WED May 8 | 7 P.M.
MON May 6 | 9 p.m.
NASA’s goal to send astronauts to Mars would require a three-year absence from Earth, during which communication in real time would be impossible due to the immense distance. Meet the psychologists whose job is to keep astronauts mentally stable in outer space, as they are caught between their dream of reaching new frontiers and the basic human need to stay connected to home.
WED May 15 | 8 p.m.
Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. That can pose a risk to your privacy – even your safety. But at the same time, big datasets could lead to huge advances in fields like medicine. Host Alok Patel leads a quest to understand what happens to all the data we’re shedding and explores the latest efforts to maximize benefits – without compromising personal privacy.
WED May 22 | 7 p.m.
Ireland is renowned worldwide for its lush green landscapes and wild Atlantic coast, but one of its greatest natural treasures is a desert of grey stones called the Burren, which is home to some of Ireland’s most enchanting wildlife. Featuring striking wildlife sequences set in this fantastical otherworld, the documentary follows its lead character, the elusive but charming pine marten, as her story takes us on a delightful journey through this incredible habitat and the lives of its wild birds and animals.
All programming subject to change a.m. morning p.m. afternoon/evening
6:00 Molly of Denali
6:30 Alma’sWay
7:00 Lyla in the Loop
7:30 Wild Kratts
8:00 DanielTiger's Neighborhood
8:30 Rosie's Rules
9:00 Sesame Street
9:30 Work It Out Wombats!
10:00 Donkey Hodie
10:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific
11:00 ElinorWondersWhy
11:30 Nature Cat
12:00 Curious George
12:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
5:00 BBC News The Context
5:30 BBC News America
6:00 PBS NewsHour
is Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Look for this symbol (AANHPI) throughout the guide to find programs that celebrate the history and heritage of Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders.
7:00 Nature ”Season of the Osprey” Birds of prey exist in myriad shapes and sizes. Scores of eagles, hundreds of hawks and countless kites and falcons have all adapted form and behavior to fit diverse habitats. But in all the world, there is only one osprey.
8:00 A Brief History of the Future “Together”
Throughout history, humans’ unique capacity for cooperation has set us apart. Ari Wallach explores the internal changes we enact that have the potential to impact those around us, our broader communities, and societies.
9:00 NOVA “Making North America: Human” From Ice Age to oil boom, discover the challenges faced and the wealth uncovered as humans take over the continent. How did we turn rocks into riches? And what catastrophic natural disasters could threaten the civilization we’ve built?
10:00 NOVA “Chinese Chariot Revealed” For over 1000 years, chariots thundered across China’s battlefields-dominating warfare longer than anywhere else on earth. Now, a series of amazing archaeological findings enable a team of experts to reconstruct and test China’s first super-weapon.
11:00 Amanpour and Company Christiane Amanpour leads wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on the issues and trends impacting the world each day, from politics, business and technology to arts, science and sports.
7:00 Amache Rose (AANHPI) A rose grows in the high desert of Colorado, planted 80 years ago by prisoners of The Granada Relocation Center, or Camp Amache, a prison camp that operated in Colorado from 1942-1945. Amache Rose tells the story of Japanese incarceration in Colorado and how the people of Amache survived the harsh conditions of Southeastern Colorado in which they were forced to live.
7:30 Fábrica de Arte Américas Fábrica de Arte Américas is a major interdisciplinary creative lab of contemporary art originally founded in Havana, Cuba and brought to Denver as part of the Cities Summit of the Americas. The extraordinary event combines the art of over 100 dancers, musicians and designers from across the Americas, and highlights the tremendously unifying impact art has across cultures.
8:00 Eva’s Promise On a train to Auschwitz, 17-year-old Heinz Geiringer told his sister Eva that he hid the paintings and poetry he created during his time in hiding beneath the attic floorboards. Heinz made Eva promise if he should die in the camps, she would retrieve the artwork.
9:00 The U.S. and the Holocaust “The Golden Door (Beginnings - 1938)” Reversing a history of open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts Congress to restrict immigration. Hitler and the Nazis persecute German Jews, forcing many to seek refuge.
