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Schedule Highlights May 18 to May 24

Antiques Roadshow - Junk in the Trunk 15 Visit all five cities from Roadshow's celebratory Season 30 for never-before-seen finds, including a 1961 JFK Santa Claus Letter, a 1979 Ed Ruscha Stage Fright ink on paper, and a John Juzek violin, ca.1950. Guess the hour's big find! 7:00 pm
Reel South - Night In West Texas After a gay Apache man is convicted of murdering a closeted priest in 1981 West Texas, new leadership in Odessa reopens the case four decades later. Unprocessed fingerprints and emerging suspects expose corruption, homophobia, and racism. Embedding with the Innocence Project, the film follows a rare alliance seeking justice in a state where exoneration is painfully rare. 9:00 pm
Independent Lens - Light of the Setting Sun After a family member has a mental breakdown, filmmaker Vicky Du traces generational trauma rooted in her family's displacement during China's 1949 revolution. Across Taiwan and New Jersey, she explores if healing can break the mental illness cycle. 10:00 pm

American Masters - W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel with a Cause Explore the life and legacy of the notable Black scholar and civil rights pioneer. Born just five years after the Emancipation Proclamation and passing away on the eve of March in Washington in 1963, his legacy as an activist still resonates today. 8:00 pm
On Story - The Writer Producer Relationship with Christine Vachon & Celine Song This week on ON STORY, Academy Award-nominated writer-director Celine Song, and prolific independent film producer Christine Vachon join us to discuss the creative relationship between writers and producers, and to share their experience collaborating on Past Lives and Materialists. 10:00 pm

Nature - Attenborough’s Wonder of Song As humankind gets noisier, the beautiful songs of the humpback whale are being downed out. 7:00 pm
NOVA - When Whales Could Walk Egyptian desert fossils reveal clues to the evolution of the biggest animals on Earth. 8:00 pm
Shared Planet - Waters From the reefs of Indonesia to an Idaho beaver dam, dive into the stories of people setting a new standard for aquatic wildlife protection, key to a hopeful future for the largest and most essential habitat on our planet. 9:00 pm

Overheard with Evan Smith - Pamela Colloff Journalist Pamela Colloff is a reporter at ProPublica and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. She discusses her book “Catch the Devil,” the criminal justice system and a con man in Florida who weaponized it. 7:30 pm
The Daytripper - Palo Pinto Mountains Chet explores the area surrounding Texas's newest State Park. He eats a legendary (and huge) chicken fried steak and explores a once-thriving coal town that's now just ghosts. He finishes up with homemade rolls and chicken livers. 8:30 pm

Price of Paradise At the age of 55, Lindamae Lawelawe Carillo Maldonado discovered the truth about her identity and the existence of her birth family. She was born on the Island of Moloka'i on the peninsula of Kalaupapa, where people suspected of having Hansen's Disease (leprosy) were isolated. Lindamae was among the many children taken away from their mothers at birth and placed for adoption. In the hour-long documentary Price of Paradise, Lindamae and her newly discovered family set out to uncover the truth behind their forced separation. Their journey sheds light on a little-known chapter of Hawaiian history that reflects the exploitation of the islands and the erasure of cultural identity. 8:00 pm
Great Performances - An Evening with Nicole Scherzinger Nicole Scherzinger returns to London for a solo concert at Royal Albert Hall. 9:00 pm

Austin City Limits - Chris Stapleton Ten-time Grammy-winning country superstar Chris Stapleton delivers a scorching hour of country-rock classics and gems from his latest LP Higher in a performance for the ages. One of music's biggest live acts, Stapleton brings a stadium show to ACL. 7:00 pm
Dalgliesh - The Murder Room, Parts 1 & 2 Marcus and Caroline struggle to convince their brother, Neville, to renew their family's lease for the museum. Neville's car is torched on the museum grounds, and he perishes inside. There are suspects, including his siblings. In part two, the grisly discovery provides a new inquiry that leads to a hidden room, Ties to intelligence agents, and a scandalous society at the heart of the museum. The team races to crack the case as the killer prepares to strike again. 8:00 pm & 8:45 pm
The Brokenwood Mysteries - The Power of Steam Shepherd and his team are drawn into a world of Victorian costumes and science fiction when they investigate a death at a gathering of steam punk enthusiasts. The victim was a prejudiced man who was killed in an explosion during a fireworks display, but was he the intended target? 9:33 pm

National Memorial Day Concert 2026 America's national night of remembrance live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol brings us together as one family of Americans to honor the service of generations of our men and women in uniform, our military families, with a special Semiquincentennial segment honoring all those who have given their lives in service to our nation since its founding 250 years ago. Hosted by Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna and Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise, the 2026 concert features personal stories and tributes interwoven with musical performances by world-renowned artists and the National Symphony Orchestra to commemorate the real meaning of the holiday. 7:00 pm
Downton Abbey on Masterpiece - Episode 2 When the Titanic goes down, Lord Grantham loses his immediate heirs and his daughter Mary loses her fiance, throwing Downton Abbey and its servants into turmoil. The new heir turns out to be Matthew, a lowly lawyer with novel ideas about country life. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Dame Maggie Smith and Elizabeth McGovern. 10:00 pm