GREAT PERFORMANCES

NOEL COWARD’S PRESENT LAUGHTER FRIDAY, JULY 31 @ 10:00PM Noël Coward’s Present Laughter follows a self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Juggling his considerable talent, ego and libido, the theater’s favorite leading man suddenly finds himself caught between fawning ingénues, crazed playwrights, secret trysts and unexpected twists. FIND OUT MORE...

THIS OLD HOUSE

WESTERLY | DECKING FOR BEGINNERS THURSDAY, JULY 30 @ 9:00PM Tom Silva teaches the new apprentices to frame a deck. Jeff Sweenor’s crew frames the exterior flair detail. Jenn Nawada learns about Westerly granite. Jeff teaches the apprentices to install a window. Richard Trethewey and Jeff look for a path for the drain stacks. FIND OUT MORE...

THE WAR

WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH THURSDAY, JULY 30 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM THE WAR, a seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history. FIND OUT MORE...

FORCES OF NATURE

ELEMENTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM The forces of nature make Earth a restless planet, but they also turned our ball of rock into a home for life. How did our planet’s ingredients, the chemical elements, come together and take that first crucial step from barren rock to a living world? FIND OUT MORE...

NOVA

MAKING NORTH AMERICA HUMAN SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 @ 8:00PM Explore the intimate connections between the landscape, the colonizing of the continent, and the emergence of our industrial world. Beginning with Native American ancestors who crafted hunting weapons from stone traded across hundreds of miles, the program shows how pre-Columbian civilizations developed an expert knowledge of the landscape and...