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Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Saturday, March 28, 2026 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Encores Saturday, March 28 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, March 29 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Grab a front-row seat as the consummate performer fields call-in requests for his greatest hits in a live broadcast from 1996. Classics performed include “Mandy,” “Copacabana,” and “I Write The Songs,” interspersed with stories and chats with fans. -
Premieres Monday, March 30, 2026 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. ROADSHOW visits charming Charlevoix, Mich. in search of treasures including a Tiffany Studios Turtleback diver’s lamp, ca. 1905, John George Brown’s Making Houses of Sand oil, ca. 1880, and a Chinese silk dragon panel, ca. 1775. One is $150K. -
Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. Wikipedia helped shape the internet, but can it survive today's culture wars, misinformation, and Big Tech dominance? Ian Bremmer talks with cofounder Jimmy Wales about trust, neutrality, the Gaza page controversy, and AI's influence. -
Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV. This film tells the story of Frances Perkins, who was appointed Labor Secretary by FDR during the Great Depression. The first female Cabinet member, she created the Social Security program, the federal minimum wage, the 40-hour work week, and ended the legal use of child labor. Featuring interviews with Nancy Pelosi, George Mitchell, David Brooks, Lawrence O’Donnell and Amy Klobuchar. -
Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Tuesday, March 24, 2026 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. The film tells a story of adversity, personal tragedy and triumphs using rarely heard archival interviews and new interviews with historians, sports writers, NFL alumni, friends and descendants -
Premieres Tuesday, March 24, 2026 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. Told by operatives in the rooms where it happened, this film is a deep dive into the decades-long quest by some of America’s conservative political machine to amass power by exploiting racial fault lines. -
Premieres Monday, March 23, 2026 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+ / Encore Wednesday, March 25 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2. Treasures abound in Midcoast Maine during ROADSHOW's stop in Boothbay including cast-iron lobster andirons, ca. 1880, a 1965 Roy Lichtenstein Shipboard Girl offset lithograph, and a Japanese bronze lantern, ca. 1909. Which find is $60K? -
Premieres Tuesday, March 24, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+ / Encores Thursday, April 2 at 6 a.m. on KPBS 2 and Saturday, April 4 at 9 a.m. on KPBS 2. Online sports gambling has exploded. In BREAKING THE DEADLOCK "Gambling with Your Life," moderator Aaron Tang guides panelists through scenarios to explore dilemmas around online sports gambling, and its impact on young men. -
Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Encores Monday, March 23 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 and 9 p.m. on KPBS TV. The story of a 1950s teenager who became forever famous in Bonita by creating make-believe creatures that are preserved to this day. We celebrate the secret stairs of San Diego; recall a classic downtown diner from decades ago; remember the cost of things during World War II, plus a quiz About San Diego, and things sent in by viewers. -
Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. After a dramatic initial strike, the U.S. and Israel have pushed competing strategies while Tehran has spread chaos in the Gulf. With no clear end in sight, and spiking death toll and oil prices, what is President Trump's way out?
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