CALL THE MIDWIFE

SEASON FINALE SUNDAY, MAY 19 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM Chummy and PC Noakes meet with new challenges as they settle back into life in Poplar. Fred is in high spirits when his pregnant daughter, Dolly arrives to stay with him. Jenny’s has a potential love interest. Old buildings are demolished to make new way for new flats, a situation that reaches crisis point when the convent comes under...

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, MAY 17 @ 9:00PM Scandal Fallout: IRS, Benghazi and Justice Probes Reporters A trifecta of troubles dogged the Obama administration this week. There was the continuing fallout from the deadly attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Then news broke that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting conservative groups when they applied for tax exempt status....

GREAT PERFORMANCES

AT THE MET RIGOLETTO SATURDAY, MAY 18 @ 6:00PM Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) makes his Met debut with a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. The new staging moves the opera’s tragic events from a decadent 16th-century Italian court to the glitzy, depraved setting of the Las Vegas strip circa 1960, and airs on Great Performances at the Mettonight on MCPTV 26.1...

SECRETS OF THE DEAD

CAVEMEN COLD CASE WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 @ 11:00PM A tomb of 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidron, a remote, mountainous region of Northern Spain, leads to a compelling investigation to solve a double mystery: How did this group of Neanderthals die? And, could the fate of this group help explain Neanderthal extinction? Scientists examine the bones—buried over 65 feet below...

NATURE

GREAT ZEBRA EXODUS SUNDAY, MARCH 26 @ 10:00PM Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Pans are home to the largest zebra population in southern Africa, but it’s not an easy life. There is no permanent water in the arid saltpans, so thousands of zebras are dependent on isolated summer rains for their survival. Fleeting thundershowers produce islands of grass scattered across the otherwise barren...