11:30 Amanpour and Company
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3 FRIDAY
7:00 Washington Week with The Atlantic Join award-winning journalists every Friday night in a robust roundtable discussion of the week’s major national news stories.
7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Join author, activist and political commentator Margaret Hoover for a public affairs talk show that delivers a civil and engaging contest of ideas among the brightest minds and freshest voices from across the political spectrum.
8:00 Great Performances “Now Hear This: The Composer Is Yoo” Follow host Scott Yoo’s journey to compose a piece of music for the first time.
9:00 Elton John & Bernie Taupin: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song The incomparable, trail-blazing talents of songwriting duo Elton John and Bernie Taupin are celebrated in Washington, DC’s historic DAR Constitution Hall during an all-star tribute concert.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
4 SATURDAY
5-6:30 Children’s Programs
7:00 Best of the Joy of Painting
7:30 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
8:00 Quilting Arts
8:30 Best of Sewing with Nancy
9:00 Yoga In Practice
9:30 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
10:30 America the Bountiful
11:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
11:30 Cook’s Country
12:00 America’s Test Kitchen
12:30 Homemade Live!
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
1:30 Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board
2:00 Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy
2:30 Weekends with Yankee
3:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love
3:30 Rick Steves’ Europe
4:00 The Legacy List with Matt Paxton
4:30 This Old House
5:00 Ask This Old House
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Doc Martin
7:00 Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
8:30 Death In Paradise
9:30 Midsomer Murders
11:30 Royal Flying Doctor Service
5 SUNDAY
5-9:00 Children’s Programs
9:30 Through Our Eyes
10:00 IndigenizeThe Plate
11:00 Sanditon On Masterpiece
“Season 3, Episode 1”
12:00 Sanditon On Masterpiece
“Season 3, Episode 2”
1:00 Sanditon On Masterpiece
“Season, Episode 3”
2:00 Sanditon On Masterpiece
“Seaosn 3, Episode 4”
3:00 Sanditon On Masterpiece
“Seaosn 3, Episode 5”
4:00 Sanditon On Masterpiece
“Season 3, Episode 6”
5:00 EcoSense for Living “Living Reimagined”
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries
“St. George’s Defence”
7:00 Call the Midwife “Season 13, Episode 8”
8:00 MaryLand On Masterpiece
“Episode 1”
9:00 Guilt On Masterpiece “You Can Take The Boy Out of Leith”
10:00 The Paris Murders “Missing”
11:00 The Paris Murders “Just Before Oblivion”
SERIES PREMIERE
SUN May 5 | 8 p.m.
MaryLand follows two estranged sisters who reunite to unearth the truth about their mother’s sudden death and her double life on the Isle of Man. This is not so much a murder mystery as a compelling tale of two siblings opening up to each other as they work out a string of family secrets. The Guardian (UK) hails MaryLand as “joyful and incredibly affecting.”
6 MONDAY
7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, Part 2” Get wowed by treasures, including a 1953 Marilyn Monroe pin-up poster, a diamond & platinum ring, ca.1960 and a 1910 - 1911 Philadelphia Athletics trophy, card & pin.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow
“Charleston, Part 1” In Charleston, West Virginia, new appraisals include an archive of the Oak Ridge Journal, the newspaper for a town created for the Manhattan Project; and an 1854 Edward Beyer panoramic oil painting that features Charleston before West Virginia separated from Virginia.
9:00 Independent Lens “Space: The Longest Goodbye”
NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation required by a Mars mission, as the crew grapples with the tension between their dream of reaching new frontiers and the basic human need to stay connected to home.
10:30 Tell Me More with Kelly
Corrigan “Being Well in the Modern World”
11:00 Amanpour and Company
7 TUESDAY
7:00 Finding Your Roots “Buried Secrets” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps singer Sammy Hagar and actor Ed O’Neill uncover their roots, revealing secrets their ancestors went to great lengths to conceal and celebrating the virtue of accepting one’s relatives, whoever they may be.
8:00 The Express Way with Dulé Hill “Texas” In Texas, Dulé Hill connects with an Aztec dancer, blind painter and latino theater director, each breaking down barriers and becoming leaders for the next generation.
