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Schedule Highlights November 9 to November 15
Monday, November 9
Antiques Roadshow - Thrifty Deals Roadshow discovers items acquired on the cheap by guests who scored big combing the shelves of thrift shops and other secondhand stores, including Torino robot lamps, ca. 1970 and a Lee Pho oil, ca.1950. One treasure reaches $200K! 7:00 pm
Pati Jinich Explores PanAmericana - Arizona - Abundance in the Desert Pati travels through Arizona's Sonoran Desert. She finds Chinese chorizo, desert noir music, street poetry, and a baseball team drawn from tribes across the country. Together they reveal a desert defined not by scarcity, but by abundance. 8:00 pm
Made In Texas - The Melody Maids This documentary shines a spotlight on an all-girl teenage singing group from Beaumont, TX. From 1942 to 1972, some 1,500 Melody Maids traveled to military bases and hospitals around the world, bringing their stellar voices, hometown smiles, goodwill, and moral support to soldiers immersed in the war efforts of the day. Led by local music teacher Eloise Milam, the core theme of the Melody Maids was Morals, Manners, and Music. This singing group ventured into an array of challenges presented by the performance missions they embarked upon. From distant and remote military locations to travel conditions that were at times unimaginable, Eloise Milam and her Melody Maids raised the bar to American Hero level. 9:00 pm
Medicine Ball Medicine Ball follows Native college athletes Lexus Redthunder and Leroy Staples-Fairbanks IV at a university built on a former Native boarding school site, revealing basketball's role as a source of resilience, hope and cultural pride. 9:30 pm
Tuesday, November 10
We Chose to Go to the Moon Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, historian John Monsky tells the exhilarating story of America's journey to the Moon and the heroes in and outside of NASA who made it possible. Featuring iconic music from the 1960s and '70s performed by Broadway stars and a live orchestra, alongside rare archival imagery and historic flags, this living documentary brings the Space Race vividly to life. 7:00 pm
Frontline - Coal’s Human Cost Coal miners are suffering from incurable lung disease at the highest rates in nearly 50 years. With NPR, Public Health Watch and Kentucky Public Radio, how industry and government have failed to protect miners in Appalachia from black lung disease. 9:00 pm
Wednesday, November 11
Nature - Humanlike: The Chimps of Fongoli On the southern edge of the Sahara in Fongoli, Senegal, lives a group of remarkable chimpanzees that could hold clues to how we became human. The Fongoli chimps live at the very limits where chimps can survive, having adapted to the extreme heat and dryness of the savanna woodlands. For years, these chimps were elusive ghosts, rarely seen. NATURE traces the remarkable 25-year story of how American anthropologist Jill Pruetz and local chimp expert Dondo Johnny Kante got so close to the Fongoli chimps to uncover unique behavior, including hunting with spears, sheltering in caves, digging wells, and reading fire. Seeing into their secret lives and recording extraordinary new behaviors shine a light on our own evolutionary past and fundamentally change how we think about ourselves. 7:00 pm
Nova - Evolution: On the Run Billions of years ago, the twitch of the first muscle cells ignited a revolution of purposeful movement. Take a wild evolutionary ride from these early aquatic ancestors to highly-optimized runners like the horse, whose story is linked to our own. 8:00 pm
Secrets of the Dead - Finding America’s Fallen A unique archaeological dig is happening in South Carolina, where veterans are investigating the site of the Battle of Camden and exploring how the Continental soldiers' devastating loss there turned the tide of the American Revolution. Now, these former soldiers want to give Camden's fallen their due. 9:00 pm
Thursday, November 12
Overheard with Evan Smith - Jacob Weisberg Jacob Weisberg is the co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries and the former editor of Slate. He discusses his newest book Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era. 7:30 pm
The Daytripper - Kyle, TX The "Pie Capital of Texas" is a slice of heaven. Chet starts with pie for breakfast and finishes with Frito pie for dinner. Along the way, he plays disc golf at the strangest course in Texas, swims in the Blanco River, and learns the history of this railroad town. 8:00 pm
The American Buffalo - Into the Storm By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions is teetering on the brink of extinction. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever. 8:30 pm
Friday, November 13
- Great Performances - Romeo & Juliet Experience the Bard's classic from the Public Theater's new Free Shakespeare in the Park staging set in the fictional border town of Verona, where Romeo and Juliet speak to each other in Spanish, the language of their private world. 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 14
Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove - Rahm Emanuel Rahm Emanuel has served as White House Advisor to Bill Clinton, a Congressman, White House Chief of Staff for Barack Obama, Mayor of Chicago, and Joe Biden's US Ambassador to Japan. He reflects on his productive career, his realization of the American Dream and its the growing inaccessibility today, and the state of American democracy. 6:00 pm
Austin City Limits - Sebastian Yatra Colombian-American singer-songwriter Sebastian Yatra, a global ambassador of modern Latin pop, lights up the ACL stage. The multiple Latin Grammy Award winner and Grammy nominee performs fan favorites and highlights from his acclaimed album Milagro. 7:00 pm
Bergerac When a member of one of Jersey's wealthiest families is murdered, Chief of Police Uma Dalal wants their best detective on the case. Bergerac returns to work to not only crack the case but to prove to his daughter and mother-in-law that his life is back on track. If Bergerac can solve the case, then maybe he can also show he's capable of being a good father. 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 15
Texas Monthly Presents: The Story - On Their Own Terms A rural radio DJ finds connection with an unexpected audience, NASA researchers study isolation in space, and an exonerated man rebuilds his community in the town that once turned against him. 6:00 pm
Professor T - Cipher A brutal murder on a golf course, cryptic ciphers and rising tensions put Jasper, Maiya and Dan in the crosshairs as loyalties fracture and fears of a serial killer grow. 7:00 pm
Maigret on Masterpiece - The Yellow Dog, Part One After a wealthy businessman is killed, Guichard assigns the case to Maigret, who realizes the key lies in a case from 15 years ago. Maigret must trust his instincts, despite pressure from superiors and his own team, to find the real killer. 8:00 pm
Gold on Masterpiece - Episode 5 With old and new Brink's-Mat criminals hiding around the world, police and criminal rivals close in from all fronts as the final chase for the stolen gold begins. 9:00 pm
Downton Abbey Season 5 On Masterpiece - Episode One A working-class prime minister is elected. Robert is snubbed by the village. Edith plays with fire. 10:00 pm
Astrid - One Wedding and Four Funerals On a film set, an actor dies from fake bullets. Astrid and Raphaelle suspect a vengeful director lashing out at the man his wife was having an affair with, but is there more to the plot? 11:10 pm