PBS PRIMETIME PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
WEEK OF MAY 1-7, 2011
Program photos, releases and videos for selected shows available on PBS PressRoom® (http://www.pbs.org/pressroom).
In this week’s highlights:
1. On-air Picks of the Week
2. New on the PBS Video Portal
3. PBS Primetime Schedule, Sunday-Saturday
On-air Picks of the Week
- · *NEW* NATURE “Salmon: Running the Gauntlet” airs Sunday, May 1, 2011 @ 8:00 p.m. ET. Preview the full program NOW on PBS PressRoom.
- · *NEW*ROADS TO MEMPHIS: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE airs Monday, May 2, 2011 @ 9:00 p.m. ET. Preview the full film NOW on PBS PressRoom.
- · *NEW* BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA “Brazil: A Racial Paradise?” airs Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 8:00 p.m. ET. Preview the full series NOW on PBS PressRoom.
New on the PBS Video Portal
- · Check out NOVA “Japan’s Killer Quake” – now available in full on the PBS Video Portal
- · Also new on the PBS Video Portal is FRONTLINE “Money and March Madness”
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SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2011
8:00-9:00 PM:
*NEW* NATURE “Salmon: Running the Gauntlet” (#2812) (TV-G) (HD)
Preview the full program NOW on PBS PressRoom.
NATURE goes beyond the ongoing debate over how to save an endangered species to expose a wildly creative, hopelessly complex and stunningly expensive approach to managing salmon.
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/n/NATURE.aspx
9:00-10:00 PM:
Rpts. 5/6/11, 9:30-10:30 p.m. ET
*NEW* *MINISERIES PREMIERE* MASTERPIECE CLASSIC “South Riding” (#4111) (TV-14, S) (HD)
Series short listing:
A lively heroine arrives in Depression-era Yorkshire to shake up education at a school for girls, sparking conflict with a stern landowner. Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey and Penelope Wilton star. Laura Linney hosts.
“Episode 1”
Ambitious teacher Sarah Burton (Anna Maxwell Martin) returns to her Yorkshire origins to apply for the job of headmistress at the local girl’s school. Landowner Robert Carne (David Morrissey) mistrusts all she stands for. Penelope Wilton also stars. Part 1 of 3.
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/m/MASTERPIECE.aspx
10:00-11:00 PM:
*NEW* IRENA SENDLER: IN THE NAME OF THEIR MOTHERS (TV-PG) (HD-Upconverted)
During WWII, a group of young Polish women outfoxed the Nazis and rescued thousands of Jewish children from certain death.
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/i/IRENA-SENDLER-IN-THE-NAME-OF-THEIR-MOTHERS.aspx
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MONDAY, MAY 2, 2011
8:00-9:00 PM:
Rpts. 5/5/11, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
*NEW* ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Biloxi” (Hour One) (#1513) (TV-G) (HD)
A look at the eccentric pottery of George Ohr; a Walter Anderson linocut; an 1899 “Buffalo Bill” poster; and a 1928 Art Deco, bronze sculpture of dancers from the Russian Ballet. Mark L. Wahlberg hosts.
Preview full programs of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW now: http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/a/ANTIQUES-ROADSHOW.aspx
9:00-10:30 PM:
ROADS TO MEMPHIS: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (#2207) (TV-PG, L) (HD) (R)
Preview the full film NOW on PBS PressRoom.
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/a/AMERICAN-EXPERIENCE.aspx
10:30-11:30 PM:
MUHAMMAD ALI: MADE IN MIAMI (TV-PG) (HD) (R)
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/m/MUHAMMAD-ALI–MADE-IN-MIAMI.aspx
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TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2011
8:00-9:00 PM:
*NEW* BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA “Brazil: A Racial Paradise?” (#103) (TV-PG) (HD)
Preview the full series NOW on PBS PressRoom.
Series short listing:
Travel with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. as he uncovers the African roots in six Latin-American countries. Four-part series.
“Brazil: A Racial Paradise?”
