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Schedule Highlights May 11 to May 17

Monday, May 11

  • Antiques Roadshow - Grant’s Farm, Hour 3 Catch a crop of ROADSHOW discoveries at Grant's Farm, including a Cartier Art Deco Tutti Frutti clutch, ca. 1925, a Carl Kauba cowboy bronze, ca. 1900, and a Sumerian cuneiform tablet, ca. 2150 BCE. One find has a value of $30K -$100K! 7:00 pm

  • Antiques Roadshow - Santa Fe’s Museum Hill, Hour 3 It's antique treasures galore at Santa Fe's Museum Hill with finds including Green Bay Packers salesman's sample championship rings, Barbie dolls & wardrobe, ca. 1960 and a 1977 Keith Haring Bean Salad lithograph. Which is up to $200,000? 8:00 pm

  • Made In Texas - A Way of Life: East Texas Cowboys The East Texas cowboys, with the help of their remarkable cow dogs, carry on a unique tradition, forged in the forests, soggy bottomlands and pastures of the region. This feature-length documentary from Curtis Craven, A Way of Life: The East Texas Cowboys, follows a group of daywork cowboys and their dogs, a family of horse trainers, and the controlled chaos of an auction house located in the heart of Texas cow-calf country. Craven's storytelling sheds light on the often-unknown world of the East Texas Cowboy. 9:00 pm

  • Independent Lens - Natchez In a Mississippi town, historic homes fuel a tourism economy rooted in antebellum nostalgia. Through tour guides, homeowners, and activists, Natchez captures how public history is performed and how unresolved racial tensions have shaped the town. 10:00 pm

Tuesday, May 12

  • Finding Your Roots - Far From Home Cyndi Lauper, Jamie Chung, and Danny Trejo discover their family tree with Henry Louis Gates. 7:00 pm

  • Finding Your Roots - Larger Than Life Henry Louis Gates, Jr. connects Lea Salonga & Amanda Seyfried to their dramatic ancestors. 8:00 pm

  • On Story - A Conversation with Michael Arndt This week on On Story, Michael Arndt, the Academy Award winning screenwriter behind Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, joins us to share his strategies for story mapping, creating a convincing villain, and writing a great ending. 10:00 pm

Wednesday, May 13

  • Nature - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon Join Sir David Attenborough as he pieces together the remarkable discovery of the Ichthyosaur, a fearsome fish lizard that lived during the age of dinosaurs. 7:00 pm

  • NOVA - Decoding the Universe: Quantum Discover the world of the subatomic realm in the quantum universe. 8:00 pm

  • Shared Planet - Forests Forests are the lungs of our planet, yet millions of hectares vanish every year. Journey from Guatemala to Japan to meet the pioneers sharing space with wildlife and restoring the way we coexist and cultivate among the trees. 9:00 pm

Thursday, May 14

  • Overheard with Evan Smith - Emil Wakim Comedian Emil Wakim discusses his career and how he made history as the first Lebanese-American cast member of “Saturday Night Live” during SNL’s milestone 50th season. __7:30 pm __

  • High School Quiz Show - Championship A winner is crowned as the Liberal Arts and Science Academy takes on Round Rock High School in the championship round of High School Quiz Show: Austin. 8:00 pm

  • The Daytripper - Elgin, TX Chet heads to the "Sausage Capital of Texas" to explore its meat-stuffed culture. He explores downtown from coffee to vintage coats. He visits one of Texas's largest wildlife rescue centers and finishes up at a classic Texas dance hall. 8:30 pm

  • Discovering Judi Dench The biography Discovering Judi Dench looks at the remarkable on-screen cinematic career of Dame Judi Dench. She has been a prominent figure in British culture for decades, with an extraordinary and varied film career that earned her both Academy and BAFTA Awards. This program highlights some of her most memorable roles in several beloved films, including Mrs. Brown, Philomena, Tea with Mussolini, Chocolat, Iris, Pride and Prejudice, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Victoria & Abdul and her iconic stint as M in multiple James Bond films. 9:00 pm

Friday, May 15

  • Great Performances - Top Hat Enjoy this acclaimed musical inspired by the 1935 movie starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers featuring a timeless score by Irving Berlin including classics like "Cheek to Cheek," "Let's Face the Music and Dance" and "Puttin' on the Ritz. 8:00 pm

Saturday, May 16

  • Central Texas Gardener - Naturally Beautiful Organic gardening champion John Dromgoole explores how we make a difference in climate challenges. 12:00 pm

  • Austin City Limits - Jelly Roll/The War and Treaty Nashville sensations Jelly Roll and The War And Treaty thrill in an electrifying hour. Jelly Roll performs highlights from his breakthrough smash Whitsitt Chapel and celebrated husband-and-wife duo The War And Treaty thrill with powerhouse vocals. 7:00 pm

  • Dalgliesh - A Certain Justice, Parts 1 & 2 Dalgliesh, Kate Miskin, and new D.S. Daniel Tarrant investigate the murder of an abrasive female defense barrister who successfully defended a shady young man on murder charges, only for him to begin dating her daughter. Part Two: As Dalgliesh's team sorts out the complicated motives surrounding the victim's murder, they are running out of time to save her daughter from her dangerous fiancé. 8:00 pm

Sunday, May 17

  • The Great Escaper on Masterpiece Follow the daring escape of Bernard Jordan, an 89-year-old WWII veteran, to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings. Driven by love and the memory of fallen comrades, this true story is a tribute to heroism, healing, and remembrance. 7:00 pm

  • Downton Abbey on Masterpiece - Episode 1 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. 9:00 pm

  • The Puzzle Lady Episode: 4 The Puzzle Lady discovers a dark conspiracy at the heart of Bakerbury.10:30 pm

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