9:00 Frontline “The Last Survivors” A documentary about some of the last survivors of the Holocaust. Only children at the time, these now elderly survivors reflect on how the trauma of the Holocaust has affected the rest of their lives.
10:00 Asian Americans (AANHPI) “Breaking Ground” See how new immigrants from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond, despite antiAsian laws, still manage to build railroads, dazzle on the silver screen and take their fight for equality to the U.S.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
8 WEDNESDAY
7:00 Nature ”Grizzly 399: Queen of the Tetons” The most famous bear in the Tetons attempts to raise four cubs. But she makes increasingly unexpected and consequential choices to protect her family, Grizzly 399 stands as a symbol of the clash between humans and the wild.
8:00 A Brief History of the Future “Tomorrows” Ari Wallach examines the ways we often see the concept of the future, the crucial need to think much, much bigger about what could come next, and how we all have more personal agency than we realize.
9:00 NOVA “Why Bridges Collapse” In 2018, Italy’s Morandi Bridge collapsed, killing 43 people. NOVA investigates what went wrong and explores other bridge collapses across the United States.
10:00 10 Modern Marvels That Changed America Host Geoffrey Baer takes viewers across the country to the legendary streets, monuments and manmade marvels that changed America.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
GRIZZLY 399: QUEEN OF THE TETONS
WED May 8 | 7 p.m.
Grizzly 399, the most famous bear in Grand Teton National Park, has an exceptional litter of four cubs to raise. Every day, the family must contend with threats to their survival, including a warming climate and human encroachment in bear country. Now the stakes are higher than ever as Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana seek to remove grizzlies from the endangered species list—which would make it legal to hunt them. In a riveting story full of twists and turns, hope and heartbreak, Grizzly 399 stands as a symbol of the clash between humans and the wild.
9 THURSDAY
7:00 Possible Selves: Overcoming
The Odds In Foster Care Possible Selves follows Alex and Mia, two teenagers in foster care, as they pursue college dreams while struggling with lives torn between biological and foster families.
8:00 The U.S. and the Holocaust “Yearning to Breathe Free (1938 - 1942)” As World War II begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Nazi Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape.
10:30 Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan “Good Enough Parenting” Kelly has a conversation with Dr. Dima Amso, professor of psychology at Columbia University, about how the quality of nurture we receive as children influences our well-being in the long term.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
10 FRIDAY
7:00 Washington Week with The Atlantic
7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
8:00 Great Performances
“Hamlet” Experience this Shakespearean classic directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon from The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park starring Tony Award nominee Ato Blankson-Wood.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
11 SATURDAY
5-6:30 Children’s Programs
7:00 Best of the Joy of Painting
7:30 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
8:00 Quilting Arts
8:30 Best of Sewing with Nancy
9:00 Yoga In Practice
9:30 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
10:30 America the Bountiful
11:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
11:30 Cook’s Country
12:00 America’s Test Kitchen
12:30 Homemade Live!
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
1:30 Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board
2:00 Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy
2:30 Weekends with Yankee
3:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love
3:30 Rick Steves’ Europe
4:00 The Legacy List with Matt Paxton
4:30 This Old House
5:00 Ask This Old House
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Doc Martin
7:00 Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
8:30 Death In Paradise
9:30 Midsomer Murders
11:30 Royal Flying Doctor Service
12 SUNDAY
5-9:00 Children’s Programs
9:30 Through Our Eyes
10:00 Bonnie Boswell Presents: Saving Moms
11:00 LucyWorsley Investigates
“The Black Death”
12:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece
“Where The Heart Is”
1:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece
“Semper Progrediens”
2:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece “We Can But Hope”
3:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece “Many Happy Returns”
4:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece “The Last Man In”
5:00 Geothermal: The Heat Beneath Our Feet
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries “A Tight Squeeze”
7:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates
“Madness of King George”
8:00 MaryLand On Masterpiece
“Episode 2”
9:00 Guilt On Masterpiece “Aim High”
10:00 The Paris Murders
“Reminiscences”
11:00 The Paris Murders “From Father to Son”
FRI May 10 | 8 p.m.
Experience this contemporary opera based on Shakespeare’s masterpiece directed by Neil Armfield and composed by Brett Dean. Starring Allan Clayton in the title role, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly as Gertrude, and baritone Rod Gilfry as Claudius.
