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Watch Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026 at 11: 30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with YouTube (not in KPBS+ app). Guest: David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee. When USAID closed last year, it was the beginning of the collapse of the international relief system. Now we're seeing the effects during some major crises. David Miliband joins Ian Bremmer to discuss the shock to the aid system and what comes next.

Watch Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 (Not in the KPBS+ app). In 1918, artist Rockwell Kent left New York for Alaska’s remote Fox Island. Facing failure at home, he risked everything to find inspiration in the wilderness. Amid storms, solitude, and a deepening bond with his young son, Kent created the art that launched his enduring career.

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. Ground Zero— the area within 500 meters of the hypocenter in Hiroshima where the atom bomb was dropped. Yet even here, 78 people miraculously survived. Based on their 110 hours of interviews, their shocking experiences and the things they saw are scientifically visualized with help from the latest technology and computer graphics.

Stream with KPBS+ / Watch Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV. Celebrate the life and career of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Mary Oliver. Shaped by a solitary childhood and rising literary fame, Oliver published more than 30 collections of poetry and essays on nature, beauty, and love.

If Watchmen taught us that you can use superheroes to excavate the cracked foundations of the American experience, Lanterns seems content to linger in the shadow of another HBO prestige genre series, True Detective.

Two weeks after being nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Wonder Man, Abdul-Mateen found out that the series had been cancelled. He says Marvel could do more to support Black-led projects.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. How online scams steal billions of dollars and ruin victims’ lives. With The Associated Press, the rise of a global criminal industry, the people and technology enabling it, and the efforts to shut it down.

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV. The biography 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. The film 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.

Watch Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Watch missions on YouTube. Follow husband and wife team, Ken Wayne and Carole Moshetti, as they travel California to rescue wild and domestic animals, highlighting the caregivers who help them return animals to the wild or into new homes.

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. Following the 40% decline of our planet's tallest animal, one South African scientist is undertaking the expedition of a lifetime — to safely GPS-collar 20 giraffes, in one of the most ambitious conservation projects ever attempted — in order to preserve giraffe genetics before they succumb to a looming, silent extinction.