In Brazil, Professor Gates delves behind the façade of Carnival to discover how this “rainbow nation” is waking up to its legacy as the world’s largest slave economy. Part 3 of 4.
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/b/BLACK-IN-LATIN-AMERICA.aspx
9:00-10:00 PM:
FRONTLINE (HD) (EXEMPT)
TBD
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/f/FRONTLINE.aspx
10:00-11:30 PM:
*NEW* INDEPENDENT LENS “A Film Unfinished” (#1221) (TV-14) (HD)
This haunting film about a film examines a classic Nazi propaganda film used by historians for decades to provide insight into the realities of life in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942.
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/i/INDEPENDENT-LENS.aspx
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2011
8:00-9:00 PM:
*NEW* SECRETS OF THE DEAD “China’s Terracotta Warriors” (#1103) (TV-PG, V) (HD)
SECRETS OF THE DEAD reveals that the Chinese may have had Henry Ford beat by more than 2,000 years with their own assembly line used to produce 8,000 lavishly painted terracotta warriors.
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/s/SECRETS-OF-THE-DEAD.aspx
9:00-10:00 PM:
NOVA “Ghosts of Machu Picchu” (#3704) (TV-PG, V) (HD) (R)
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/n/NOVA.aspx
10:00-11:00 PM:
*NEW* SAVING THE BAY “Miracle Workers” (#103) (TV-G) (HD)
The third hour of the series about the San Francisco Bay, spanning 1906 to 1959, begins with The Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, which accelerated the dispersion of people and industry to the East Bay region. Advances in engineering gave rise to the first of California’s massive water re-distribution projects, paralleling the era of great bridge building. World War II saw the bay transformed into the greatest shipbuilding center the world had ever known.
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/s/SAVING-THE-BAY.aspx
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THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2011
8:00-9:00 PM:
Rpt. of 5/2/11, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Biloxi” (Hour One) (#1513) (TV-G) (HD) (R)
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/a/ANTIQUES-ROADSHOW.aspx
9:00-10:30 PM:
*NEW* THOROUGHBRED (TV-PG) (HD)
Preview the full program NOW on PBS PressRoom.
THOROUGHBRED takes a fascinating look at the world of distinctive horses through the eyes of the people who breed, sell, race and love them.
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/t/THOROUGHBRED.aspx
10:30-11:30 PM:
THE THIS OLD HOUSE HOUR (#905) (TV-G) (HD)
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/t/THE-THIS-OLD-HOUSE-HOUR.aspx
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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011
8:00-8:30 PM:
*NEW* WASHINGTON WEEK WITH GWEN IFILL AND NATIONAL JOURNAL (#5045) (EXEMPT) (HD)
WASHINGTON WEEK, PBS’ longest-running public affairs series, features Washington’s top journalists analyzing the week’s top news stories and their effect on the lives of all Americans. Gwen Ifill hosts.
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/w/WASHINGTON-WEEK-WITH-GWEN-IFILL-AND-NATIONAL-JOURNAL.aspx
8:30-9:30 PM:
*NEW* NEED TO KNOW (#152) (EXEMPT) (HD)
NEED TO KNOW is a cross-media news and public affairs magazine that culls stories from the best of the week’s online reporting, culminating in a one-hour on-air broadcast every Friday night on PBS. The NEED TO KNOW website updates all week; more info on the site: http://www.pbs.org/need-to-know/
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/n/NEED-TO-KNOW.aspx
9:30-10:30 PM:
MASTERPIECE CLASSIC “South Riding (#4111) (TV-14, S) (HD) (R)
Rpt. of 5/1/11, 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/m/MASTERPIECE.aspx
10:30-11:00 PM:
WASHINGTON WEEK WITH GWEN IFILL AND NATIONAL JOURNAL (#5045) (EXEMPT) (HD) (R)
Rpt. of 8:00-8:30 p.m. ET
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/w/WASHINGTON-WEEK-WITH-GWEN-IFILL-AND-NATIONAL-JOURNAL.aspx
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SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2011
9:00-10:00 PM:
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS “K’naan/Mos Def” (#3510) (TV-PG) (HD) (R)