13 MONDAY
7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, Part 3” Visit Akron, OH for astonishing finds, including a Fox Kids promotion kit, a Thurman Munson-signed baseball, ca. 1975.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow “Charleston, Part 2” In Charleston, West Virginia, features highlights such as a collection of Marilyn Monroe stills from some of her greatest cinematic hits; a British rainbow spatterware pot, ca. 1860, purchased for $10; and an 1849 ship’s log and register.
9:00 Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story (AANHPI) Using his camera as a “weapon against injustice,” photographer Corky Lee’s art is his activism. His images of Asian American life empowered generations. This intimate portrait reveals the triumphs and tragedies of the man behind the lens.
10:00 Asian Americans (AANHPI) “A Question of Loyalty” Meet the first generation of U.S.born Asian Americans, whose loyalties are tested during WWII.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
14 TUESDAY
7:00 Finding Your Roots “Hold
The Laughter” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovers the roots of comedians Bob Odenkirk and Iliza Shlesinger, two very funny people whose family trees brim with dramatic stories, introducing them to relatives who took great risks to overcame enormous hardships.
8:00 The Express Way with Dulé Hill “Chicago” In this episode, Dulé Hill meets the city’s talented artists to explore why art and activism are often synonymous in the Midwest.
9:00 Frontline “A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela” Exposing the shadowy figure at the heart of a corruption scandal spanning from Venezuela to the U.S. With the Venezuelan news outlet, Armando.info, the inside story of Alex Saab.
10:30 Asian Americans (AANHPI) “Good Americans” Learn how Asian Americans are simultaneously heralded as a model minority and targeted as the perpetual foreigner during the Cold War.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
15 WEDNESDAY
7:00 Nature ”Saving The Animals of Ukraine“ From the heart of war-torn Ukraine, stories of survival, love, and resilience emerge beyond the battles.
8:00 NOVA”Secrets In Your Data” Find out who’s using your personal data and what you - and a new kind of web - can do about it.
9:00 Pompeii: The New Dig “The Bodies” Follow the most extensive archaeological excavation in Pompeii for a generation. Nearly two years in the making, with exclusive access to the dig and the allItalian team of archaeologists, the series follows the excavation of an entire city block, unearthing what life was like in Pompeii before the eruption and the horror faced by the victims, and those who survived, when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.
10:00 Ancient Invisible Cities “Athens” Uncover the hidden secrets of ancient Athens, the city that gave the world democracy. Professor Darius Arya uses the latest 3D scanning to reveal Athens’ treasures, from the buildings on the Acropolis to the silver mines and quarries beyond the city.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
SAVING THE ANIMALS OF UKRAINE
WED May 15 | 7 p.m.
Ukrainian YouTuber Anton Ptushkin documents the work that Ukrainian citizens have done to rescue and care for the pets and zoo animals abandoned during the war. Before the invasion in February 2022, Ukraine had the second-highest population of pets per capita in the world. In the face of violence, pets and their owners became symbols of resistance, heroes and frontline volunteers. See how a national tragedy transformed into a global story of incredible devotion and love.
16 THURSDAY
7:00 My Ascension
A suicide attempt left 16-year-old varsity cheerleader Emma Benoit paralyzed, but propelled her on a mission to use her painful experience to help others find hope and stay alive.
8:00 The U.S. and the Holocaust “The Homeless, The TempestTossed (1942 - )” A group of dedicated government officials fights red tape to support rescue operations. As the Allies liberate German camps, the public sees for the first time the sheer scale of the Holocaust and begins to reckon with its reverberations.
10:30 Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan “Many Possible Lives” Kelly invites notable guests to engage in longform conversations about what makes them tick. We also meet the people that motivate and inspire these famous guests.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
17 FRIDAY
7:00 Washington Week with The Atlantic
7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
8:00 Great Performances “Audra McDonald at the London Palladium” Enjoy Broadway hits and more performed by the six-time Tony Award winner including “I Am What I Am,” “Climb Every Mountain,” “Summertime,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” and many more.
