YOUR INNER FISH

YOUR INNER MONKEY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 @ 8:00PM EPISODE THREE In the final episode of the series, “Your Inner Monkey,” Shubin delves into our primate past. He travels from the badlands of Ethiopia, where the famous hominid skeletons “Lucy” and “Ardi” were found, to a forest canopy in Florida, home to modern primates. En route, he explains how many aspects of...

PIONEERS OF TELEVISION

DOCTORS AND NURSES TUESDAY, APRIL 22 @ 9:00PM  From George Clooney on ER to Richard Chamberlain on Dr. Kildare, television’s long love affair with doctors and nurses shows no signs of letting up. Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Gloria Reuben, Howie Mandel, Ed Begley Jr., Chad Everett and others tell their stories. Find out more...

FRONTLINE

SOLITARY NATION TUESDAY, JUNE 16 @ 11:00PM The United States is alone among Western nations in its widespread use of solitary confinement in prison — what mental-health experts define as keeping an inmate locked down for 22 hours a day or more in a cell, with limited contact with others. Most corrections officials don’t call it solitary. They refer instead to punitive segregation, which...

INDEPENDENT LENS

MUSCLE SHOALS & WAITING FOR A TRAIN: THE TOSHIO HIRANO STORY MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 @ 8:00PM Located on the banks of the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of the most creative and defiant music in American history. Under the spiritual influence of the “Singing River” as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals is some of...

MASTERPIECE CLASSIC

MR. SELFRIDGE, SEASON 2 SUNDAY, APRIL 20 @ 10:00PM EPISODE 4 Young Englishmen are off to war, and Harry’s son, Gordon, is itching to enlist. Only fifteen, he is assigned to man the tea counter at the store instead. Harry is also itching to do something war-related and angles for a spot on the government’s military procurement committee. This leads to a high-stakes poker game, pitting the...