 @ 11:00PM
James and Helen enter married life, while James settles in uneasily as Siegfrieds partner at the clinic. Tristan too must make new adjustments.
YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13 @10:00PM
As World War II begins, Americans are united in their disapproval of Nazi brutality but divided on whether to act. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Meanwhile, Charles Lindbergh and isolationists battle with Roosevelt to try to keep America out of the war. Germany invades the Soviet Union and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.
NEWBURYPORT | POWERING THROUGH
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 @ 9:00PM
Before demo begins, the main power is disconnected. The old bump out is demoed, and the present bathroom is tested for asbestos. A carpenter talks about working with Parkinson’s Disease. The vinyl siding is removed to reveal the original clapboards.
WHAT I EXPECT FROM MYSELF
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Teresa moves to a little house in Seville and gives Carmen, the new administrator, her room. Carmen’s first attempt at trimming the budget does not go over well with the students.
BEYOND THE ELEMENTS
REACTIONS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11 @ 10:00PM
Just about every solid, liquid, or gas in the world as we know it begins with reactions between individual atoms and molecules. Host David Pogue dives into the transformative world of chemical reactions, from the complex formula that produces cement to the single reaction that’s allowed farmers to feed a global population by the billions—a reaction that when reversed, unleashes high explosives.
SALEM’S LOT
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 @ 9:00PM
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes actors Claire Danes and Jeff Daniels on a journey into their roots, uncovering primal scenes from our nation’s past. Weaving together stories of soldiers, settlers, immigrants and entrepreneurs, Gates travels from World War I battlefields to Civil War prison camps to America’s most infamous witch hunt—offering his guests insight into what made them who they are today.