9:30 Black Broadway: A Proud History, A Limitless Future Join an all-star cast performing songs from the hit musicals Dreamgirls, Ain’t Misbehavin, The Color Purple, Porgy and Bess and so many more to celebrate the rich history and evolution of Black roles and voices on Broadway. Weaving the history, prominence and hopes for the future through music, the cast is led by Stephanie Mills, Norm Lewis, Corbin Bleu, Niki Renee Daniels, Peppermint, Tiffany Mann and Sydney James Harcourt. Special appearances include Clayton Cornelius, James Monroe Iglehart, Brittany Johnson and many more.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
18 SATURDAY
5-6:30 Children’s Programs
7:00 Best of the Joy of Painting
7:30 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
8:00 Quilting Arts
8:30 Best of Sewing with Nancy
9:00 Yoga In Practice
9:30 Celebrity Antiques RoadTrip
10:30 America the Bountiful
11:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
11:30 Cook’s Country
12:00 America’s Test Kitchen
12:30 Homemade Live!
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
1:30 Lucky Chow
2:00 Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy
2:30 Weekends with Yankee
3:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love
3:30 Rick Steves’ Europe
4:00 The Legacy List with Matt Paxton
4:30 This Old House
5:00 Ask This Old House
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Doc Martin
7:00 Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
8:00 Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
8:50 Death In Paradise
9:45 Midsomer Murders
11:30 Royal Flying Doctor Service
19 SUNDAY
5-9:00 Children’s Programs
9:30 Through Our Eyes
10:00 BeforeTheyTake Us Away (AANHPI)
11:00 LucyWorsley Investigates
“The Witch Hunts”
12:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece “Home Truths”
1:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece “The Perfect Christmas”
2:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece
“Second Time Lucky”
3:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece
“Honeymoon’s Over”
4:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece
“Surviving Siegfried”
5:00 Dogs of War
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries
“Stiff Competition”
7:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates
“Princes in the Tower”
8:00 MaryLand On Masterpiece
“Episode 3”
9:00 Guilt On Masterpiece “Let Them Come”
10:00 The Paris Murders
“Possession”
11:00 The Paris Murders “Smoke and Mirrors”
THE TUBA THIEVES
MON May 20 | 9 p.m.
20 MONDAY
7:00 Antiques Roadshow “Junk in the Trunk 13” Travel to all five cities of ROADSHOW’s Season 28 Tour for never-beforeseen appraisals, including a 1976 Mark Hamill-signed Star Wars poster, a 1979 Bob Ross landscape oil, and a 1973 Iditarod Race sled!
8:00 Antiques Roadshow
“Charleston, Part 3” The final hour in Charleston, West Virginia, features standout appraisals that include a Newcomb College vase, ca. 1905, in need of a good cleaning; an 1875 W.S. Young landscape oil of the Greenbrier River in West Virginia; and a collection of Noel Coward “Sail Away” memorabilia gifted by Coward himself.
9:00 Independent Lens ” The Tuba Thieves” What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these questions.
10:30 Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan “Bad Days, Tough Seasons Or Clinical Depression”
11:00 Amanpour and Company
What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker
Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these questions. Through several deaf people telling stories in a unique game of telephone, the central mystery of The Tuba Thieves isn’t about theft of instruments; it’s about the nature of sound itself.
21 TUESDAY
7:00 Finding Your Roots “Far and Away” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of journalist Sunny Hostin and actor Jesse Williams -- introducing them to ancestors from very diverse places.
8:00 American Experience “The Riot Report” When Black neighborhoods in scores of American cities erupted in violence during the summer of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders - to answer three questions: What happened? Why did it happen? And what could be done to prevent it from happening again?
10:00 Asian Americans (AANHPI) “Generation Rising” Follow a young generation’s fight for equality in the fields, on campuses and in the culture, claiming a new identity: Asian Americans. New immigrants and war refugees expand the population and definition of Asian America.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
22 WEDNESDAY
7:00 Nature ”Green Island, White Desert“ Follow the story of a pine marten as she takes us on a journey through a desert of grey stones called the Burren, home to some of Ireland’s most enchanting wildlife.
8:00 NOVA ”Decoding The Universe: Cosmos” How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how mind-bending discoveries over the past 50 years have revolutionized our understanding of the universe.
9:00 Pompeii: The New Dig “Episode 2” Follow the most extensive archaeological excavation in Pompeii for a generation.
10:00 Ancient Invisible Cities “Cairo“ See how 3D scanning can be used to explore Egypt’s ancient treasures, including the Great Pyramid of Giza and the first pyramid ever built, a hidden Roman fortress, and a well deep in the rock below the Arabic citadel of Saladin.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
23 THURSDAY
7:00 A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps The story of the Peace Corps, a unique U.S. government agency born out of the Cold War and the heady days of the Kennedy administration. To this day, Peace Corps Volunteers redefine how America engages with the rest of the world.
9:00 After Action “Gold Star Service” After Action, hosted by Air Force Veteran Stacy Pearsall, 1-hour episode that captures the raw experiences of veterans around military training, deployment and, most of all, life after action.
10:00 The Ghost Army “Gold Star Service” This program tells the true story of American G.I.s -- many of whom would go on to have illustrious careers in art, design and fashion -- who tricked the enemy with rubber tanks, sound effects and visual illusions during World War II.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
24 FRIDAY
7:00 Washington Week with The Atlantic
7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
8:00 Great Performances “Purlie Victorious” Enjoy this comedic play starring Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. telling the story of a Black preacher’s scheme to reclaim his inheritance and win back his church from a plantation owner. Written by Ossie Davis with direction by Tony winner Kenny Leon.
10:00 Finding Your Roots “Songs of the Past” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. accompanies Broadway stars Leslie Odom, Jr. and Nathan Lane as they meet a cast of inspiring ancestors hidden in the branches of their family trees.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
At 10:30pm on July 27th, 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appeared before the nation in a televised address. For three consecutive summers, disturbances had engulfed Black urban communities across the country, and 1967 was on pace to be the most violent summer yet, with racial disorders already reported in seventy cities. Johnson appointed the eleven-member Kerner Commission to find out what happened, why it happened, and what could be done to prevent it from happening again. The commissioners would hold twenty days of closed-door hearings in Washington and tour twenty-three riot-torn cities. The resulting report, released seven months later, would offer what was arguably the 20th century’s most unvarnished assessment of American race relations: the fundamental cause of urban unrest, the commission had found, was white racism. The Riot Report will explore the evidence and experiences that led the Commission to its then-shocking conclusions.
25 SATURDAY
5-6:30 Children’s Programs
7:00 Best of the Joy of Painting
7:30 Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
8:00 Quilting Arts
8:30 Best of Sewing with Nancy
9:00 Yoga In Practice
9:30 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
10:30 America the Bountiful 11:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
26 SUNDAY
5-9:00 Children’s Programs
9:30 Through Our Eyes
10:00 EcoSense for Living
10:30 HiringVeterans: from Service to Civilian
11:00 All Creatures Great and Small:TouringThe Dales
1:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece “What A Balls Up!”
2:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece
“Edward”
3:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece “For Whom The Bell Tolls”
4:00 All Creatures Great and Small On Masterpiece
“Merry Bloody Christmas”
5:00 We Are Americans
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries
27 MONDAY
7:00 Antiques Roadshow “I Was There” Hear ROADSHOW guests’ stories and see some incredible mementos from their experiences, including Disney animation art, ca. 1938, a 1970 Jimi Hendrix collection, and a Norman Rockwell oil painting and chair, ca. 1952.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow “Albuquerque, Part 1” Discover the treasures of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
9:00 Going to War What is it really like to go to war? For millennia, only warriors could really answer that question. This documentary takes us inside the experience of battle and reveals the soldier’s experiences as never before. War is the ultimate paradox.
ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE: RFDS
SAT May 25 | 11:30 p.m.
Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
3:30 Rick Steves’ Europe
4:00 The Legacy List with Matt Paxton
4:30 This Old House
5:00 Ask This Old House
5:30 PBS News Weekend
6:00 Doc Martin
7:00 Elizabeth Is Missing On Masterpiece
8:30 Death In Paradise
9:30 Midsomer Murders
11:30 Royal Flying Doctor Service
“Dead Air”
7:00 National Memorial Day Concert 2024
8:30 National Memorial Day Concert 2024
10:00 The Paris Murders “In The Spotlight”
11:00 The Paris Murders “Out of the Shadows”
10:00 Pearl Harbor - Into The Arizona On the eve of the 75th anniversary, join the first expedition to explore inside the USS Arizona since the date that will live in infamy, as state-of-the-art imaging technology reveals the aftermath and incredible story of the Pearl Harbor attack.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
SUN May 26 | 7 & 8:30 p.m.
The National Memorial Day Concert honors our country’s veterans, servicemen and women and military families. The concert unites the country in remembrance and appreciation of those who gave their lives for our nation and serves those who are grieving through the mission put forward by Abraham Lincoln in his second inaugural address, “Let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.”
28 TUESDAY
7:00 Finding Your Roots “The Brick Wall Falls” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actor Danielle Brooks and singer Dionne Warwick to their distant ancestors -- breaking down the barriers imposed by slavery.
8:00 Finding Your Roots (AANHPI)
“Children of Exile” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. retraces the ancestral journeys of David Chang and Raul Esparza, whose families fled their homelands, leading them to find lost parts of themselves along the way.
9:00 Frontline “South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning” Allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea’s historic foreign adoption boom.
10:30 Asian Americans (AANHPI)
“Breaking Through” At the turn of the new millennium, the national conversation turns to immigration, race, and economic disparity. As the U.S becomes more diverse, yet more divided, a new generation of Asian Americans tackle the question, how do we as a nation move forward together?
11:00 Amanpour and Company
29 WEDNESDAY
7:00 Nature ”Niagara Falls“ Embark to this geological wonder and witness its stunning beauty and a wide variety of wildlife mammals, birds, and reptiles that call it home.
8:00 NOVA ”Why Ships Crash”
When the colossal Ever Given container ship crashed into the bank of the Suez Canal in March 2021, international supply chains ground to a halt.
9:00 Pompeii: The New Dig
“Episode 3” Follow the most extensive archaeological excavation in Pompeii for a generation.
10:00 Ancient Invisible Cities
“Istanbul“ Take an extraordinary journey through ancient Istanbul, the crossroads of Europe and Asia. Professor Darius Arya uses the latest 3D imaging technology to see the city and its often invisible treasures as no human eye ever could.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
30 THURSDAY
7:00 Colorado Voices “Our World” Colorado Voices: Our World features the people, places, and climate solutions defining the future of our local and regional ecosystems.
7:30 Bluebird Sky Bluebird Sky peeks into the lives of Danny and Annaliese, two young farmers in their second year of operation in Boulder County, Colorado.
8:00 USS Indianapolis Live - from the Deep Take a live tour of the wreckage from the USS Indianapolis, the WWII vessel lying at the bottom of the Pacific since its sinking in 1945.
9:00 USS Indianapolis: The Final Chapter Follow a scientific detective story detailing the discovery of the USS Indianapolis wreck site, 18,000 feet below the Philippine Sea.
10:30 Homecoming: Sgt. Hamilton’s Long Journey
Sgt. Vernon Hamilton was a 19-year-old Army Air Corps engineer-gunner from Monongahela, Pennsylvania, whose plane was shot down over Germany during World War II.
11:00 Amanpour and Company
31 FRIDAY
7:00 Washington Week with The Atlantic
7:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
8:00 Great Performances
“Rodgers & Hammerstein’s 80th Anniversary: My Favorite Things” Explore the vast repertoire of these musical theater pioneers in a starstudded concert featuring Aaron Tveitt, Patrick Wilson and more performing from shows like “Carousel,” “South Pacific,” “The King and I,” “The Sound of Music” and more.
10:00 Great Performances
“Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway’s Best” Enjoy a revue of milestone Broadway shows and songs from 1973 to 2023 hosted by two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster. Features performances by André De Shields, Chita Rivera, Vanessa Williams and more from Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater.
The final season for Tom Brittney as he steps down from his role as beloved Vicar Will Davenport. A new Vicar is in town, Alphy Kotteram, played by Rishi Nair. A change
the Vicar is a big deal in Grantchester so our fans will be waiting with bated breath.
